Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai was being hailed by supporters as the city’s “conscience” on Monday after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on national security charges. Once a penniless teenage refugee who arrived in Hong Kong as a stowaway, Mr Lai rose to become one of the city’s … Read more
By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s most prominent media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to a total of 20 years in prison on national security charges that include two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditious materials. The … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memo to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington lawyer Mark Zaid, ruling that the order – which also targeted 14 other individuals – could not be applied to him. The decision marked the administration’s second legal setback on … Read more