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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under China's security law
Associated Press via Spectrum Local News ^ | 12/12/2020

Posted on 12/12/2020 9:10:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Edited on 12/12/2020 11:41:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city’s national security law as authorities step up a crackdown on dissent, local media reported.

Lai, who founded the Apple Daily tabloid, was charged on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces and endangering national security, local broadcaster TVB reported Friday. He is the most high-profile person out of more than two dozen charged under the sweeping law since it was imposed by Beijing in June.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communism; communists; gutteras; hongkong; jimmylai; prc

HONG KONG MEDIA TYCOON CHARGED UNDER CHINA's NATIONAL SECURITY LAW


1 posted on 12/12/2020 9:10:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And now we are Hong Kong also.


2 posted on 12/12/2020 9:20:14 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Scott Adans just got that treatment here.

Not jail yet here in all cases, but wait.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3914795/posts


3 posted on 12/12/2020 9:22:06 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

America too is being “Chinesed”.

Don’t know if that’s word but it is now.


4 posted on 12/12/2020 9:30:43 AM PST by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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To: Boomer

Chicommed


5 posted on 12/12/2020 9:44:40 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a huge escalation and extremely ominous sign. Everything about the national security law is bad, but Jimmy Lai is a extremely well-known public figure, and has been anti-CCP since he started his media empire in the 80s.

Hong Kong is officially dead.

China will begin to seriously tighten the screws on Taiwan, especially as the US is tied up with its own internal political problems.


6 posted on 12/12/2020 9:51:34 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Coming to a town near you...

Thanks Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.


7 posted on 12/12/2020 11:25:03 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: PGR88

Hong Kong isn’t dead, but it is getting really sick.


8 posted on 12/12/2020 11:26:14 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no justice until PIAPPS is hanging from a gallows.)
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To: Boomer

I propose the words “Chinafy”, “Chinafying”, “Chinafied”, etc.


9 posted on 12/12/2020 12:51:20 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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