the backstory on Jimmy Lai's actions can be found here: wikipedia.
In December 2020, Lai was awarded the "Freedom of Press Award" by Reporters Without Borders for his role in founding Apple Daily, a news outlet under Lai's pro-democracy leadership that "still dares to openly criticise the Chinese regime and which widely covered last year's pro-democracy protests."[15][16] On 29 December, Lai resigned from his roles with Next Digital as director and chairman of the board.[17][18] In April 2021, he was sentenced to an additional 14 months in prison for organizing illegal protests
this video is from a conservative Washington think tank, from 2020:
and the communists insist he is a threat to the government and a proxy for foreign bad guys.
video from DW, a German news station, from this January
this 2022 BBC article discusses others arrested under the same law, including Cardinal Zen.
Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Erwin van der Borght said in a statement that the arrests represent a “shocking escalation” even by “Hong Kong’s recent standards of worsening repression,” and demonstrates the Hong Kong authorities’ “callous disregard for the basic rights of its citizens.”
since Cardinal Zen (who is not in jail) is going around blasting Pope Francis for his shennanigans in giving away the Catholic church in China to the communist government, and also blasting the Pope for his stealth shennanigans pushing heresy in the synodality farce, you can see he is still a gadfly.
so why worry about a millionaire who buys a media site to push for freedom of speech against a government that is destroying the ability of people to be free?
well, just look at the full court press against Elon Musk in Brazil, Australia, the EU and the USA for the sins of permitting freedom of speech.
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