Shuttered Hong Kong Pro Democracy Paper Apple Daily And Founder Jimmy

Jun 23, 2021 The paper's founder Jimmy Lai is already in detention facing charges under the security law. On Wednesday afternoon, the paper announced it was shutting down. Its online outlet also...

Dec 2, 2021 Jimmy Lai. File photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Lai, the papers outspoken founder, and multiple senior executives and editors have been detained on foreign collusion charges over Apple Dailys...

Jun 24, 2021 The paper's founder Jimmy Lai is already in detention facing charges under the security law. On Wednesday afternoon, the paper announced it was shutting down. Its online outlet also...

Helen Davidson. Wed 23 Jun 2021 10.19 EDT. Hong Kongs largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midnight on Wednesday and print its final edition on...

Jun 24, 2021 The papers founder, Jimmy Lai, was arrested last year and charged with national security offences. While in detention, he was given a 20-month sentence for taking part in illegal...

Jun 30, 2021 Daily Comment. Why Beijing Shut Down Hong Kongs Leading Pro-Democracy Newspaper. The fearlessness and irreverence of Apple Daily was highly prized in a society tilting toward...

Jun 24, 2022 With the newspapers founder and senior editors jailed, other pro-democracy media outlets shut and 1,000 journalists out of work, can press freedom survive in the territory? Read more: My...

Jun 23, 2021 So the paper's founder, Jimmy Lai, is a celebrity and rightly so. He came to Hong Kong as a political refugee fleeing mainland China. He builds up this textile fortune, and then he...

Dec 2, 2021 Jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the staff of his now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper have been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize by the World Association of News Publishers.

Dec 18, 2023 Beijing and Hong Kong authorities have long painted Lai and his now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, which was forced to close in June 2021, as the main instigators of anti-government protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019.

Dec 2, 2021 Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and the staff of his now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper have been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize by the World Association of News Publishers.

Dec 2, 2021 News. World News. Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily, walks to a prison van to head to court, after being charged under the national security law, in Hong Kong, China, on December 12, 2020. (Reuters) Hong Kongs shuttered Apple Daily democracy newspaper wins press freedom award. Follow. URL Copied. AFP.

3 h ago. HONG KONG, Dec 2 Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the staff of his now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper have been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize by the...

21 June 2021. Getty Images. Hong Kong pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has said its board will decide whether or not to close the publication at a meeting on Friday. This comes days...

Jun 23, 2021 HONG KONG Apple Daily, a popular newspaper in Hong Kong, has long needled Beijing with its rambunctious support of pro-democracy protesters, aggressive investigations of officials...

Dec 17, 2023 He was the founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and was often on the frontlines of Umbrella Movement protests in in 2014 and in the anti-extradition...

Founded in 1995 as a tabloid paper, by 2020, Apple Daily was the fourth most-used offline source of news and the second most-used online source of news in Hong Kong. The newspaper was viewed as a pro-democracy organ of freedom of speech and freedom of the press but was shuttered in 2021 after the CCP passed the Hong Kong National Security Law.

Mar 31, 2021 Jimmy Lai, 73, founder of Next Digital media group and its flagship newspaper, Apple Daily, and 2020 RSF Press Freedom Awards laureate, was one of the first Hong Kong residents charged under the National Security Law adopted by Beijing and has been detained since December 2020.

16 June 2021. Getty Images. Cheung Kim Hung escorted by police on Thursday. Some 500 policemen raided the offices of pro-democracy paper Apple Daily in Hong Kong, alleging its reports...

5 days ago Lai, the founder of the shuttered Apple Daily pro-democracy tabloid, has been on trial since February on charges brought under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020.

Dec 18, 2023 Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai goes on trial in Hong Kong on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. He is the founder of the now-shuttered...

5 days ago The two had planned to meet with journalists and monitor the national security trial of a media executive, Jimmy Lai, an ardent government critic and the owner of the now-shuttered Apple Daily ...

Dec 2, 2021 Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and the staff of his now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper have been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize by the World Association of News Publishers.

5 days ago Lai, the 76-year-old former pro-democracy publisher of the now-shuttered independent newspaper Apple Daily, was arrested in August of 2020 on accusations of violating the then-newly imposed ...

Aug 12, 2020 Lily Kuo in Beijing. Tue 11 Aug 2020 04.44 EDT. Hong Kong residents have rallied behind the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily after its founder Jimmy Lai was detained under a...

5 days ago A representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was detained and deported from Hong Kong, the press freedom advocacy group said on Wednesday, describing it as a "new decline" in press ...

5 days ago HONG KONG (Reuters) - A representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was detained and deported from Hong Kong, the press freedom advocacy group said on Wednesday, describing it as a "new ...