SeaJAP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai
☂️-What is the context behind this?
2019 HK protests and CCP’s crackdown on its free press.
I know that, what did this guy actually do?
loathsome dongeaterThe case against him is for collusion with foreign forces to undermine national security.
That is a very different thing from simply being “pro democracy”
Still can’t find a clear answer to my question on Google, smells weird.
RickyRigatoniIf you’re pro-democracy in an authoritarian state you kind of have to collude with foreign democracies.
Being pro democracy is as vague as it gets. What was he actually fighting for or against?
NOT_RICKThis article explains what Hong Kong Democracy advocates were calling for before they were put down by the government
Are you a broken record or what.
It’s difficult to find information on Google because vague terms like “pro-democracy” are used leaving the readers to imagine what it means.
I got what I told you from this Reuters article: reuters.com/…/national-security-trial-hong-kong-p…
National security trial for Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon postponed to September
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday postponed a landmark national security trial against media tycoon and China critic Jimmy Lai to late September, awaiting a decision from Beijing on whether a foreign lawyer could defend him.
vague terms like “pro-democracy” are used leaving the readers to imagine what it means.
That’s precisely why I’m curious for more details on this. This can either be an attack on democracy or just curbing extremists.
The fact I can find nothing in a language I can understand about his actual crimes is suspicious to me.
With limited information, knowing what we know about the Chinese government, I know I sure ain’t giving them the benefit of the doubt here