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A 33-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man have been detained by Hong Kong police for allegedly selling items "with seditious intent."
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 25, 2026
Hong Kong arrests two for allegedly selling ‘seditious’ material
Local outlets reported one of the items being sold was a biography of jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai.
Sebastien Lai, son of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, poses for a portrait next to a poster featuring his father during an interview in London in December.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2026
Memo to Xi: There is no downside to freeing Jimmy Lai
Lai started his media business following the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in which Chinese authorities killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of their own citizens.
Chow Hang-tung speaks to the media outside Tin Shui Wai Police Station in Hong Kong in March 2021 over activists then being held by the authorities. She now faces an incitement to subversion charge over her role in commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2026
Hong Kong’s democracy fight is also a battle for women’s freedom
Despite gendered repression, smear campaigns and imprisonment by Beijing authorities, women in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement continue to lead and resist.
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy supporter Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in 2014. Lai won an appeal on Thursday over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2026
Hong Kong court overturns China critic Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction in rare victory
Lai will still remain imprisoned for 20 years in a separate national security case.
Pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, after his conviction on charges of of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces,” at the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong on Aug. 12, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 12, 2026
Hong Kong journalists face ‘precarious’ future after Jimmy Lai jailed
Media bosses “increasingly see themselves as an extension of the government propaganda arm,” said Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
A prison van believed to be carrying Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, leaves the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building following sentencing in a national security collusion trial, in Hong Kong on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 10, 2026
China to deepen Hong Kong security focus as Jimmy Lai case stirs outcry
Beijing’s State Council has outlined plans to strengthen security in the city, naming finance and shipping among areas of focus.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong in 2020. A Hong Kong court sentenced Lai to 20 years in prison on Monday, following a yearslong, high-profile national security trial that rights groups and Western nations have condemned as a symbol of the city's shriveling press freedoms.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2026
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai given 20 years’ prison after national security trial
The founder of the shuttered Apple Daily newspaper was first arrested in August 2020 and was ​convicted last year.
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong on June 16, 2020
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2026
After years of legal battles, Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai faces sentencing
Lai’s plight has been criticized by global leaders spotlighting a yearslong crackdown following mass pro-democracy protests in ‍2019.
Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of the Apple Daily, arrives at West Kowloon Courts in Hong Kong in October 2020 to face charges related to an alleged illegal vigil assembly commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2026
Fair trade: Jimmy Lai’s freedom for China’s very big U.K. Embassy
China will take over the Royal Mint building next to the historic Tower of London and spend over $1 billion building out its largest embassy in Europe.
Media members wait inside the crowd control barriers outside the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts building for the mitigation in the national security collusion trial of Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, in Hong Kong on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s mitigation hearing set to begin ahead of sentencing
The landmark national security trial ​has drawn international condemnation and could see Lai jailed for life.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Hong Kong Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong in 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 16, 2025
Jimmy Lai remains beacon of Hong Kong press freedom, say ex-colleagues awaiting his sentencing
Lai’s guilty verdict over national security and sedition charges comes over four years after police raided the Apple Daily newsroom, arresting Lai and others.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Hong Kong Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong in February 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark security case
The city’s High Court convicted Lai on two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces — a crime punishable by life in prison.
People wait outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Jimmy Lai’s supporters queue in Hong Kong overnight for verdict
Two counts — of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security — carry prison terms of up to life in prison for Lai, a British citizen.
Jimmy Lai speaks during an interview in Hong Kong in June 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2025
Verdict in trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai set for Monday
Lai, 78, is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong’s national security law, which Beijing imposed following pro-democracy protests in 2019.
Sebastian Lai (right) and Claire Lai (left), children of jailed Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, in Washington on Tuesday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 3, 2025
Family voices new alarm for Hong Kong’s jailed Jimmy Lai
The pro-democracy media mogul, who turns 78 next Monday, has been in jail since late 2020 in solitary confinement, his children said.
A person pays their respects at a makeshift memorial for the victims of last week’s deadly fire at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong.  
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2025
How an unfree press stoked the flames of Hong Kong’s deadly blaze
Many of the people who lived in the housing complex knew about problems in the renovation project that saw building towers wrapped in plastic netting and windows filled with foam.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2025
Trump pressed China’s Xi to release jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, sources say
Trump appealed directly to China’s Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last week.
A correctional services van holding media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon court for his national security trial in Hong Kong on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2025
Hong Kong wraps up pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai’s security trial
The 156-day trial has become the most high-profile example of China’s crackdown on rights and freedoms in the Asian financial hub.
Jimmy Lai at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong in 2020. The national security trial of the Hong Kong media mogul, which began in late 2023, entered its final stages on Aug. 14, as lawyers present closing arguments.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2025
Why Jimmy Lai’s persecution should worry Japan
The trial of 77-year-old publisher is showing how Beijing uses Hong Kong as a laboratory for silencing critics worldwide, from students to exiles.
A prison van believed to be carrying Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts building for the closing submissions in the national security collusion trial of Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 18, 2025
Hong Kong democrat Jimmy Lai given heart monitor for final stretch of marathon trial
Lai’s lawyer told the court last Friday that Lai had some episodes where he felt that he was collapsing and had heart “palpitations.”
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James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
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Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Yen hits 40-year low against the dollar, breaking ¥162 level
Japan's currency broke ¥162 to the dollar on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
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Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
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