Cardinals, bishops issue letter calling for immediate release of CCP critic Jimmy Lai
‘Mr. Lai’s persecution for supporting pro-democracy causes through his newspaper and in other forums has gone on long enough,’ the 10 prelates said.
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Hong Kong court sentences China critic and Catholic journalist Jimmy Lai to six years in prison
Additional charges against the 75-year-old could carry a sentence of life in prison.
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Members of pro-democracy Hong Kong media plead guilty to violating Chinese Communists’ ‘National Security Law’
‘[I]t is clear that [Hong Kong’s National Security Law’s] real purpose is to terrify the people of that once-great city into silence,’ China expert Steven Mosher told LifeSite, adding he has ‘no doubt that the corrupt prosecutors in the case threatened the defendants with life imprisonment if they did not plead guilty.’
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US gov’t condemns Communist China’s guilty verdict against Catholic publisher Jimmy Lai
'We remain deeply concerned about the deterioration in protection for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the systematic dismantling of Hong Kong’s autonomy under the National Security Law.'
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