Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced on Saturday to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, convicted of violating a lease contract for the headquarters of a liberal newspaper he used to run.
Lai, 75, was found guilty of two counts of fraud for covering up the operations of a private company, Dico Consultants Ltd, at the headquarters of the now shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, in what was ruled a breach of its land lease.Hong Kong's most prominent China critic, Lai has been behind bars since December 2020 and has served 20 months for unauthorized assemblies. https://www.gmanetwork.
District Court Judge Stanley Chan wrote in a judgement that Lai had "acted under the protective umbrella of a media organization". Chan said this prosecution of a media tycoon "wasn't equivalent to an attack on press freedom." "The United States condemns the grossly unjust outcome of Jimmy Lai’s latest trial sentencing," US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.
Prosecutors said that under the newspaper's lease conditions on a plot of government land in a science park, the property could only be used for "publishing and printing" without prior approval from the operator.
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