Jimmy Lai's wife and son arrive in HK court as he is convicted in landmark national security trial

Описание: (15 Dec 2025)
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Hong Kong – 15 December 2025
1. Wide of Cardinal Joseph Zen (left), Jimmy Lai’s wife, Teresa (center), and son, Lai Shun Yan (right), walking into court building
2. Various exteriors of Hong Kong's West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court, police present
3. U.S. and European diplomats walking into court building
4. Pan from police to people waiting outdside court
5. Various of people waiting and police
6. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) William Wong, voxpop:
“Newspapers are supposed to tell the truth of the society, it just doesn’t make sense how it can even be related to national security.”
7. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) E.T Wong, local resident:
“Today is an important day. Although it’s highly anticipated verdict, I still want to come here to show my supporter as a Hong Konger because there should not be only one voice left.”
8. Pan of court exterior
STORYLINE:
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Lai's wife Teresa and son Lai Shun Yan were seen entering the court ahead of the verdict on Monday.

Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles.

He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Lai, 78, was arrested in August 2020 under a Beijing-imposed national security law that was implemented following massive anti-government protests in 2019.

During his five years in custody, much of it in solitary confinement, Lai has been convicted of several lesser offenses and appears to have grown more frail and thinner.

Lai’s trial, conducted without a jury, has been closely monitored by the U.S., Britain, the European Union and political observers as a barometer of media freedom and judicial independence in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

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