Hong Kong ex-media mogul Jimmy Lai will not appeal national security conviction, legal team says

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1. Mid of Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai being interviewed at his home

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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - August 2020
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2. Wide of Lai, accompanied by his lawyers, walking out of the Mong Kok Police Station into crowd of media
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7. Various of Lai, accompanied by his lawyers and surrounded by photojournalists, walking to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal for bail appeal, entering court amid scrum

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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 9 February 2021
8. Wide of prison van arriving outside Court of Final Appeal
9. Wide of Lai getting out of prison van near court
10. Wide of Lai walking into inflatable tunnel towards court

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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 24 June 2021
12. Wide of last edition of Apple Daily coming out of printing press and pan to printing staff checking it
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ARCHIVE: Hong Kong - 28 July 2023
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18. STILL of Lai walking in prison (AP photo by Louise Delmotte / ID 24324157816450)
STORYLINE:
Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai's legal team said Friday he will not appeal the national security conviction for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month.

Lai is an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily. He was found guilty in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.

His legal team told The Associated Press in a text message about the decision, which ends a yearslong legal battle. The lawyers would not comment on the reason for not appealing.

Observers say his conviction reflected the decline of press and other freedoms that has changed Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to China’s control in 1997.

The government insists the case has nothing to do with a free press, saying the defendants used news reporting as a pretext for years to commit acts that harmed China and Hong Kong.

Lai was one of the first prominent figures to be arrested under the security law in 2020.

Within a year, some of Apple Daily’s senior journalists also were arrested, and the newspaper, known for its critical coverage of both the Beijing and Hong Kong governments, shut down in June 2021.

Lai is 78, and his lengthy sentence raised concerns that he could spend the rest of his life in prison.




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