Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai will not appeal sentence: lawyersAFP, HONG KONGHong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai (黎智英) would not appeal against the national security conviction for which he was jailed for 20 years last month, his legal team said yesterday, without providing a reason. His sentence was the harshest penalty doled out so far under a national security legislation imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019. Media tycoon Jimmy Lai poses during an interview in Hong Kong on June 16, 2020. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee (李家超) lauded the “severe” prison term as a demonstration of the city’s rule of law. Lai’s decision reflects a “general disillusionment” with how the Hong Kong judiciary handles national security cases, Oxford Brookes University law lecturer Urania Chiu said.

Source: Taipei Times March 07, 2026 03:43 UTC