{"id":57228,"date":"2025-12-15T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-convicted-of-national-security-offences\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:39:03","slug":"jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-convicted-of-national-security-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-convicted-of-national-security-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/17bb530eea056f1e4211f0bf9b3b8287a439f053\/489_0_3502_2803\/master\/3502.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=b15dddf5341ff88abb59fbfcb3bbaed6\" alt=\"Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offences\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offences<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Verdicts on foreign collusion and sedition charges were city\u2019s most closely watched rulings in decadesJimmy Lai verdict \u2013 liveJimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon, is facing life in prison after being found guilty of national security and sedition offences, in one of the most closely watched rulings since the city\u2019s return to Chinese rule in 1997.The 78-year-old has been in jail since late 2020 on remand and serving several protest-related sentences totalling almost 10 years. Monday\u2019s conviction, in which judges called him a \u201cmastermind\u201d of conspiracies designed to destabilise the Chinese government, could see him given an extra life sentence. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offences Verdicts on foreign collusion<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}