{"id":57571,"date":"2025-12-15T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/jimmy-lai-conviction-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-decried-as-attack-on-press-freedom\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:08:51","slug":"jimmy-lai-conviction-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-decried-as-attack-on-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/jimmy-lai-conviction-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figure-decried-as-attack-on-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom"},"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: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom\" 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: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Rights groups dismiss \u2018sham conviction\u2019 of media tycoon on national security offences in city\u2019s most closely watched rulings in decadesThe rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itselfJimmy 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.Soon after the ruling was delivered, rights and press groups decried the verdict as a \u201csham conviction\u201d and an attack on press freedom. 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: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom Rights groups<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57571","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\/57571","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=57571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}