Mediemogul i Hongkong får nytt straff för protester

Lai Chee-Ying (Chinese: 黎智英, born 8 December 1947), also known as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong entrepreneur and activist. He founded Giordano, an Asian clothing retailer, Next Digital (formerly Next Media), a Hong Kong-listed media company, and the popular newspaper Apple Daily. He is one of the main contributors to the pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party. Although he is known as a Hong Kong political figure, he has been a UK national since 1996. Lai is also an art collector.A prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party, Lai was arrested on 10 August 2020 by the Hong Kong police on charges of violating the territory's new national security law, an action which prompted widespread criticism.After that, Lai was allow to bail in 12 August. But in 3 December, Lai was accused fraudulent charges and no longer allowed to bail. The court decided to jail Lai until April 2021. This is the first time Lai has been detained. Lai regarded the prison life as “the pinnacle of his own life”.In December 2020, Lai was awarded "Freedom of Press Award" by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for his role in founding Apple Daily, a news media under Lai's pro-democracy leadership that "still dares to openly criticise the Chinese regime and which widely covered last year's pro-democracy protests."On 29 December, Lai resigned from his roles with Next Digital as director and chairman of the board.