Source:            www.MNNonline.org

Date:                 August 14, 2020

 

Jimmy Lai at the Hoover Institute.
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(Hong Kong—Aug. 10, 2020) Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai today on charges of foreign collusion.Lai is the founder of the Next Digital group. One of the group’s imprints, Apple Daily News, is known for encouraging participation in pro-democracy protests.On Aug. 10, Lai was arrested, and Next Digital’s headquarters were searched.Authorities charged Lai with collusion with foreign powers. This form of collusion was criminalized just last month as part of Hong Kong’s new National Security Law.Later in the day, Hong Kong also arrested pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow.

“我早已下定決心不再懼怕恐懼。因為即便我謹小慎微,他們若想取我性命,或騷擾我的妻子和家人,我也無法阻止。所以我告訴自己,不要顧慮後果,要做正確的事。
若我總擔心敢言敢當的後果,那麼我將一事無成,我的生命也隨之終結。因此我早已決定:不,我不會考慮這些,我要做正確的事,繼續我的人生。“ pic.twitter.com/ogXaOcV2WK

— 小獅在紐約 (@percyisagenius) August 10, 2020
The arrests came on the heels of China sanctioning U.S. Senators Marco Rubio Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Pat Toomey, Josh Hawley, and U.S. Representative Chris Smith, along with three other Americans. China claims these people behaved poorly “on Hong Kong-related issues.”Many of the policymakers have said they are not backing down. undefined://chinaaid.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D1e219a9a798758356bbbbe62b%26id%3D06461666d6%26e%3D103d71d3de&source=gmail&ust=1597623412733000&usg=AFQjCNFfC824kGQ7ZJsM4FNilxybDSqBzw">CNN quoted Cruz spokeswoman Lauren Blair Aronson as saying China, “thinks that it can distract from its crackdown on Hong Kong, including the arrest of freedom fighter Jimmy Lai, by re-announcing sanctions against Sen. Cruz that were already not credible to begin with. It won't work.”

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