Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Lai testifies in national security trial

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I would not dare to ask the vice president to do anything. I would just relay to him what happened in Hong Kong when he asked me,

Lai said in court, per Reuters

Above all else, the implementation rules have the potential to radically criminalize online speech in Hong Kong,

Woodhams said

Jimmy Lai is the principal mastermind and perpetrator behind the series of riots that shook Hong Kong. He is an agent and henchman of those hostile to China,

Lin Jian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said at a press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday

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If you save us, you can stop China's aggressions. You can also save the world,

Lai told CNN

No administration has been tougher on China than this administration."

When announcing the move in 2020, Trump said

I'm incredibly proud of what he's doing, and I think he knows that he's also doing the right thing,

Sebastien said

With creativity and political will, you can do what might seem impossible,

Gallagher said

Jimmy Lai is on trial in Hong Kong, but journalism is on trial in Hong Kong, too,

Gallagher said Wednesday at the Washington press conference

His case was designed to send a chill down the spine of anyone who might want to wear a T-shirt or sing a song or post a Tweet or say anything which might stand up to Hong Kong or Beijing's leaders,

Gallagher told VOA at the press conference

His spirit is holding strong. His mind is holding strong,

Sebastien told VOA

It's incredibly heartbreaking that he spent the last almost four years in solitary confinement,

he said Wednesday during a press conference

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Taiwan is the only democracy of Chinese people, for the whole history of Chinese people.”

Asked why he wanted to help Taiwan, Lai said

I always thought the advocacy of independence for Hong Kong was a conspiracy, because people just wanted us to advocate just to get us into a trap,

he said

I was hoping that [Trump] would stop the NSL, maybe by asking China not to do it … a call to China, a call to Xi Jinping, whatever,

he said

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100 per cent, I will get him out.”

Asked before his reelection this month whether he would talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping to seek Lai’s release, Trump said

He has a lot of money, he could have left anytime, but he didn't because he felt a responsibility,

Liu said

He has access to daylight through the windows in the corridor outside his cell, albeit he cannot see the sky."

The firm said in a statement

The core values of Apple Daily are actually the core values of the people of Hong Kong,

he added

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The more you are in the know, the more you are free,

Lai told West Kowloon Magistrates Court

The authorities’ cruel persecution of Jimmy Lai is motivated solely by his exercise of the right to freedom of expression and commitment to press freedoms,

Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said in a statement released ahead of Lai’s testimony