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Decision due in Hong Kong on Jimmy Lai case

December 12, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: A Hong Kong court is expected to deliver its verdict on December 15 on national-security charges against the democracy activist Jimmy Lai.

Lai, an influential publisher and convert to Catholicism, has been jailed for five years on charges widely recognized as spurious. While US President Trump has vowed to press for Lai’s release, reporters began lining up on December 12 for a place in the courtroom where the verdict will be announced.

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