Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, watches as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal in a prison van in Hong Kong, China on Feb. 1, 2021. REUTERS / Tyrone Siu
The United States on Friday condemned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy activists on what it called “politically motivated charges.”
“The Beijing and Hong Kong authorities are attacking Hong Kongers for doing nothing but exercising protected rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
Today’s verdicts are yet another example of how the (China) and Hong Kong authorities are undermining the protected rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration in an effort to overcome all forms of dissent. eliminate it, ”he added.
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