{"id":41920,"date":"2026-02-09T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41920"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:08:59","slug":"hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-20-years-for-national-security-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-20-years-for-national-security-offenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years for National Security Offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of national security-related crimes. Lai, who also holds a British passport, was found guilty under a colonial-era treason law.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, one of the most high-profile figures prosecuted under Hong Kong\u2019s national security law, has divided opinion, with some calling him a hero and others a traitor. His family has raised concerns over his deteriorating health in prison, though Hong Kong and Chinese authorities insist he is healthy and his rights are fully protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of national security-related crimes. Lai, who also holds a British passport, was found guilty under a colonial-era treason law. Lai, one of the most high-profile figures prosecuted under Hong Kong\u2019s national security law, has divided opinion, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41923,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920\/revisions\/41923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}