HK Media Tycoon, a national security crime, is Jimmy Rai?

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong -friendly media giant in Hong Kong, where some people are welcomed as heroes and other people as traitors, are at the end of his national security trial.

According to the National Security Law imposed by Beijing, the closed claim will begin on Thursday, which is accused of conflicting with foreign troops.

However, the hearing is now delayed as a “black” weapon warning (Hong Kong’s highest warning) as the typhoon sweeps the city.

The trial attracted international attention as the British prime minister demanded the release of LAI. A 77 -year -old boy holds not only the UK but also Chinese citizenship. China does not recognize dual nationality, so LAI is considered exclusively Chinese.

LAI is detained in December 2020 and is found guilty and faces the largest life imprisonment.

Critics show how LAI’s case is inorganment of Hong Kong’s legal system to silence political opposition.

LAI was a continuous thorn on China. Unlike other giants who were at the top of Hong Kong, LAI became one of the most fierce critics of the Chinese country and advocating democracy in all British territory.

“I was born a rebels.” He said in an interview a few hours before the BBC was prosecuted in 2020. “I have a very rebellious personality.”

He is the most famous person accused of the controversial national security law in 2020, under the large -scale protests that exploded in Hong Kong in the previous year.

This law allows Beijing to be opposed to a wider range of abalone and withdrawal.

Beijing said that national security laws are required to maintain Hong Kong’s stability, but critics have effectively banned opposition.

Over the years, Lai’s son Sebastien demanded his release. In February, the young Lai added that his father’s body is falling, calling for STARMER and US President Donald Trump to take urgent actions.

On Thursday, ahead of LAI’s trial, Sebastien told the BBC that even if his father was imprisoned in five years, he was “actually the same as the death penalty.”

“Given your health when you are given age, he will die in prison,” he said.

SEBASTIEN added that LAI’s case is “important for the Chinese -UK relationship.” If Lai died, “As a state (British), we did not support one of our bravely brave people.”

LAI was born to a wealthy family who lost everything when communists caught power in 1949 in Guangzhou, southern China.

He was 12 years old when he escaped the village from mainland China.

He taught English as he did something strange and knitted in a small clothing store. He eventually established millions of dollars in a mental role to establish millions of dollars of empire, including international clothing brand GIORDANO.

The chain was a big success. But when China dispatched tanks to destroy democratic protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, LAI began a new trip as a vocal democratic activist and entrepreneur.

He began to write a column that criticized the massacre followed by protests in Beijing and founded a publisher that became one of Hong Kong’s most influential.

While China threatened to sell the company in the mainland, LAI launched a popular pro -proof title, including the Digital Magazine and the Apple Daily newspaper.

In a fearful local media in Beijing, LAI was a continuous critic of the Chinese authorities through his publications and writings.

This saw him a hero for many people in Hong Kong.

But in the mainland, he is considered a “traitor” that threatens China’s national security.

In recent years, attackers who have masked have bombed LAI’s home and company headquarters. He was also the object of assassination.

But none of the threats prevented him from broadcasting him strongly. He was a prominent part of the democratic protests of the city and was arrested twice in 2021 for illegal general meeting.

When China passed a new national security law in Hong Kong in June 2020, LAI said that the BBC A’s “Knell of Death” was heard.

Influential entrepreneurs also warned that Hong Kong would be as corrupt as China. He said that without the rules of law, the greedy status as a global financial hub will be “completely destroyed.”

Media giants are famous for his honesty and brilliant actions.

In 2021, he urged Donald Trump to help his territory, saying, “The only person to save us.” His newspaper Apple Daily said, “President, please help.”

In the case of LAI, such actions were needed to take him and defend the city that promoted his success.

He once told the news agency AFP: “I had nothing, and the freedom here gave me everything.

LAI has been hit by various charges, including unauthorized meetings and fraud since 2020.

He has been detained since December of that year.

The prosecution of the LAI attracted international attention as the rights groups and foreign governments called for his release.

Over the years, Sebastien Lai traveled the world to condemn his father’s arrest and to blame Hong Kong, who punished “to celebrate.”

“My father is in prison for the truth of his lips, the courage of the heart, and the freedom of his soul,” he said.