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AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai (apnews.com)

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're pro-democracy in an authoritarian state you kind of have to collude with foreign democracies.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Being pro democracy is as vague as it gets. What was he actually fighting for or against?

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's difficult to find information on Google because vague terms like "pro-democracy" are used leaving the readers to imagine what it means.

I got what I told you from this Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/national-security-trial-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-postponed-next-sept-2022-12-13/

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

vague terms like "pro-democracy" are used leaving the readers to imagine what it means.

That's precisely why I'm curious for more details on this. This can either be an attack on democracy or just curbing extremists.

The fact I can find nothing in a language I can understand about his actual crimes is suspicious to me because that piece of information changes everything.