Abstract
The Jimmy Lai case: The National Security Law and the future of dissent in Hong Kong
Highlights
It was a quietly dramatic moment: Just after dawn on August 10, 2020, Hong Kong police arrived at the home of media mogul and prominent pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai and arrested him
Six individuals were arrested under the National Security Law (NSL): Jimmy Lai; his younger son Ian Lai Yiuyan; Royston Chow Tak-kuen, Digital chief operating officer and chief financial officer; Agnes Chow; Wilson Li, a freelance journalist and former member of the now-defunct student activist group Scholarism; and Andy Li, a pro-democracy activist
Legal experts we interviewed expressed concern that Lai’s arrest seemed to be a fishing expedition, an effort to use the broad provisions of the NSL to look into Lai’s business activities in the hope of finding criminal wrongdoing
Summary
It was a quietly dramatic moment: Just after dawn on August 10, 2020, Hong Kong police arrived at the home of media mogul and prominent pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai and arrested him. As we document in our recent report on the NSL, all four criminal provisions are broadly-worded, and could be used to punish pro-democracy advocates and other peaceful critics of the Hong Kong government and Beijing.
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