{"id":20238,"date":"2026-02-09T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20238"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:43:12","slug":"jimmy-lai-will-hong-kong-media-tycoon-die-in-jail-the-latest-jimmy-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20238","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai: will Hong Kong media tycoon die in jail? \u2013 The Latest | Jimmy Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences. His family has described the sentence as \u2018heartbreakingly cruel\u2019, given the 78-year-old\u2019s declining health. Lai was convicted in December on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, after pleading not guilty to all charges. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian\u2019s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@todayinfocuspodcast\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\"><strong>watch on YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Jimmy #Lai #Hong #Kong #media #tycoon #die #jail #Latest #Jimmy #Lai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media mogul and prominent &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}