Claim 82
Jimmy Lai was convicted on national-security and sedition charges.
This claim was superseded by claim 111 (correction). It stays here so the history can be checked.
- Statement
- Jimmy Lai was convicted on national-security and sedition charges.
- Field
- occurred_on
- Value
- 2025-12-14
- About
- incident 2025-hong-kong-convicts-jimmy-lai-under-national-security-law
- Source
- Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai convicted on bogus national security charges
- Publisher
- Human Rights Watch
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- superseded
- Source date
- 2025-12-15
- Superseded by
- Claim 111
- Reason
- correction
Quotation from the source
On December 15, 2025, the High Court found Lai, 78, guilty of two counts of 'conspiracy to commit collusion with foreign forces' under the draconian National Security Law, and one count of 'conspiracy to publish seditious publications'