![]() ![]() In mainland China, activists and artists, bloggers and doctors, lawyers and disgruntled property owners alike face harassment, intimidation, arrest, jail and even disappearance if they criticise authorities. That early morning arrest and the following two years of persecution inflicted on Lai and his team, leading to the closure of our newspaper, sum up the sinister changes they were campaigning against: the growing use of Hong Kong’s legal system to punish political enemies, even those engaging in peaceful protest. He did this loudly, as owner of the powerful media company Next Digital, working with hundreds of journalists writing for 500,000 subscribers. ![]() He is one of the few businesspeople in Hong Kong, and the only one of prominence, who dared to publicly oppose the Chinese Communist Party and speak up for democracy. The authorities have decided he must be destroyed for a simple reason: he believes in freedom. ![]() He is likely to remain there for the foreseeable future, perhaps for the rest of his life. ![]() It’s like a show, intimidation for people who dare to go out to protest.” “Fifteen people came and got me into the car,” he told me later. ![]()
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