HKSAR government strongly condemns anti-China organization and foreign media for misleading public and whitewashing Jimmy Lai
2026-05-02 09:04:14 source：CGTN
May 1, 2026
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Friday strongly condemned the attempts by an anti-China organization and foreign media to sugarcoat the criminal acts of national security offender Jimmy Lai and to slander, smear and attack the HKSAR, saying those despicable behaviors totally disregarded the rule of law and twisted the facts.
"As guaranteed by the Basic Law and the Hong Kong Bill of Rights, all defendants charged with a criminal offence shall have the right to a fair trial by the Judiciary exercising independent judicial power. The courts of the HKSAR shall exercise judicial power independently, free from any interference," said a spokesperson of the HKSAR government.
In the Jimmy Lai case, the court conducted 156 days of public hearings, considered up to 2,220 pieces of evidence, over 80,000 pages of documents, and a total of over 1,000 pages of written submissions from all parties, the spokesperson said, adding that Jimmy Lai also testified in court for 52 days.
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