Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong show trial shames Britain
Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong show trial shames Britain
- December 16, 2025
- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history and Long Institute affiliate, The New Statesman, Dec. 16, 2025
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“It is not that everything about the spirit of resistance in Hong Kong has been killed,” said Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine …. “But if you go back five years to 2020 when the national security law was imposed, that was when the first arrests, and the first moves against newspapers and political parties were all happening. So, 2025 represents the completion of some elements of that cycle with the conviction of Jimmy Lai and the disbanding of the last major opposition political party.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/12/jimmy-lais-hong-kong-show-trial-shames-britain.
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