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In Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai's last fight

2020-12-17T15:56:11.462Z


REPORT - The 73-year-old “Citizen Kane”, godfather of the democratic movement and boss of an opposition newspaper in the former British colony, was jailed on China's orders while awaiting trial in spring 2021. A symbol of Beijing's brutal bringing of this ...


Correspondent in Asia

His temples dripping with sweat, the colossus towered over with a shaved head the crowd gathered under the lush trees of Victoria Park crushed with moisture.

Faithful to the post, Jimmy Lai is on the front line, in a sweaty T-shirt, this June 16, 2019 alongside Martin Lee, founder of the Pan Democratic Party of Hong Kong, to open the procession of the largest demonstration in the history of the former British colony.

Cheeky kid's round porridge planted on an imposing giant carcass.

And a banter worthy of a triad film.

"The Communist Party is a monopoly offering a lousy service at a high price,"

the rebel boss of

Apple Daily

told

Le Figaro.

, the island's first opposition daily, which denounces Beijing's grip on the territory, with a lot of shocks.

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That day two million Hong Kong people marched behind him in a good-natured atmosphere, inflicting a stinging setback on the authoritarian steamroller of the imperious Chinese president,

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Source: lefigaro

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