YouTuber: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai under trial | DD India
By Mark Simon, EWTN News,
Mark Simon is the managing director of Lai Trust, Lai’s holding company. Simon has worked for Jimmy Lai since May 2001. He is a former senior executive of Next Digital, Lai’s media company that published Apple Daily.
COMMENTARY: The imprisoned media magnate’s story is one of bravery, hope and, above all else, faith.
I could see my boss getting agitated. The executive he had just hired for our television business, a former political operative, was intently describing the hit he was about to apply to a couple of old political enemies. A newspaper editor and I exchanged glances, as we knew where this was going.
After the lunch, my boss’ assistant called me back to Mr. Lai’s office. I never even sat down.
“He’s mean,” Mr. Lai said. “Can you handle it?”
Meet the Jimmy Lai I know.
The Jimmy Lai the world has come to know is the Hong Kong media magnate, who, over the next three months, will be persecuted for what the Beijing-backed Hong Kong government says are violations of the Hong Kong 2020 National Security Law (NSL). …