{"id":45090,"date":"2020-08-12T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jimmy-lai-the-newspaperman-chinas-tyrants-fear\/"},"modified":"2020-08-12T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T00:02:00","slug":"jimmy-lai-the-newspaperman-chinas-tyrants-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jimmy-lai-the-newspaperman-chinas-tyrants-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jimmy Lai: The newspaperman China\u2019s tyrants fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jimmy Lai: The news<\/a>paperman China\u2019s tyrants fear<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 11, 2020 |<\/span> 8:02pm |<\/span> Updated August 11, 2020 | 8:03pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n China\u2019s Communist regime is scared \u2014 scared of its own people, scared of freedom and democracy, scared of a free press. And the regime is especially scared of the man who exemplifies all of those things: Jimmy Lai.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why on Monday, Hong Kong police once again arrested the outspoken and defiant founder of Apple Daily, Hong Kong\u2019s biggest pro-democracy newspaper. This time, authorities arrested him under the new and ridiculously broad national-security law \u2014 for suspicion of \u201cforeign collusion.\u201d It\u2019s trumped-up bosh.<\/p>\n

Lai was arrested along with nine others, including his two sons, four senior Apple Daily staff and politician Agnes Chow Ting, who played a key role in Hong Kong\u2019s democracy protests. He was released after midnight Tuesday, after 40 hours in detention, to loud chants of \u201cSupport Apple! Support till the end!\u201d The others were released gradually, as well.<\/p>\n

As for the \u201ccollusion,\u201d Lai met last year with US Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and members of Congress; he has long called on the West, and particularly the United States, to support Hong Kong\u2019s embattled democracy.<\/p>\n

Just because Lai and the others were released doesn\u2019t mean the drama is over. Lai represents too big of a threat to the Communist regime. Just look at the way he was taken in: When he was arrested at his home in Ho Man Tin around 7 a.m. Monday, he was flanked by a phalanx of cops and handcuffed for hours.<\/p>\n

This is a nonviolent, devoutly Catholic 71-year-old man.<\/p>\n

He was then trotted around the offices of Apple Daily, where more than 200 police officers conducted a raid that lasted nine hours. The South China Morning Post also reported that he was taken in handcuffs to his moored yacht for a search.<\/p>\n

Parading Lai around in handcuffs while conducting the searches was a special play by the police, a clear attempt to humiliate him. Except it didn\u2019t work. Not one bit.<\/p>\n

Examine the photos of his arrest or the live feed broadcast to Facebook<\/a> by Next Digital, Apple Daily\u2019s parent company, and you see a serene and dignified Lai. It\u2019s the face of a man who has stared down Communist tyranny enough times to know that it is ultimately a hollow, morally bankrupt regime. He has been arrested before. He was detained in February for his role in a pro-democracy protest last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t be scared. If I\u2019m scared, what can I do? I cannot say anything, I cannot do anything,\u201d Lai told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this month. \u201cThe most skillful thing that the [Chinese Communist Party] can do is to induce fear in you, to subdue you.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so Lai bravely refuses to be intimidated into submission.<\/p>\n

Having left China as a 12-year-old and arrived in Hong Kong as a stowaway on a boat, Lai built a media empire before Beijing\u2019s attempt to snuff out the territory\u2019s rule-of-law system forced him to fight back politically.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m prepared for prison,\u201d Lai told the AFP in June, before the national-security law went into effect on June 30. \u201cIf it comes, I will have the opportunity to read books I haven\u2019t read. The only thing I can do is be positive.\u201d His faith sustains him, and he doesn\u2019t want the attention to focus on him so much as the well-being of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s what Jimmy would want you to focus on,\u201d Mark Simon, Lai\u2019s American right-hand man \u2014 an American citizen who also reportedly has a warrant out for his arrest in Hong Kong \u2014 tells me. \u201cHe\u2019d want you to focus on the damage they\u2019re doing to Hong Kong\u201d and how \u201cthey\u2019re crushing a free press. They\u2019re not dealing with a guy who is thinking about the implications for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather, Simon says, Lai understands that a free press is what helps keep people safe. Liberty depends on the ability to call out and condemn abuses of power.<\/p>\n

With the Communist government silencing dissidents in Hong Kong, it\u2019s incumbent on the free world \u2014 you and me \u2014 to speak out on their behalf.<\/p>\n

Elisha Maldonado is a member of the New York Post editorial board and a senior fellow for the Independent Women\u2019s Forum. Twitter: @ElishaMaldonado<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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