Foreign desk: HK Dissident Stands Valiant
On Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists honored Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai with its 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. But as The Wall Street Journal editorial board laments, Lai, “the founder, owner and contributor to the Apple Daily newspaper, won’t be able to accept the award in person, because he sits in prison in Hong Kong.” Lai and his Apple Daily journalists “have been making a valiant stand to keep publishing despite the risk of arrest and imprisonment. They are an example of real journalistic courage that should educate an American media that likes to play up its bravery in challenging the government while living under the protection of the First Amendment and a free society.” Lai and his team “put their freedom at risk to challenge a real tyranny.”
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