The 78-year-old former media mogul and fierce critic of Beijing received the harshest punishment yet imposed under the ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on ...

The Hong Kong High Court’s sentencing of Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily founder and democracy advocate, to 20 years in prison is a devastating blow to media freedom in the city.

The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.

A Hong Kong court on February 9 sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison under the city’s ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's initiative to end the use of solitary confinement on Rikers Island has stirred both concern and hope in different corners of the city. Today, Mamdani signed an ...

New York teens held inside the state’s adolescent detention centers are routinely kept locked in cramped quarters without reliable access to water or bathroom facilities, a new class action lawsuit ...

ASTORIA — Jerome Wright, who spent 10 years in solitary confinement while serving time for murder, has difficulties describing life in “the box.” “If you haven’t lived this, you cannot understand, and ...