Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai wins freedom of speech award in Germany
by Alastair McCready in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#75A8A)
Media tycoon honoured in absentia as critics decry his 20-year sentence under national security law
The jailed media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has been awarded Deutsche Welle's freedom of speech award for his contribution to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
The German public broadcaster said on Thursday that Lai would be presented in absentia with the 12th iteration of the award on 23 June at the DW Global Media Forum in Bonn.
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