Jimmy Lai was once considered Hong Kong's quintessential rags to riches success story. But now, the newspaper publisher and democracy supporter is facing a life sentence in jail under China's crackdown on press freedom and opposition in the city. How did it come to this? And what does it mean for Hong Kong?

This event was recorded on Thursday July 4 with the Melbourne Press Cub and PEN Melbourne, supported by the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

Speakers

Sebastian Lai Jimmy Lai's son and lead campaigner on the #FreeJimmyLai campaign

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Lead lawyer, Jimmy Lai's international legal teamCommissioner, Irish Human Rights and Equality CommissionIreland's Special Rapporteur on Child ProtectionAdjunct Full Professor, University College DublinFellow, Royal Society of Arts

Jennifer Robinson Human rights lawyerBarrister, Doughty Street Chambers (London)Co-author, How Many More Women? Exposing how the law silences women (Allen & Unwin)

Louisa Lim (host) JournalistAssociate Professor in Journalism, University of MelbourneAuthor, Indelible City: Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong (Text Publishing)