"How he had worked his way up from the floor of a glove factory and how he had started Giordano, the casual clothes maker, the name inspired by a napkin from a New York pizza shop. How the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre galvanized his political activism. How he had started the pro-democracy newspaper The Apple Daily with the slogan An Apple a Day Keeps the Liars Away. I believe in the media by delivering information, you're actually delivering freedom,"
"That culminated in mass protests in 2019 against a heavy-handed extradition law, a violent police crackdown, Jimmy's arrest the next year and the closing of The Apple Daily the year after that. On Monday, Jimmy, who has already spent five years in solitary confinement, was sentenced to a 20-year term, a de facto life sentence for an unwell man of 78."
Jimmy Lai fled to Hong Kong after being inspired by a taste of chocolate from a passenger and rose from factory work to found Giordano. The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre galvanized his political activism and led him to start The Apple Daily with the slogan An Apple a Day Keeps the Liars Away. Lai asserted that delivering information through the media means delivering freedom. Beijing under Xi Jinping accelerated efforts to curtail Hong Kong's promised autonomy, prompting mass 2019 protests, a violent crackdown, Lai's arrest, The Apple Daily's closure, and lengthy prison terms for Lai and senior staff.
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