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"Preview: Author Mark Clifford, 'Troublemaker,' reports on the lengthy national security trial of the famous Jimmy Lai. More to

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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"Preview: Author Mark Clifford, 'Troublemaker,' reports on the lengthy national security trial of the famous Jimmy Lai. More to
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It's about keeping

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everything secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with Mark Clifford, the author of the new

1:01.2

book Troublemaker about Jimmy Lye, the billionaire entrepreneur and publisher of Apple Daily,

1:08.0

jailed by the People's Republic of China, for demonstrating with the rest of Hong Kong

1:13.4

that they elect their freedom. The trial, how long, what happens? Mark speaks to it here.

1:20.9

Troublemaker is the book, Jimmy Lye, 77 years old, not well, and a brave man.

1:30.3

Here's Mark.

1:31.3

More of this tonight.

1:33.3

The trial itself, the hearing is just about over.

1:37.0

Then we'd expect a month or so until the summary arguments are made.

1:41.4

It's clearly a very complex case, particularly since there's no

1:45.1

evidence that Jimmy's done anything other than practice journalism and speak up in favor of

1:49.8

freedom. So the prosecution has a tough, tough case, but the court does need to find him guilty.

1:55.8

Those are the instructions from Beijing, whether they're expressed explicitly or implicitly, there's no

2:02.2

question, but that he'll be found guilty. He is public number, public enemy number one,

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