{"id":146178,"date":"2026-02-14T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146178"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:30:10","slug":"western-media-criticism-of-the-jimmy-lai-case-verdict-needs-a-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146178","title":{"rendered":"Western media criticism of the Jimmy Lai case verdict needs a fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThere is this old British chestnut that says justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done.<br \/>\nJustice has been amply served in the 20-year sentence handed down to former media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, but it has not been seen to be done in many quarters, especially in the West.<br \/>\nThere is the reality of justice and the appearance of it, and the two don\u2019t always or even usually coincide.<br \/>\nThere are two main reasons behind the widespread Western criticism of Lai\u2019s case. One is that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-opinion\/article\/3343269\/western-media-criticism-jimmy-lai-case-verdict-needs-fact-check?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThere is this old British chestnut that says justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done. Justice has been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}