Jimmy Lai sentenced for fraud

The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to five years and nine months in jail after being found guilty of fraud. Mr Lai founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, which was shut down by the authorities in 2021.

Also in the programme: supporters of Bangladesh's main opposition party have gathered in Dhaka to protest against the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and demand new elections; and we hear from director and co-writer of Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, Edward Berger, on his remake of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other stories are Emma Graham Harrison, Senior International Affairs Correspondent for The Guardian, and Hisham Hellyer, a scholar at Cambridge University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Royal United Services Institute in London.

(Photo: Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China 9 February 2021. Credit: Reuters/Tyrone Siu/File Photo)