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The Crushing Weight of Loyalty: Two Apple Daily Executives Expose Jimmy Lai's Command-and-Control Empire
Sentencing pleas in the Jimmy Lai case took a stark turn on day two. Two of Apple Daily's most senior executives—publisher Cheung Kim-hung and deputy publisher Chan Pui-man—laid bare the brutal reality of working under Lai's thumb. Through their lawyers, Cheung and Chan described an environment where dissent was futile, orders were absolute, and resistance meant risking everything. Both painted a picture of powerless lieutenants dragged down an illegal path by a boss who wouldn't budge.
The Crushing Weight of Loyalty: Two Apple Daily Executives Expose Jimmy Lai's Command-and-Control Empire
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