A Hong Kong court on Monday rejected an application to terminate a landmark national security trial against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a case that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
Lai, 75, is the founder of now shut pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and one of.
Hong Kong prosecutors have slapped jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai CheeYing with an extra count of fraud ahead of his trial alongside a former Apple Daily executive over the use of the defunct newspaper’s office space. Lai, 74, and former chief administrative officer Wong WaiKeung, 60, initially faced a joint count of fraud for allegedly defrauding a government-owned enterprise by.
Moving the cases of six senior Next Digital employees to the High Court is another signal that the Hong Kong government will seek ultimate punishment for any journalist or business it deems in violation of its extreme, anti-freedom National Security Law.