In addressing concerns about whether local residents in Hong Kong would violate the law under the Article 23 legislation of the Basic Law by keeping the secessionist tabloid Apple Daily “as memento” at home, local officials said it depends on whether the possessor has a reasonable explanation. The clarification served as a rebuttal to Western media hype targeting the law.
A landmark Hong Kong
national security trial against the now-defunct pro-democracy
newspaper Apple Daily and its founder, Jimmy Lai, begins this
month. If convicted, Lai, 76, faces. -December 14, 2023 at 10:05 pm EST
- MarketScreener
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKEX) has decided to remove Next Digital Ltd group, which was founded by jailed Hong Kong secessionist Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, from the market, and the company will be delisted on January 12.
/ Reuters, HONG KONGPro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai （黎智英） was yesterday sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, convicted of contravening a lease contract for the headquarters of a newspaper he used to run.