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Published on: Tuesday, February 02, 2021
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Jimmy Lai (C) looks on as activists demonstrate outside the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong in November of 2020.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered Monday to remain in jail while judges consider his fresh bail application, the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year.
The landmark case puts the city’s independent judiciary on a potentially precarious collision course with China’s authoritarian leadership as Beijing seeks to snuff out dissent in the restless financial hub.
Lai, 73, who owns the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, is one of more than 100 democracy supporters arrested under the new law since it was enacted in June, and the highest-profile figure to be incarcerated on pre-trial charges.
Hong Kong Tycoon Remains In Jail After Landmark Challenge To Security Law By Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor
02/01/21 AT 4:44 AM
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered Monday to remain in jail while judges consider his fresh bail application, the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year.
The landmark case puts the city s independent judiciary on a potentially precarious collision course with China s authoritarian leadership as Beijing seeks to snuff out dissent in the restless financial hub.
Lai, 73, who owns the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, is one of more than 100 democracy supporters arrested under the new law since it was enacted in June, and the highest-profile figure to be incarcerated on pretrial charges.
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy back in jail again 1 minute read
Hong Kong, Dec 31 (efe-epa).- Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday remanded pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in custody again after allowing prosecutors to appeal against his bail in a national security law case.
The Court of Final Appeal granted an interim order to detain the 73-year-old founder of Apple Daily until a hearing on Feb.1 next year.
Prosecutor Anthony Chau pointed out that an article under the national security law, which Lai is accused of violating, states that no bail shall be granted unless there are sufficient grounds to believe that the suspect will not commit acts endangering the national security.
HK’s highest court orders Jimmy Lai to return to prison
HYPERBOLE: A prosecutor argued that bail should not be considered and likened the seriousness of Lai’s national security offenses to those of murder and treason
AFP, HONG KONG
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (黎智英) yesterday was ordered back to jail as the territory’s highest court granted prosecutors an appeal against his bail.
Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a new National Security Law that China imposed on Hong Kong in late June last year in a bid to stamp out dissent.