The long-awaited – and delayed – trial on national security charges of jailed Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai has been postponed for 10 months after the prosecution said it was waiting for a decision from Beijing on whether the media tycoon should be allowed to have a British lawyer on his defence team.
Lai, the founder and chairperson of the now-closed newspaper Apple Daily, is charged with “colluding with foreign forces” and is the most prominent democracy campaigner to face trial under the law.
