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Trial of Hong Kong's Lai delayed as Beijing weighs ruling on foreign lawyers

A Hong Kong court on Thursday adjourned to December 13 the high-profile trial of tycoon and China critic Jimmy Lai, who faces several charges of collusion with foreign countries under a China-imposed national security law.

Reuters

Who is Jimmy Lai? The Hong Kong newspaper owner's upcoming show trial is symbolic of the struggle with the mainland and its values

Amid the widespread anti-zero-COVID protests in mainland China, political and judicial persecution in Hong Kong continues in the criminal court, where key pro-democracy figures and journalists are facing national security trials that could result in life in jail.

The Conversation

Hong Kong rags-to-riches publisher facing Security Law trial

Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai broke into the media industry about 30 years ago armed with the belief that delivering information equates with delivering freedom

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Hong Kong asks Beijing to rule on fight over foreign lawyers

Hong Kong’s leader asks Beijing for help in his bid to block foreign lawyers from working on national security cases.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong's top court rejects bid to block British lawyer from defending democrat Jimmy Lai

Hong Kong's top court ruled on Monday that a British lawyer can represent pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai in a national security trial, rejecting an appeal by the government to bar foreigner lawyers from such cases.

Reuters

Hong Kong's top court lets UK lawyer defend publisher Lai

Hong Kong’s top court has upheld a ruling to let a veteran British lawyer defend pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai at his national security trial this week despite fierce opposition from the pro-Beijing camp

The Independent UK

The Observer view on Britain’s feeble response to China’s assault on human rights

Xi Jinping’s repressive policy on dissent in the former colony is starting to resemble a vendetta as Jimmy Lai faces a new trial

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Apple Daily ex-staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

Six former employees of pro-democracy newspaper admit conspiring to solicit sanctions against China.

Al Jazeera

Six former staff of Hong Kong newspaper plead guilty to conspiracy to commit collusion

Six former staff of Hong Kong's defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit collusion with foreign forces in a closely watched national security case.

Reuters

6 Apple Daily staff plead guilty to collusion in Hong Kong

Six former executives of a now-defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper have pleaded guilty to a collusion charge under the National Security Law that has silenced and jailed most opposition voices in the southern Chinese territory

The Independent UK

Flap in Hong Kong over UK lawyer

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court’s decision to allow a senior British lawyer to represent jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has sparked a chorus of condemnation from powerful Beijing loyalist voices.

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong court lets UK lawyer defend media tycoon Jimmy Lai

A Hong Kong court has upheld the decision to let a veteran British lawyer defend pro-democracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai at his upcoming national security trial

The Independent UK

Sedition trial begins for closed Hong Kong news site editors

A sedition trial has opened in Hong Kong for two former top editors of a shuttered online media outlet who have been detained without bail for 10 months

The Independent UK

U.S. blasts verdict against Hong Kong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai

The United States condemns the verdict against Hong Kong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai on "spurious fraud charges," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.

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The Independent UK

Pro-democracy publisher Lai found guilty on fraud charges

Pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on a pair of fraud charges related to lease violations

The Guardian - UK

Joe Biden has picked a fight with tyranny. The west must hope he wins

To counter the influence of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the US-led alliance has to show that freedom is worth fighting for

Reuters

Hong Kong court upholds warrant on tycoon Jimmy Lai's phones

Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday upheld a new warrant obtained by the national security police to search the contents of media tycoon Jimmy Lai's phones.

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai to plead not guilty in national security case

Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prison

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Al Jazeera

What’s going on in Hong Kong’s courts?

Thousands have been arrested over the 2019 protests, and more than 1,000 trials are currently under way.

Reuters

British lawyers defending Hong Kong tycoon say they receive threats

Barristers from a British law firm who are representing jailed Hong Kong tycoon and democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai said on Thursday they had received anonymous emails warning them against travelling to the city to defend him.

Evening Standard

London lawyers representing jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai ‘threatened’ by Hong Kong police

The barristers allegedly received emails claiming to be from an ‘officer of the national security wing’ in Hong Kong

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong: 25 years under Chinese rule

Hong Kong has been through immense changes since it was returned to Chinese rule in July 1, 1997.

Reuters

What's changed - or stayed the same - since Hong Kong returned to China

Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 after 156 years of British colonial rule. China promised the city wide-ranging freedoms denied to those in mainland China for 50 years, although some say China has reneged on those promises, especially since 2020 under a new national security paradigm.

The Guardian - UK

A year on from Apple Daily’s closure, what’s left of Hong Kong’s free press?

With the newspaper’s founder and senior editors jailed, other pro-democracy media outlets shut and 1,000 journalists out of work, can press freedom survive in the territory?

Reason

Hong Kong Is a 'Wake-Up Call for the World'

Former Apple Daily writer Simon Lee says China's crackdown reveals the CCP's ambitions for global authoritarianism.

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