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A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who come from nine countries, include Japan’s former defence minister Gen Nakatani and Iain Duncan Smith – a former UK Conservative party leader who has been sanctioned by China. In a letter seen by the BBC, the group say they have been cited over 50 times during the hearings yet have never been formally contacted to submit evidence. “[W]e now have an opportunity to see how fa...
Hong Kong Free Press
The parent company that owns the Apple Daily newspaper saw an improvement in its financial situation in the months ahead of a police raid, arrests, and its eventual shutdown, the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Royston Chow, the former chief financial officer of Next Digital, took to the witness stand for the third day on Thursday. He was arrested under the national security law in June 2021 alongside Lai and other Apple Daily executives, but was granted immunity by the prosecution in exchange for testifying against the tycoon in the present trial and in a separate ...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law. The city placed 135 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s annual press freedom ranking, released on Friday to mark World Press Freedom Day. Sandwiched between the Philippines and South Sudan in the ranking, Hong Kong continued to be among the few developed places to place poorly. Its press freedom ranking rose five places from last year’s 140. Bu...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong court has rejected media mogul Jimmy Lai’s challenge against a national security committee’s decision to bar a British lawyer from taking part in his ongoing security trial. Three Court of Appeal judges on Tuesday refused to grant permission for Lai to appeal against the decision of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The committee was empowered to make a decision barring the mogul’s lawyer, King’s Counsel Timothy Owen, from representing him at his national security trial, after Beijing issued its first-ever interpretation of the security law at Hong Kong’s request. T...
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