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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...
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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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Jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai’s “radical” stance during the 2019 protests and unrest was common knowledge, a commentary writer for Lai’s pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has told a national security trial against his ex-boss. Yeung Ching-kee, who earlier pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and is testifying against Lai for the prosecution, told a panel of three handpicked national security judges on Monday that Lai would appeal to the paper’s readers to take to the streets in 2019, when the city saw massive protests sparked by a now-axed extradition bill....
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A former Apple Daily editorial writer penned opinion pieces expressing pro-democracy views in line with those held by the newspaper’s founder, detained media mogul Jimmy Lai, a landmark national security trial has heard. A panel of three designated national security judges heard on Wednesday that Yeung Ching-kee, who managed a commentary section in the paper, wrote op-eds expressing pro-democracy views consistent with those of his boss. Lai, 76, in on trial after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the Beijing-imposed security law. He also pleaded n...
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The views expressed by Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai in his Apple Daily column were “guidelines” for writing and choosing commentary articles to publish in the now-defunct newspaper, a former editorial writer has said in a landmark national security trial. Yeung Ching-kee told the court on Tuesday that it was known at the newspaper that no one dared to make changes to opinion pieces penned by its founder Lai, as the ex-editorial writer testified against his former boss for the second straight day. Lai is facing a 80-day trial and life imprisonment after he denied two counts of conspiring to...
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Hong Kong prosecutors have pointed to ex-US president Donald Trump’s praise of detained media mogul Jimmy Lai almost four years ago in his national security trial. Ivan Cheung, a lead prosecutor, presented to the court on Monday a series of tweets and reports published by the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper from August 2020. In them, Trump called the paper’s founder Lai a “brave man” following his arrest on suspicion of breaching the national security law Beijing imposed in June that year. The prosecutor highlighted a Chinese-language article published on August 21 that year, which read: “...
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