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A prosecution witness testifying in Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial has said he lied to the police earlier, including when he told officers he was not a member of Stand With Hong Kong, an activist group that urged foreign sanctions on city. Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal who was charged alongside Lai but has pleaded guilty, appeared at West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday as the defence continued questioning him. Representing Lai, lawyer Mark Corlett brought up Stand With Hong Kong, a pro-democracy group that called on foreign governments to impose sanctions on the c...
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Media mogul Jimmy Lai was fearless and “led by example” after the Beijing-enacted security law came into force, an activist testifying against the tycoon in his high-profile trial has said. Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal who was charged alongside Lai and is now a witness for the prosecution, appeared at West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Thursday as the defence began questioning him. Marc Corlett, one of Lai’s lawyers, asked Chan whether it had been his “intention… to deliberately take action [he] knew to be in breach” of the national security law. The activist said it “depended on what kind of pe...
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Radical groups broke into two university laboratories to steal chemicals for a bomb plot to murder police officers during the 2019 protests and unrest, the prosecution told a terrorism jury trial on Wednesday. Seven people are standing trial under the city’s anti-terrorism act at the High Court, with prosecutors – for the first time – invoking the offence to charge a group accused of planning to carry out a bomb attack during a rally on December 8, 2019. The plot allegedly took place during the months-long pro-democracy demonstrations and unrest which rocked the city that year. The 60-day jury...
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Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai’s arrest dealt a “heavy blow” to pro-democracy advocacy group Stand With Hong Kong, causing it to lose its connections to US politicians, the media mogul’s national security trial has heard. Activist Andy Li was also arrested in the same police swoop on August 10, 2020, but the activist group had a “Plan B” to sustain lobbying efforts overseas, said paralegal Chan Tsz-wah, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces. Lai faces two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and one count of conspiring to publish “sed...
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Hong Kong police have received over 28,000 tip-offs via the anti-terrorism hotline since its launch in June 2022, including reports of suspected possession of weapons and suspected harbouring of explosives. Police told HKFP on Wednesday that public vigilance against terrorism increased as the authorities heightened promotion and educational efforts, and encouraged residents to report suspicious activity. Hotline ‘upgrade’Upon its launch, police said the hotline was an “upgrade” to an existing anti-violence hotline, which was set up in 2019 as city-wide protests erupted against a since-axed ext...
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An alleged bomb plot to murder police officers during the 2019 protests and unrest in Hong Kong could have caused heavy casualties, the prosecution has said in the city’s first trial under an anti-terrorism act. The prosecution on Tuesday began their opening statement at the High Court after a nine-member jury was selected on Monday to hear the trial of seven people charged under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance. Prosecutor Juliana Chow said the bomb plot involved planting two homemade bombs near Emperor Group Centre at Hennessy Road in Wan Chai during a rally on December...
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Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other pro-democracy activists are set to appeal their convictions linked to a defunct fund that supported protesters during the unrest in 2019. The legal challenge was launched by Cardinal Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, scholar Hui Po-keung and singer-activist Denise Ho, who were trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Fund. Their appeal will be heard at the High Court on January 8, 2025, the Judiciary’s website showed. It is estimated to last for three days. The pro-democracy figures were found guilty in November 2022 of not registering the...
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Nine jurors have been selected for Hong Kong’s first-ever trial under a United Nations anti-terrorism ordinance over an alleged conspiracy to commit bombings and shoot police officers to death in December 2019. The High Court on Monday completed the selection of a jury consisting of three men and six women, who will hear a 60-day trial and pass a verdict on seven individuals charged under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance. According to local media reports on Monday, Cheung Chun-fu, Cheung Ming-yu, Yim Ming-him, Christian Lee, Lai Chun-pong and Justin Hui have denied the ch...
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A Hong Kong man has been jailed for one year and four months over his links to a fundraising platform that supported protesters in 2019. Yu Yan-yuk, currently a student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, appeared at the District Court on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported. He earlier pleaded not guilty to money laundering but was convicted in March after trial. He was among four people linked to Spark Alliance, a crowdfunded organisation that financed bail applications for those arrested during the 2019 protests and unrest, who was arrested in December 2019. Police said they had fr...
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A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four years and seven months in jail over rioting and wounding others during the Yuen Long mob attack at the height of the 2019 protests and unrest. Tang Siu-hung, a 42-year-old driver, was prosecuted last July along with three others, four years after an incident on the night of July 21, 2019, when dozens of men wearing white shirts attacked commuters in Yuen Long MTR station after protests on Hong Kong Island. Tang pleaded guilty to rioting and conspiracy to wound with intent. During sentencing on Thursday, district court judge Daniel Tang said that the d...
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