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Sixteen Hong Kong democrats who pleaded not guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion await their fate, as a panel of three judges prepare to hand down their verdict in the city’s largest – and to date, longest lasting – national security trial. Two days have been set aside for the verdict hearing, which comes almost three and a half years after they were among 47 arrested under the Beijing-imposed security law in January 2021 over their roles in unofficial primaries held in July 2020 in an attempt to gain a controlling majority in the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) elec...
Hong Kong Free Press
A judge presiding over Jimmy Lai’s national security case has warned the prosecution not to make unfounded allegations against the media mogul’s lawyers, after a prosecutor suggested that the defence had deliberately withheld questions related to Apple Daily staff’s messaging records. The judges on Monday handled an application from the defence to re-summon Cheung Kim-hung, the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company Next Digital, to the witness stand. Last week, Lai’s barrister Robert Pang said the defence wished to ask Cheung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that Apple D...
Hong Kong Free Press
A detained activist has told the trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai that he believed a national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing four years ago was designed to persecute its “political enemies.” Prosecution witness Andy Li testified on Thursday that he continued international lobbying, including efforts to persuade foreign governments to scrap mutual legal aid and fugitive surrender arrangements with Hong Kong, even after the security law came into force on June 30, 2020. Marc Corlett, Lai’s defence lawyer, asked Li under cross-examination how he ascertained the legality of his campaig...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong activist allegedly instructed by media mogul Jimmy Lai to call for international sanctions against the city and China has testified that he never spoke to or met the mogul. Andy Li, who is charged alongside Lai but is testifying against him in the high-profile national security trial, said on Wednesday that he had never directly communicated with him via any means. Prosecutors alleged that Li, a core member of an international advocacy group “Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong” (SWHK), carried out Lai’s instructions to request foreign governments to impose sanctions and other ...
Hong Kong Free Press
The enactment of a national security law in Hong Kong prompted activists to discuss the prospect of setting up a “government-in-exile” to continue lobbying international allies against the city, the trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Prosecution witness Andy Li, a programmer turned activist, told the court on Tuesday that the idea of establishing a de-facto government overseas came up in discussion with Chan Tsz-wah in July 2020, soon after the Beijing-imposed security law came into force. Both Li and Chan have pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the securi...
Hong Kong Free Press
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