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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...
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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...
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was sympathetic towards frontline “valiant” protesters in 2019 and instructed his now-closed Apple Daily newspaper to produce coverage that facilitated public understanding of them, an ex-publisher has told Lai’s national security trial. “Valiant” refers to the frontline protesters who used non-peaceful means during the months-long pro-democracy unrest. Chan Pui-man, the former associate publisher of Apple Daily who is testifying against Lai, told the court on Friday that the media mogul turned from being an advocate of peaceful demonstration to becoming sympath...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s shuttered Apple Daily newspaper ran a front-page advertisement in May 2020 that said “freedom has become a crime,” the national security trial against the paper’s founder Jimmy Lai has heard. Prosecutor Ivan Cheung on Monday presented to the court the front-page from Apple Daily on May 4, 2020, which featured the Chinese characters for “freedom” written in a way that resembled a prison cell. The advertisement contained a line that said “freedom has become a crime, no turning back” in both Chinese and English and was signed by “a group of Hongkongers, on the 101th anniversary of the...
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Jimmy Lai, the founder of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, thought the Chinese government had covered up the Covid-19 epidemic, a former publisher at the paper said as she continued testifying against her former employer in his national security trial. Former associate publisher Chan Pui-man told a panel of three designated national security judges on Friday that the now-defunct newspaper would play up concerns about Beijing allegedly covering up the Covid-19 outbreak. Chan is among six senior Apple Daily employees who pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces in November...
Hong Kong Free Press
The founder of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily Jimmy Lai asked senior staff to play up the business sector’s concerns over a since-axed extradition law, a former publisher at the paper has said as she testified against her former employer in his national security trial. Former associate publisher at Apple Daily Chan Pui-man on Monday referred to Lai’s instructions to publish a speech from a US diplomat in Hong Kong, as well as press releases from the advocacy group Hong Kong Watch. Chan, who stands accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces along with Lai, became a witness for th...
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