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The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national security trial. But his submission drew the ire of the three judges presiding over the case, who questioned the defence’s failure to ask the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company about messaging app evidence in the first place. The defence is seeking to ask Cheung Kim-hung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that the paper’s staff used to discuss the newspaper’s editorial direction. The...
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 US law which authorises sanctions against mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials for perceived human rights violations could be “highly subjective,” the national security trial of Jimmy Lai has heard. The prosecution on Friday presented reports written by Wang Guiguo, the chair professor of Chinese and comparative law at the City University of Hong Kong. Wang was invited to give his views on US laws relating to Hong Kong that arose in the aftermath of the anti-extradition protests in 2019. During the unrest that year, activists had called on the US to enact legislation that would punish Ho...
Hong Kong Free Press
A prosecution witness in the national security trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has denied defence allegations that he had fabricated his court evidence in exchange for a shorter jail term after earlier lying to police. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah on Friday insisted he was telling the truth after the defence challenged his credibility as a witness and accused him of fabricating his testimony in order to favourably influence his own sentencing, which is expected after the trial. As the trial entered the 69th day, defence lawyer Marc Corlett pointed to 14 statements or topics extracted from C...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s aide acted as an intermediary for handling donations raised through a crowdfunding campaign in 2019, a pro-democracy activist has testified in a high-profile national security trial. Andy Li continued the fourth day of his testimony at the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Monday. Li, who was charged alongside Lai over conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law, has pleaded guilty and is now testifying against the media mogul. Wearing a long-sleeved white shirt and black-rimmed glasses, Li was led into the courtroom by correcti...
Hong Kong Free Press
Pro-democracy DJ Tam Tak-chi has lost a bid to appeal his conviction and 40-month sentence under the city’s colonial-era sedition law, in a case that promises to have far-reaching ramifications for Hong Kong’s legal landscape. Better known as “Fast Beat,” Tam launched his appeal bid last July, after being found guilty of 11 charges, including seven counts of “uttering seditious words,” in March 2022. He was sentenced the following month. The Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled that an intention to incite violence is not an essential element of the offence of sedition, and that “[s]editious inten...
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