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Hong Kong’s defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily no longer pursued balanced reporting after the Beijing-imposed national security law came into force, a former editorial writer has said in a landmark trial of media tycoon Jimmy Lai. The way Apple Daily approached its news reports and the commentary section shifted after its founder Lai saw a “change in the global situation,” ex-editorial writer Yeung Ching-kee told three High Court judges as he began testifying against his former boss on Monday. Monday marked day 37 of Lai’s 80-day trial for charges under the sweeping security legislati...
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai had the “final say” over the editorial direction of Apple Daily, a publisher of the pro-democracy tabloid that closed in 2021 has testified during Lai’s national security trial. Chan Pui-man, the former associate publisher of Apple Daily who is testifying against her former employer for the prosecution, told the court on Thursday that in a series of “lunch-box meetings” with senior executives held since 2019, Lai would make the ultimate decision regarding the paper’s editorial direction. That included decisions related to its coverage on the pro-democracy protes...
Hong Kong Free Press
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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Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai ran a campaign in his pro-democracy paper to rally support from then-US president Donald Trump a month before Hong Kong’s national security law was passed, a former publisher at the paper has told the national security trial against the media tycoon. The media tycoon went ahead with the lobbying campaign, despite criticism from prominent democrats and Lai’s own colleagues, including former associate publisher Chan Pui-man, who was testifying as an accomplice witness against her boss on Wednesday. Chan is among six senior Apple Daily employees who pleaded guilty to...
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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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