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Hong Kong’s customs chief has said authorities will step up measures to prevent items threatening national security from entering the city, following the recent enactment of new security legislation. Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho said in an interview with Cable TV on Saturday that the agency would revise its guidelines and step up […]

Sanctions against individuals – or economic sanctions at the country level – were among the “immature ideas” Hong Kong activist Andy Li “floated” to an international parliamentary alliance days before the 2020 national security law came into force, a court has heard at the high-profile trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai.  Li, the co-founder of […]

Hong Kong activist Andy Li did not take part in a pro-democracy crowdfunding campaign in May 2020 owing to risks linked to the enactment of the Beijing-enacted national security law, a court has heard at the landmark trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai.  Monday marked day 52 of Lai’s 80-day trial under the 2020 security […]

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s aide arranged for Hong Kong activists to meet US senator Rick Scott when the politician visited the city during the 2019 protests and unrest, a key prosecution witness has told Lai’s national security trial. Andy Li, one of 12 Hongkongers caught by Chinese coastguard in August 2020, told the […]

Hong Kong activists appealed to Canada and the US to restrict arms sales to the city and to impose sanctions on city officials over alleged “human rights abuses” during the 2019 protests and unrest, the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Lead prosecutor Anthony Chau on Tuesday drew the court’s attention […]

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 […]

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho defended Hong Kong’s homegrown security law at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Tuesday, saying he was a victim of violence during the city’s 2019 protests and unrest. “I was targeted for exercising my free speech in condemning the violence and destruction caused by members of the […]

Two companies linked to Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai helped an activist group get a global advertising campaign off the ground during the pro-democracy protests and unrest in 2019, a court has heard during Lai’s national security trial. Andy Li, one of the 12 Hongkongers caught by Chinese coastguard in a foiled attempt to […]

Hong Kong has hit out at British newspaper The Times after it published a “misleading” report suggesting that readers holding old newspapers could violate the proposed homegrown national security law. The Times published the article with the headline “Hongkongers to be jailed for keeping old newspapers” on Monday afternoon. The first sentence of the article […]

Jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai’s “radical” stance during the 2019 protests and unrest was common knowledge, a commentary writer for Lai’s pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has told a national security trial against his ex-boss. Yeung Ching-kee, who earlier pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and is testifying against […]

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, […]

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 […]

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai continued to invite guests based in the US to speak on his Twitter “live chats,” even after senior Apple Daily staff relayed concerns about potentially breaching the national security law, one of his former employees has testified. Former associate publisher Chan Pui-man, who earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with […]

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, […]

Apple Daily began publishing English content because founder Jimmy Lai thought US politicians would offer the pro-democracy paper support if they were readers, a former publisher at the tabloid has told the national security trial against the media tycoon. Former associate publisher Chan Pui-man told a panel of three handpicked judges that Lai was of […]

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 […]

On January 30, exactly 43 months since Beijing’s national security law came into force in Hong Kong, the city began the process of enacting its own domestic security legislation as required by Article 23 of its mini-constitution, the Basic Law. The high-profile trial of pro-democracy media magnate Jimmy Lai continued last month, more family members […]

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai became more involved in political activism after the Umbrella Movement of 2014, a former publisher at Apple Daily has said as she began testifying against her former employer in his national security trial. Chan Pui-man, the former associate publisher at Apple Daily, began her testimony on Friday afternoon. Wearing […]

The former publisher of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has denied being asked to testify against his former employer Jimmy Lai by police, as the high-profile national security trial against the media mogul continued. Cheung Kim-hung returned to the witness stand for his 11th day of testimony on Thursday afternoon. Cheung, who has pleaded guilty to […]

The former publisher of shuttered pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily was trying to “put the blame” on media mogul Jimmy Lai with his “contradictory” testimony, Lai’s lawyer has said in the activist’s closely-watched national security trial. Wearing a dark-coloured down jacket, Cheung Kim-hung took to the witness stand for the 10th day on Wednesday. Cheung, who […]

Media mogul Jimmy Lai was undeterred by the Beijing-imposed national security law, the former publisher of Lai’s shuttered Apple Daily newspaper has testified, saying Lai had vowed to take his push for US sanctions to be placed on mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials “to the extreme.” Cheung Kim-hung, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with foreign […]

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai told the newspaper’s staff to keep campaigning against Hong Kong’s national security law and try to attract foreign attention even after he was detained, the former publisher of the media outlet told Lai’s national security trial. Cheung Kim-hung, a defendant turned prosecution witness, told the court that Lai had instructed […]

The English-language edition of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper was “a lot more extreme” in its anti-China stance than its Chinese-language publication, the shuttered outlet’s former publisher has testified during the national security trial against the paper’s founder Jimmy Lai. Cheung Kim-hung told the court on Wednesday that the English-language edition of Apple Daily was […]

Four UN experts called Monday for all charges against pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai to be dropped, as they pressed for his immediate release. Lai pleaded not guilty on January 2 to “sedition” and “collusion” charges in a high-profile national security trial that could see him jailed for life. The charges against Lai — […]