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Media mogul and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai will remain in solitary confinement after a Hong Kong court on July 25 delayed the 76-year-old’s national security trial until the end of November.
Lai, the Catholic Chinese-born founder of the newspaper Apple Daily, which Hong Kong shut down in 2021, entered a not guilty plea at the beginning of 2024 to the charges of conspiring to collude with a foreign power.
Initially set to begin in 2022, the landmark national security trial was delayed until Dec. 18, 2023. The prosecution — estimated to last 80 days — ran until June 11 of this year. The trial has been further pushed out until Nov. 20.
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Lai, the Catholic Chinese-born founder of the newspaper Apple Daily, which Hong Kong shut down in 2021, entered a not guilty plea at the beginning of 2024 to the charges of conspiring to collude with a foreign power.
Initially set to begin in 2022, the landmark national security trial was delayed until Dec. 18, 2023. The prosecution — estimated to last 80 days — ran until June 11 of this year. The trial has been further pushed out until Nov. 20.
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Jimmy Lai remains in solitary confinement after trial delayed
Media mogul and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai will remain in solitary confinement after a Hong Kong court delayed his national security trial.
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