Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail in national security case

Feb 18, 2021 5:24 PM PHT

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Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail in national security case

Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China February 9, 2021.

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Hong Kong’s High Court denied bail on Thursday, February 18, to media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person to be charged under the Chinese-ruled city’s national security law.

The Court of Final Appeal, the city’s top court, ruled last week that a lower court’s decision last year to grant him bail applied “an erroneous line of reasoning” but allowed Lai’s team to make a fresh application for bail to the High Court. – Rappler.com