Hong Kong (AsiaNews) Hong Kong's High Court today rejected Jimmy Lai's lawyers latest request for release on bail. The democracy activist and media tycoon will have to wait in prison for his trial for having threatened national security, which opens on April 16. The charge is of "collusion" with foreign forces, a crime provided for by the national security law imposed by the Chinese leadership.
He was jailed in early December; on 9 February the Final Court of Appeal invalidated his release, decided on 23 December by the High Court, which had granted him release on bail under house arrest. At the request of the Justice Department, an Intermediate Court suspended his release on December 31, ordering his return to Stanley maximum security prison. Also indicted for corruption, he faces life imprisonment.
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