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Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai is arrested with the charge of fallacy and his bail is denied until April.
Thursday, his bail was denied by the court for an accusation related to the illegal persuasion of his company's premises.
This happened after three famous pro-democracy activists got arrested. After it raised severe ado in the public’s eyes, there has been tension among the city’s activists due to the repression.
Mr. Lai was taken to custody under the National Security Law earlier in 2020, but he was soon out on bail.
China believes that the latest law will help to regain a state of stability to space after a year is almost gone amidst the unrest.
Jimmy Lai was caught by the police with his two other senior executives from media company Next Digital o Wednesday.
73-year-old Lai is the CEO of Next Digital which publishes Apple Daily. It is a widely popular tabloid which states critical statements of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese leadership.
The three prisoners appeared in court to get a verdict for the illegal use of their company's headquarters on Thursday. It was considered illegal because the reasons for using the plot were not permitted by its lease.
Though the fraud charge upon the three doest lay under the National Security Law, the Apple Daily report suggests that the judge of the case was chosen by the city's leader, Carrie Lam, for handling national security cases.
The police are not ready to give the name of those detained but spread out that Jimmy Lai, one of the people from the same charge, is still going to be interrogated for exploiting the National Security Law.
Although the other two senior executives are out on bail, Mr. Lai was not granted bail because he is considered as an "absconding risk".
Mr. Lai started to invest in the clothing industry at first but he shifted to media with his large fortune, founding Next Digital.
Prosecutors attacked him with the charge of trying to defraud the publisher’s landlord by establishing a private office. It is a technical violation of Next Digital’s lawful lease. Mark Simon remarked it as an “ongoing commercial dispute” which turned into an illegal approach by the authorities.
The Chinese government has taken all the steps for aptly shunning the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
It is the fourth time he has been arrested this year; he was taken to custody first in February. He was out on bail but the police caught him again in April and in August under the security law.
The judge ruled out his bail on Thursday deeming his to be a flight risk because of his separate national security arrest. Simon said that Lai wasn’t allowed to leave Hong Kong since his first struggle with the police earlier this year.
Antony Dapiran, a lawyer on Hong Kong politics commented that it was a classic case of “lawfare”.
Image Credit - BBC[/caption]Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai is arrested with the charge of fallacy and his bail is denied until April.
Thursday, his bail was denied by the court for an accusation related to the illegal persuasion of his company's premises.
This happened after three famous pro-democracy activists got arrested. After it raised severe ado in the public’s eyes, there has been tension among the city’s activists due to the repression.
Mr. Lai was taken to custody under the National Security Law earlier in 2020, but he was soon out on bail.
China believes that the latest law will help to regain a state of stability to space after a year is almost gone amidst the unrest.
Jimmy Lai was caught by the police with his two other senior executives from media company Next Digital o Wednesday.
73-year-old Lai is the CEO of Next Digital which publishes Apple Daily. It is a widely popular tabloid which states critical statements of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese leadership.
The three prisoners appeared in court to get a verdict for the illegal use of their company's headquarters on Thursday. It was considered illegal because the reasons for using the plot were not permitted by its lease.
Though the fraud charge upon the three doest lay under the National Security Law, the Apple Daily report suggests that the judge of the case was chosen by the city's leader, Carrie Lam, for handling national security cases.
The police are not ready to give the name of those detained but spread out that Jimmy Lai, one of the people from the same charge, is still going to be interrogated for exploiting the National Security Law.
Although the other two senior executives are out on bail, Mr. Lai was not granted bail because he is considered as an "absconding risk".
Mr. Lai started to invest in the clothing industry at first but he shifted to media with his large fortune, founding Next Digital.
Prosecutors attacked him with the charge of trying to defraud the publisher’s landlord by establishing a private office. It is a technical violation of Next Digital’s lawful lease. Mark Simon remarked it as an “ongoing commercial dispute” which turned into an illegal approach by the authorities.
The Chinese government has taken all the steps for aptly shunning the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
It is the fourth time he has been arrested this year; he was taken to custody first in February. He was out on bail but the police caught him again in April and in August under the security law.
The judge ruled out his bail on Thursday deeming his to be a flight risk because of his separate national security arrest. Simon said that Lai wasn’t allowed to leave Hong Kong since his first struggle with the police earlier this year.
Antony Dapiran, a lawyer on Hong Kong politics commented that it was a classic case of “lawfare”.
