Hong Kong Court Upholds Warrant on Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Phones

Hong Kong Court Upholds Warrant on Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Phones
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, on Feb. 1, 2021. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday upheld a new warrant obtained by the national security police to search the contents of media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s phones.

In one of the former British colony’s biggest national security cases, Lai and six former Apple Daily staff members were charged with so-called collusion with foreign forces under the new law imposed by Beijing in 2020.