HONG KONG—Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested and accused of assisting one of 12 fugitives who were fleeing the city before China captured them at sea last year, his Apple Daily tabloid and local newspaper Oriental Daily reported on Feb. 17, without citing a source.
Lai, detained while awaiting a bail hearing earlier in the week, was already facing charges of colluding with foreign forces under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year.
