Hong Kong’s High Court issued a ruling on May 19, dismissing the application for judicial review by the legal team of Jimmy Lai, founder and owner of the Apple Daily Newspaper and the Next Digital media group, in an effort to overturn the “recommendation” made to Immigration by the territory’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security, to deny British lawyer Tim Owen any working visa to come to Lai’s re-scheduled trial in September.
Apple Daily’s headquarter was raided and Lai arrested by Hong Kong police in August 2020. Multiple charges were brought against Lai, including “collusion with foreign forces” under the city’s new National Security Law (NSL) imposed by Beijing six weeks earlier, in June.
