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 of Apple Daily Newspaper and the Next Digital media group, in an effort to overturn the Committee for Safeguarding National Security’s “recommendation” to the Immigration Department, to deny British lawyer Tim Owen any working visa to come to Lai’s re-scheduled trial in September.
After Apple Daily’s headquarter was raided and Lai arrested by Hong Kong’s national security police on August 10, 2020, multiple charges were brought against Lai, including “collusion with foreign forces” under the city’s NSL, a law imposed by Beijing in June 2020….