The national security trial of Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was postponed for the second time on Tuesday after his British lawyer was denied a visa extension, according to local reports.
The trial has been pushed back to Sept. 25, 2023, and is expected to last 40 days, pending a decision by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) legislative body on whether foreign lawyers can work on national security cases.
Lai’s senior counsel, Robert Pang, asked the court to postpone the trial because Lai’s British defense barrister, Tim Owen, had left Hong Kong to take on another case scheduled in May, Hong Kong Free Press reported….