Hong Kong prosecutors on Tuesday filed a “seditious publications” charge against Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, adding to the charges he already faces under Beijing’s draconian national security law for his participation in a Tiananmen vigil in June 2020.  The additional sedition charge accuses Apple Daily founder Lai, 74, of conspiracy to print, publish, sell, distribute “seditious publications” between April 2019 and June 24, 2021. The same charge has also been leveled against three Apple Daily companies. Prosecutors allege that the publications could “bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection” against the Hong Kong and Chinese governments, according to the charge sheet. Disapproval of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government figures has spilled over after brewing for the past decade, due to Beijing’s pushing of bills to cement its control over key policies in the former British colony, seen by many residents as a violation of the 1984 Sino-British …