HONG KONG—A Hong Kong court on Thursday adjourned to Dec. 13 the high-profile trial of tycoon and CCP critic Jimmy Lai, who faces several charges of collusion with foreign countries under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
The postponement of the trial by three High Court judges comes three days after Hong Kong authorities asked the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rubber-stamp legislature body to decide whether to block foreign lawyers from national security cases, including a British barrister, Timothy Owen, who now leads Lai’s legal team.
Lai’s legal team did not oppose the adjournment.
Lai is one of the most prominent Hong Kong critics of the CCP leadership, and his case is being closely watched by the public, legal community, and diplomats amid fears that Hong Kong’s rule of law is being undermined….