Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai loses appeal against phone search

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Lai is due to face trial in September on three charges under the sweeping national security law. Read more at straitstimes.com.

on three charges under the city’s sweeping national security law, including collusion with foreign forces. He also faces a charge under the British colonial-era sedition law.

The tycoon has been challenging police scrutiny of two of his mobile phones seized during his arrest at his home in August 2020, partly on the basis that they contained journalistic material. Three Court of Appeal judges on Monday ruled that they could not allow Lai’s lawyers to appeal to Hong Kong’s highest court as the lawyers had raised points not covered earlier and had “failed to make a proper case”.

 

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