Jimmy Lai, senior officials of Apple Daily and 7 people involved in violation of the National Security Law will be handed over to the High Court for trial

Li Zhiying, the founder of Next Media, along with 6 senior officials of Next Media and "Apple Daily", is accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to harm the country and conspiracy to print and publish seditious publications. The case will be brought to the West Kowloon Court today (17th). According to the report, the designated judge of the national security law case, Luo Quan, consolidated the three cases involved by the defendants and sent them to the Court of First Instance of the High Court for trial.

The defendants include: Lai Zhiying (73 years old, founder of Next Media), Zhang Jianhong (59 years old, CEO of Next Media), and five "Apple Daily" editors: Luo Weiguang (47 years old, former editor-in-chief), Chen Peimin (51 7 people, including Lin Wenzong (51 years old, former executive editor-in-chief), Feng Weiguang (57 years old, former editorial editor, pen name Lu Feng) and Yang Qingqi (55 years old, former editorial editor, pen name Li Ping), etc. And three defendant companies: Apple Daily Limited, Apple Daily Printing Limited, and Apple Daily Internet Limited.

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7 defendants and 3 companies were charged with conspiracy to print, publish, solicit for sale, distribute, display or reproduce seditious publications; , personnel to impose sanctions, blockade Hong Kong SAR or China.

Lai was separately charged with 2 counts of colluding with foreign forces, referring to his request for foreign or foreign institutions, organizations, and personnel to sanction and block China or the Hong Kong SAR between July 1 and December 1, 2021; and in 2020 From July 1, 2021 to February 15, 2021, conspired with Chen Zihua, Mark Herman Simon, Li Yuxuan, Liu Zudi and others to request foreign or overseas institutions, organizations, and personnel to sanction and block China or the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Case number: WKCC 1477/2022

Li zhiying's case of collusion with foreign forces is expected to start a trial at the end of the year or early next year at the earliest. Hearing about 20 days for Lai zhiying and the editors and editors of Apple Daily 7 defendants for violating the National Security Law were charged with the crime of publishing seditious publications Jimmy Lai and the 7 defendants in the 3 cases of Apple Daily editors and editors were brought to court together for the first time without any communication