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.
