Jimmy Lai has ‘unwavering intent’ to solicit foreign sanctions, Hong Kong court told | Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai’s Marathon Marathon National Security Case, the prosecutors completed the closing arguments in Hong Kong, and the court said that the elderly media mogulun and the activist were “invariable intention to ask for foreign sanctions.

Lai was found guilty of not guilty of two conspiracy charges to carry out foreign disputes under the National Security Law designed by Beijing, and was found guilty of another accusation in accordance with the laws of conspiracy to publish seductive materials. Prosecutors, Lai’s media organization and foreign political connections, governments, China and Hong Kong officials to give sanctions and other punishing measures to use lobbying, he said.

Prosecutor Anthony Chau told the court to Lai, “He showed an unshakable intention to ask [sanctions, blockade, or hostile activities] from foreign countries ”.

“These collaborations are long -term and permanent, Chau added.

If 77 -year -old is found guilty, he will face life in prison.

Closing arguments were planned to start last Thursday, but the court was postponed with bad weather for a day and then postponed health concerns about Lai’s heart. Lai’s lawyer Robert Pang told the court that the king’s heart was “palpitations” and “collapse” while in prison.

Lai looked healthy as he entered the dock on Monday and smiled and waved to his family in the publicly open gallery. The National Security Case reached more than 140 days after being arrested in 2020 – beyond 80 – beyond 80.

For three days, prosecution summarized Lai’s arguments, including articles published in the pro -democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Chinese authorities misrepresent the oppressors of Hong Kong Freedoms to lobby for foreign intervention after the pro -democracy movement.

Chau told the court that the articles published in Apple Daily were not “rational criticism ve and that none of them make suggestions and that they did not attempt to propose any solutions”. The authority said the newspaper’s criticism of Chinese authorities to call foreign governments to intervene is a “indirect” tool.

However, the argument received a return from the judges who supervised the case, questioning whether this was Sadigıdıion.

“Did they actually have to do this? You can write a critical article about the water problem, but do you have to attempt to provide a solution?” Judge Esther Toh said he referred to a last problem about local drinking water.

Judge Alex Lee drew attention to the Articles of Apple Daily, which is the original focus of the 2019 protests, which is now wrapped in the reinstatement invoice: mi Wasn’t this a proposed solution? ”

Lee added that if his aim was to emphasize the traps in governance, he would not be accepted as a seductive, he added, “However, if he would have lost the government or cause the people to lose confidence or hostile to the government, this would be a sedition case,” he added.

Chau, Beijing, even after the national security law in the city, Lai’nin, Lai’nin accused of financial support Hong Kong (SWHK) and the overseas activist group stand, including members of the alleged collaborators in China (IPAC), Lobby for sanctions.

“Lai knew exactly what IPAC was doing, and said Chau said, and after the law, the existing and the former US government and military officials continued their ties.

During the hearing, prosecutors proved that former vice president Mike Pence and his first administration were mostly a network of foreign politicians, including senior members. Taiwan’s former President Tsai Eng-Wen and a series of England, USA and Taiwan activists, academics, politicians and journalists were also listed.

In November, Lai said he met a little bit, but refused to ask for any concrete action beyond the speech to support Hong Kong. He said he had never met Trump, had never met or did not exchange messages, but the US president believed he was informed about him.

The closing arguments of Lai’s defense team are expected to end at the beginning of next week before they retire to decide the decisions of the three referee panels. A decision is expected before November due to the beginning of another national security case, but the date is not determined.

The hearing, called “Hong Kong 47 ,, lasted more than five months between the end of the hearings and a decision for more than five months for the penalty.