Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai ordered back to jail pending trial
Lai is one of the highest-profile pro-democracy figures charged under the sweeping security law China imposed on the territory on June 30. Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered back to jail on Thursday as the territory’s highest court said a judge may have erred in allowing him bail. Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown, reporting from Hong Kong, said it was “the first time” that the court of appeal in Hong Kong had ruled in a case involving the new national security law. The three judges who ruled on Thursday are on Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s “approved list of judges” who take part in national security cases, Brown said. “Jimmy Lai was initially denied bail, then he appealed and was granted bail by the high court – at this juncture, the pro-Beijing media in Hong Kong … severely attacked the judge’s decision,” Cheng told Al Jazeera.
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