{"id":47767,"date":"2022-08-23T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-plead-not-guilty-national-security-case"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:25:56","slug":"hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-to-plead-not-guilty-in-national-security-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47767","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai to plead not guilty in national security case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prison<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, will stand trial without a jury in Hong Kong, after he told a court he would plead not guilty to national security charges.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, prosecutors told a case management hearing that Lai would challenge the accusations but six fellow executives and manager from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/24\/year-on-from-pro-democracy-apple-daily-closure-whats-left-of-hong-kongs-free-press\">now-defunct Apple Daily<\/a> or its parent company, Next Digital, intended to plead guilty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-plead-not-guilty-national-security-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prisonThe founder of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, will stand trial without a jury in Hong Kong, after he told a court he would plead not guilty to national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,48,669,86,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-journalist-safety","category-law","category-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47768,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47767\/revisions\/47768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}