{"id":51104,"date":"2022-12-13T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/trial-of-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-delayed-after-british-lawyer-denied-visa-extension"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T05:17:07","slug":"trial-of-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-delayed-after-british-lawyer-denied-visa-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51104","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai delayed after British lawyer denied visa extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy activist and founder of Apple Daily tabloid newspaper potentially faces life in prison over charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces<\/p>\n<p>A Hong Kong court has delayed the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai until September 2023, after a hearing revealed Lai\u2019s British lawyer had been denied a visa extension and forced to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Lai\u2019s trial was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but has faced delays, including the Hong Kong government\u2019s attempts to prevent his British lawyer Tim Owen from representing him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/trial-of-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-delayed-after-british-lawyer-denied-visa-extension\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy activist and founder of Apple Daily tabloid newspaper potentially faces life in prison over charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forcesA Hong Kong court has delayed the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai until September&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","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\/51104","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104\/revisions\/51105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}