{"id":62545,"date":"2024-03-13T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/13\/jimmy-lai-trial-hong-kong-andy-li-evidence-torture-claims"},"modified":"2024-03-13T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:46:00","slug":"jimmy-lai-trial-in-hong-kong-hears-evidence-from-tortured-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62545","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai trial in Hong Kong hears evidence from \u2018tortured\u2019 witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai\u2019s supporters say evidence of Andy Li should not be relied upon as it was obtained through torture <\/p>\n<p>A key prosecution witness in the trial of Jimmy Lai took the stand in a Hong Kong court on Wednesday, giving evidence that the UN\u2019s special rapporteur has said could be tainted because of allegations of torture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/04\/jimmy-lai-lawyers-file-un-appeal-saying-there-is-evidence-witness-was-tortured\">Andy Li<\/a>, a computer programmer turned pro-democracy activist, gave evidence about his role in a crowdfunding campaign, Stand With Hong Kong, to rally support for the pro-democracy protests in 2019. The campaign, which ultimately raised more than $1.8m (\u00a31.4m), placed advertisements in several newspapers including the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Australian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/13\/jimmy-lai-trial-hong-kong-andy-li-evidence-torture-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai\u2019s supporters say evidence of Andy Li should not be relied upon as it was obtained through torture A key prosecution witness in the trial of Jimmy Lai took the stand in a Hong Kong court on Wednesday, giving evidence that the UN\u2019s special rapporteur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,48,3034,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","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\/62545","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62546,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62545\/revisions\/62546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}