Jimmy Lay’s trial from Hong Kong is late for health concerns news

The founder of the 77 -year -old Apple Daily newspaper, accused of foreign complicity for 2019 protests.

Hong Kong judges have postponed the trial of the media pole Jimmy Lay until it was provided with the relevant cardiac monitoring device.

On Friday, the decision of Friday is the second delay in the case this week after his lawyer said that he suffered from heart palpitations.

Founder of the 77 -year -old Apple Daily Charged With foreign complicity under the Hong Kong National Security Law, which Beijing imposed after widespread support for democracy in 2019.

It was originally expected that the closing arguments will start in the long -term trial on Thursday, but all court sessions were suspended due to bad weather.

With the court’s appeal on Friday, defense lawyer Robert Bang said that Lay had a “palpitational” in the heart and witnessed a sense of “collapse”, but added that colleagues did not want to pay attention to focusing on his health.

Lai has been kept behind bars since December 2020, according to what was stated in solitary confinement, fears have been raised before the luxury of Saturday.

“The world is watching”

The Judges Committee of three judges raised the case to the two to allow time for prison authorities to prepare Lay with a wearing heart control and the provision of medicines.

The sprawling experience, which started in December 2023, enters its final stages with the continuation of Western countries and rights groups in calling for the release of Lai.

Regardless of the accusation of collusion-which can be landed in life-imprisonment-that no one is also accused of “Seal Publishing” related to 161 of the openings who hold his secondary line.

“The world is watching how Hong Kong treated journalists,” said CPJ.

“The lengthy detention of Jimmy Lai does not destroy the historic Hong Kong reputation as a free and open society, but also as a reliable business center,” said L -Yi’s regional CPJ.

US President Donald Trump On Thursday, the Fox News program was told that it had previously brought up the Lai case with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“I will do everything I can to save … you can also understand the president Shi will not be completely happy,” Trump quoted Trump as saying.

The Hong Kong government said on Wednesday that it “strongly rejected and rejected the comprehensive statements made by the foreign forces” regarding the Lay case.

Lay is a British citizen and repeated his son Sebastian in March, calling on the Kiir Starmer administration to make more effort, saying: “I do not want my father to die in prison.”

He also accused two witnesses of the prosecution, Chan Tesz Wah and Andy Lee, by financially supporting a support group that runs advertisements abroad to support the 2019 protests.

Lai denied calling for sanctions against China and Hong Kong and said he had never called for separation.

Apple Daily was forced to close in 2021 after the police raids and arrest its big editors.