The pro -democratic activist Jimmy Lai experiences national security in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Court heard the final arguments on Monday in Historical national security experience The founder of the former newspaper newspaper, supporter of democracy, Jimmy Lay, who can be sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted.

Lay, 77, was He was arrested in 2020 Under a The National Security Law imposed by Beijing After anti -government protests in 2019, he is tried on charges of collusion with foreign forces to threaten national security and conspiring with others to issue vibrant leaflets.

The Apple Daily, one of the local media who was the most critical of the Hong Kong government. Its prominent case has spanned approximately 150 days, which is nearly twice the original estimate, and is widely seen as a trial for freedom of the press and the judicial independence test in the Asian financial center.

It is unclear when the judgment will be issued, and the final arguments in the experiment will continue for about eight days, according to the BBC News partner in the CBS network.

Prosecutor Anthony Zhao said on Monday that Lay was arrested for his collusion in August 2020, but he continued to submit requests for penalties, siege or other hostile activities in the following months.

Zhao suggested that the calls of foreign procedures not only targeted individuals, but also China, while foreign cooperation was in the long and continuous.

He argued the prosecution document shown in the court that the law does not prohibit ordinary international exchanges. But how Lay tried to restrict an analogy of what he did in cooperation between Hong Kong’s prosecution authority and the International Public Prosecutor Association.

“It is surprising that we see that D1 (Lai) raised the freedoms of thought and interconnection as its shield,” he said in the document.

Zhao is expected to conclude his closing statement on Tuesday.

Earlier, public prosecutors claimed that any demand from foreign countries, especially the United States, to take action against Beijing “under the guise of fighting for freedom and democracy.”

On the first day of his testimony, Lay denied that he had asked the then chief of the scarf, Mike Pines and Smaref, the state at the time, Mike Pompeo, to take action against Hong Kong and China during the 2019 protests.

When Lay’s lawyer interrogated him from the Daily report at Apple, saying that he had asked the United States government to punish Beijing and Hong Kong leaders, he said he should discuss this with Pompeo, because he had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the report from the newspaper that it is now creating.

But Lay said he would not encourage foreign sanctions after the enactment of the National Security Law on June 30, 2020.

The closing arguments were late twice, first due to the weather and then to concerns about the health of Lay.

On Friday, his lawyer, Robert Bang, said that Lay had suffered from heart palpitations while he was in prison. Judges wanted to secure the heart and medicine screen first.

After Friday’s session, the Hong Kong government claimed foreign media that has tried to mislead the audience about the medical care of Lay. He said that the medical examination of Lai did not find any abnormalities and that the medical care he received in the reservation was sufficient.

When he entered the courtroom on Monday, he waved and smiled for those sitting in the general exhibition and briefly ordered his legal team with an audible voice for the attendees. He sometimes closed his eyes when the prosecution placed its legal arguments.

Zhao said the heart screen was delivered to Lay and had no complaints about his health.

Lay’s detention over years in solidarity has sparked fears of foreign governments and rights groups. President Trump said, before his second term in November, that he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to request the release of Lay. Mr. Trump said, “I will take it out.”

In a radio interview for Fox News, which was released on August 14, Mr. Trump denied that he would save Lay, but rather the case will happen.

“I have already put it out, and I will do everything I can to save,” he said.

China has accused Lay of raising the high anti -Erenniating feelings in Hong Kong and said it was strongly opposed to the intervention of other countries in its internal affairs.

Dozens of people waited on the rain on Monday for a seat in the main court hall to see Lay.

Susan Lee, the former reader of Apple Daily, said that she is concerned about the health of Lay because it seemed clearly thinner and will continue to pray for him. “I wanted to tell him that we are still here,” she said.

When Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to China in 1997, Beijing promised to keep the city’s civil freedoms for 50 years. But critics say that the promise has become the threads after the introduction of the security law, which the Chinese authorities and Hong Kong insist as necessary for the stability of the city.