HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s High Court denied bail on Thursday to media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person to be charged under the Chinese-ruled city’s national security law.
The Court of Final Appeal, the city’s top court, ruled last week that a lower court’s decision last year to grant him bail applied “an erroneous line of reasoning” but allowed Lai’s team to make a fresh application for bail to the High Court.
(Reporting by Jessie Pang; writing by Marius Zaharia; editing by Jason Neely)
