HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's top court has refused bail to outspoken media mogul Jimmy Lai -- the most high-profile person arrested under the national security law imposed on the city by Beijing last year -- as he awaits trial on a charge of colluding with foreign forces.
The Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday morning reversed a lower court's decision to grant bail to Lai, the founder of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, branding him an ongoing national security threat and saying the previous judge "misconstrued" a bail-related clause in the security law.
