HONG KONG -- The start of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's trial was pushed back Thursday as city officials try to force his foreign lawyer off a landmark national security case that highlighted a crackdown on press freedom.
Hong Kong's immigration department has "withheld" extending a work visa issued to Timothy Owens, a British lawyer defending the founder of pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, senior counsel Robert Pang told the court.
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