HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong court trying media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying on national security charges warned him on Monday against making remarks it deems "political" after he implied that his concerns over the city's direction had been vindicated, in the latest heated exchange in his long-running testimony.
Lai stands accused of colluding with foreign forces under the national security law China imposed on Hong Kong at the end of June 2020, and of publishing seditious materials through his now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily. Tensions in the courtroom escalated Monday as the prosecution questioned him about an opinion piece he had published on June 14, 2020, speaking out against the security legislation 16 days before it was enacted. It was titled "Suffocating Hong Kongers, either escape or resist."
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