Hong Kong national security law: jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai loses legal bid to block police access to journalistic material seized from Apple Daily offices


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Jailed Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has lost a legal bid to block police from using journalistic articles seized from the headquarters of his now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily as evidence against him in a pending national security law trial. A High Court judge hand-picked by the city’s leader to oversee national security proceedings ruled on Tuesday that police were entitled to seize what would have been considered privileged material under common law. Lai, 74, applied to the court for the return of journalistic articles and material protected by legal professional privilege soon after a high-profile police raid in August...