Hong Kong Court Overturns Fraud Conviction Of Beijing Critic Jimmy Lai

LOADINGERROR LOADING HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday quashed fraud convictions against onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai, a rare victory in the prominent activist’s legal battles. Lai, 78, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily, will stay in prison because he was sentenced to 20 years weeks ago after being convicted in another case brought under a China-imposed national security law. Advertisement That came more than five years after he was arrested under the law, which was used in a yearslong crackdown on many of Hong Kong’s leading…