A protester is surrounded by police officers as she shouts slogans to support democracy advocate Jimmy Lai outside Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal where the government is arguing against allowing him bail in Hong Kong Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. - AP
HONG KONG, Feb 1 (AFP): Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was ordered on Monday to remain in jail while judges consider his fresh bail application, the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year.
The landmark case puts the city's independent judiciary on a potentially precarious collision course with China's authoritarian leadership as Beijing seeks to snuff out dissent in the restless financial hub.
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