HONG KONG (AFP): Hong Kong has accused Britain of interfering in its legal system after a UK minister met this week with lawyers representing jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, is facing up to life in prison for "colluding with foreign forces" -- a crime under the security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong to quash huge democracy protests in 2019.
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