HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai (pic) won an appeal on Thursday (Feb 26) over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges.
The ruling was a surprise win for Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars this month on collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
