Hong Kong’s persistent legal persecutions of media tycoon Jimmy Lai on national security charges will continue unabated, as it is planning to adjourn Lai’s case to mainland Chinese courts.
Although Beijing has insisted on its right to take over “complex” cases involving foreign nations since implementing a national security law in 2020, it so far has not done so. Local courts in the former British colony, where judges still wear wigs and observe English common law, prosecute many security cases.