Several overseas activists, right campaigners and politicians named in Hong Kong’s national security trial of democrat Jimmy Lai have rejected claims by a government prosecutor that they colluded with the newspaper publisher. Lai, 76, founder of now-shuttered pro-democracy paper Apple Daily and a leading critic of the Chinese Communist Party, faces two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces – including calling for sanctions against Hong Kong and Chinese officials – under a national security law China imposed in 2020.
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