Hong Kong court overturns Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction

A Hong Kong appellate court has overturned a fraud conviction against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, weeks after he was sentenced to 20 years for national security offenses. The Court of First Instance found that a lower court had erred in convicting Lai, who had faced charges related to a consultancy firm’s misuse of space rented by his now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper. While this ruling reduces Lai’s total prison time, concerns remain about his lengthy national security sentence, which could result in him spending the rest of his life in prison.

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