Jimmy Lai trial: all eyes on Hong Kong as court set to deliver verdict

Three Hong Kong judges who presided over former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s high-profile national security trial for more than 1½ years are set to return their verdict on Monday. The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily has spent most of the past five years in solitary confinement, an arrangement made at his own request, after he was first denied bail in December 2020. Lai has denied two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and a third of conspiracy to print...