一个香港法院以证据不足为由推翻了Jimmy Lai 2022年的欺诈定罪,但他仍以国家安全罪名被监禁。 A Hong Kong court overturned Jimmy Lai's 2022 fraud conviction due to insufficient evidence, but he remains imprisoned on national security charges.

香港上诉法院推翻了对2022年诈骗罪的定罪,并推翻了对支持民主的媒体大亨Jimmy Lai判处的5年9个月的徒刑,执业检察官未能证明他明知故犯地隐瞒了违反租约的行为,涉及一家与他以前的苹果日报有联系的咨询公司。 A Hong Kong appellate court has overturned the 2022 fraud conviction and five-year, nine-month prison sentence of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, ruling prosecutors failed to prove he knowingly concealed a lease violation involving a consultancy firm linked to his former Apple Daily newspaper. 法院认定没有法律义务披露这一安排,并认为下级法院的推理站不住脚。 The court found no legal duty to disclose the arrangement and deemed the lower court’s reasoning unsupportable. 尽管反之亦然, Lai仍因阴谋与外国军队勾结并发表煽动叛乱的材料而根据香港国家安全法另判20年监禁。 Despite the reversal, Lai remains imprisoned serving a separate 20-year sentence under Hong Kong’s national security law for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials. 香港政府表示会复核裁决, 并可上诉。 The Hong Kong government said it will review the ruling and may appeal. Lai是英国公民,自2020年以来一直被拘押,并继续面临对其案件的国际监督。 Lai, a British citizen, has been in custody since 2020 and continues to face international scrutiny over his case.