A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday overturned fraud convictions against the media mogul Jimmy Lai, a rare victory in the prominent pro-democracy activist’s legal battles.
Lai, 78, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist party who founded the now defunct Apple Daily, will stay in prison because weeks ago he was sentenced to 20 years after being convicted in another case brought under a China-imposed national security law.
It is more than five years since he was arrested under the law, which was used in a years–long crackdown on many of Hong Kong’s leading activists.
Lai’s plight has evoked grief over the loss of press freedom in the city and prompted an international outcry, though the city’s authorities insist his case had nothing to do with media independence.
The conviction that was overturned on Thursday was from an earlier fraud case in which prosecutors alleged that a…
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