[NEWS] Activist and press mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on charges of collaborating with foreign powers

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Lai is one of the leading figures in the pro-democracy movement

 

 

Activist Jimmy Lai upon his arrival at court last May.

 

Press mogul Jimmy Lai, one of the leading figures in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, was arrested on Monday in the former British colony under the new national security law, an associate of his and a police source announced.

"Jimmy Lai is currently being detained for collaborating with foreign powers," tweeted Mark Simon, one of his contributors. A police source told AFP that Lai had been arrested for collusion with foreign forces, one of the new prohibitions contained in the national security law, and for fraud.