Summary
- Jimmy Lai’s national security trial in Hong Kong is entering a new phase with the defense preparing to take center stage.
- Lai’s legal team plans to call at least five police officers to testify and play 35 hours of an interview show hosted by Lai in court.
- Diplomats and civil society groups are closely monitoring Lai’s trial, seen as a key test of Hong Kong’s judicial independence.
- Lai, a prominent pro-democracy advocate, faces charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and publishing seditious material under the national security law.
