{"id":902950,"date":"2022-12-01T06:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-british-lawyers-visa-withheld-trial-delay-timothy-owen"},"modified":"2022-12-01T06:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:19:14","slug":"hong-kong-withholds-british-lawyers-visa-delaying-jimmy-lai-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/01\/hong-kong-withholds-british-lawyers-visa-delaying-jimmy-lai-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong withholds British lawyer\u2019s visa, delaying Jimmy Lai trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s immigration department withheld Timothy Owen KC\u2019s application for an extension of his work visa on Thursday<\/p><p>Hong Kong has temporarily blocked a top British human rights lawyer from representing jailed pro-democracy activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\">Jimmy<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\"> <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoon-who-is-not-afraid-to-take-on-beijing\">Lai<\/a>, in a trial stymied by delays and calls for an intervention from Beijing.<\/p><p>British King\u2019s Counsel Timothy Owen was set to represent Lai, the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/24\/year-on-from-pro-democracy-apple-daily-closure-whats-left-of-hong-kongs-free-press\">now-defunct Apple Daily<\/a>, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/13\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-and-activists-jailed-up-to-14-months-for-tiananmen-vigil\">in jail on protest-related offences<\/a> since his high-profile arrest in 2020.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-british-lawyers-visa-withheld-trial-delay-timothy-owen\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-british-lawyers-visa-withheld-trial-delay-timothy-owen\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s immigration department withheld Timothy Owen KC\u2019s application for an extension of his work visa on ThursdayHong Kong has temporarily blocked a top British human rights lawyer from representing jailed pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, in a t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,651,6,640,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902955,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902950\/revisions\/902955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}