The Hong Kong Court on Friday (December 22) rejected the request to retract the charges of incite rebellion by the team of lawyer Li Zhiying.
Reuters and Bloomberg reports the above news on Friday.Bloomberg said that the Hong Kong court rejected the revocation of the request and "let Li Zhiying loses the case in advance in the trial that the Western government closely follows."
Li Zhiying, the founder of the first media of the National Security Law of the Hong Kong National Security Law on Monday (18th).This is the first interrogation of Hong Kong's first crime to collude with foreign forces. It is expected to take 80 days in the trial process.
Li Zhiying has three crimes in charge, including two skewers to collude with foreign or overseas forces to harm national security crimes, as well as a skewers of publication, release, invitations to release, distribute, display or copy incite publication crimesEssence
Among them, the highest crime involving the National Security Law can be sentenced to life imprisonment, and the maximum prison is sentenced to two years.
On the day of the trial of the Li Zhiying case, the US British government issued a statement that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government was required to release Li Zhiying immediately.The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized that the US and Britain's move was "naked political manipulation and a 100 % dual standard."
