The owner of the now-shuttered Apple Daily tabloid, will go on trial for 'collusion with foreign forces'. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Two smartphones were seized when hundreds of police officers arrested Lai and raided the newsroom of Apple Daily, which eventually collapsed after its assets were frozen under the security law.
Case law refers to law that is based on judicial decisions rather than law based on constitutions, statutes or regulations.Justice Wilson Chan, one of the High Court judges handpicked by the government to try security cases, on Tuesday ruled that police could search Lai's phones, including journalistic materials. He excluded content covered by legal privilege.
He ruled that the warrant covers all types of materials so long as they contain or are likely to contain evidence of a national security offence, including journalistic materials. "Confidential journalistic materials are an essential feature and a cornerstone of a healthy and functioning free press," Mr Dykes told the court.
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