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Published 10:32 IST, August 13th 2020

Bailed HK activist Jimmy Lai holds online chat

Hong Kong businessman and media tycoon Jimmy Lai had an online chat and took questions with viewers on Thursday morning.

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Hong Kong businessman and media tycoon Jimmy Lai had an online chat and took questions with viewers on Thursday morning. Hong Kong police released Lai on bail after arresting him and raiding the Apple Daily newsroom on Monday, which Lai founded. It's not the first time that Hong Kong Police have arrested Jimmy Lai, but it's the first time under the new National Security Law imposed by the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

Lai has been arrested twice this year because of his participation in public protests calling for Democracy in Hong Kong, as well as for one charge of intimidation which dates back to years earlier.

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"Hong Kong is so precious is just because of its freedom institution of the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and private property and all that the freedom of assembly," Lai said in his online chat.

The office of China's Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong has called Lai an "anti-China troublemaker" 

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10:32 IST, August 13th 2020