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 Apple Daily newsroom on Monday, which Lai founded. It's t first time that Hong Kong Police have arrested Jimmy Lai, but it's first time under new National Security Law imposed by 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 rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and private property and all that freedom of assembly," Lai said in his online chat.

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

10:32 IST, August 13th 2020