A Hong Kong court has dropped a fraud charge against the former financial chief of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s flagship media company, Apple Daily, after he testified for the prosecution against his former employer.

A former editor of the now-defunct Apple Daily, Fung Wai-kong, has filed an appeal seeking a shorter sentence after being handed a 10-year prison term in a national security trial.

Hong Kong's justice department is considering an appeal after a court overturned pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's fraud conviction related to an alleged lease violation at the former Apple Daily headquarters.

The Hong Kong government has ordered the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily to be struck off the company register, leading to its dissolution, and has now declared three companies linked to the defunct newspaper as 'prohibited organisations'.

A Hong Kong court has overturned the fraud conviction of Jimmy Lai, founder of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, who is also serving a sentence under the national security law.

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is deciding whether to appeal his 20-year sentence for national security offenses, with a speedy pardon considered unlikely.

Lam Man-chung, a former top editor of Hong Kong’s now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, has filed an appeal against his 10-year prison sentence in a high-profile national security case.