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Added on the 29/08/2024 09:08:51 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police and media are seen outside court ahead of Hong Kong's first national security trial verdict. The court will lay down a marker on the city's future legal landscape when it delivers its verdict in the first trial using a national security law imposed by China to stamp out dissent. IMAGES
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
The retired 90-year-old Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen arrives at court where he will go on trial alongside four fellow democracy supporters for their role in running a fund to help defend people arrested in anti-government protests. Cardinal Zen, one of Asia's highest-ranking Catholic clerics, was originally detained earlier this year under a national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong to quell dissent. IMAGES
Ninety-year-old retired Catholic cardinal Joseph Zen arrives at court Tuesday to face charges of failing to register a protest defence fund, after initially being arrested under Hong Kong's national security law. Zen is one of Asia's highest-ranking Catholic clerics. IMAGES
Canadian Ambassador to China Dominic Barton arrives outside the Dandong Detention Centre ahead of a verdict expected in the trial of Canadian businessman Michael Spavor who is detained on spying charges. IMAGES