Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, who is on bail for allegedly intimidating a reporter at the Victoria Park in Causeway Bay on June 4, 2017, will apply for variation of bail conditions at the High Court tomorrow so he can leave Hong Kong. As part of his bail conditions, he is not allowed to leave Hong Kong. On May 22, Lai applied at the High Court to remove the condition of barring him from leaving Hong Kong, but he withdrew the application. "The courts can always impose the condition of not leaving Hong Kong and I think it’s quite a common condition nowadays. One of them, Brian Leung Kai-ping, former chief editor of Hong Kong University Student Union's Undergrad magazine, had told the media previously that he is in the U.S..

Source: The Standard June 11, 2020 05:14 UTC