(Photo: Reuters)A Hong Kong court has overturned former media mogul Jimmy Lai’s conviction in a fraud case, in a rare win for the pro-democracy advocate serving a 20-year sentence for national security charges. The city’s Court of Appeal on Thursday quashed the prison term of five years and nine months for the separate 2022 fraud case. The Hong Kong government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Hong Kong government can still escalate the case to the Court of Final Appeal, though it has not said whether it intends to do so. During the sentencing last month, the judges ordered 18 years of the new term to run consecutively to Lai’s fraud sentence.

Source: Bangkok Post February 26, 2026 06:53 UTC