Hong Kong police raided the private offices of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Thursday, according to Lai and his aide, Mark Simon. More than a dozen officers carried out the raid and it was unclear what they were looking for, Simon said on Twitter, adding that the police did not leave behind identification or contact information. “I spoke with police they said they would remain until our lawyer arrived,” Simon tweeted. “They did not, they took documents and departed before our lawyer arrived.” Lai is the founder of the publishing company Next Digital, which runs Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily . He is an outspoken figure in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and regularly criticizes the Hong Kong government and Beijing’s authoritarian rule. Lai in court on ‘unlawful assembly’ charges The raid comes ahead of Lai’s scheduled court appearance Thursday, where he will face charges of “joining an unauthorized assembly” leveled against him for taking part in a candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4. Read more : Jimmy Lai: 'National security law is Beijing's death knell for Hong Kong' “They just wanted to get something to go against me,” Lai told reporters… Read full this story
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