A FORMER senior editor of Hong Kong’s now-defunct Apple Daily has lodged an appeal against a 10-year prison sentence imposed under the city’s national security law.
Lam Man-chung filed the appeal through his lawyer at the Court of Appeal on Friday ahead of the statutory 28-day deadline for criminal appeals expiring on Monday.
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The 56-year-old is the second defendant seeking a reduced sentence after Fung Wai-kong, 62, submitted a similar application last week.
Both men were among six former senior executives of the tabloid-style newspaper founded by Jimmy Lai Chee-ying.
They had pleaded guilty to conspiring with Lai, 78, and others to collude with foreign forces by instigating international sanctions against Beijing and Hong Kong authorities after the national security law came into force on June 30, 2020.
