Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai instructed senior editorial staff at Apple Daily to use the newspaper to mobilise people to take to the street and to call for western sanctions amid the 2019 protests and unrest, the shuttered outlet’s former publisher has told a court. Cheung Kim-hung, who was also the CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company, Next Digital, took the witness stand against his ex-boss on Wednesday. Cheung, the first accomplice witness to testify in Lai’s closely-watched national security trial, pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces in 2022, for which he was char…
