A judge hearing Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s national security trial has argued that the media misled Hong Kong residents into opposing a now-withdrawn extradition bill at the outset of the 2019 anti-government protests. A brief political debate ensued at West Kowloon Court upon the resumption of defence closing submissions in the trial of the Apple Daily founder on Tuesday, in which lawyers sought to justify the newspaper’s unfavourable portrayal of the proposed legal amendment as promoting public...