Hong Kong postponed media mogul Jimmy Lai's trial on Friday, awaiting a heart monitoring device -- the second delay this week to the democracy campaigner's case.

The 77-year-old founder of the Apple Daily newspaper is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law, which Beijing imposed following huge and sometimes violent democracy protests in 2019.

Closing arguments in the long-running trial were originally expected to begin Thursday, but all court sessions were suspended by heavy rain.

As court resumed Friday, defence lawyer Robert Pang said that Lai had heart "palpitations" and experienced the feeling of "collapsing".

Lai has been kept behind bars since December 2020, reportedly in solitary confinement, and concerns have previously been raised over the septu

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