Jimmy Lai’s Son Urges UK to Secure Father’s Release from Hong Kong Prison

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, CEO of Next Digital Media Group, was sentenced to jail for five years and nine months for breaching a commercial leasing contract. The sentencing and appointed national security judge, Chan Kwong-chi, was heavily criticized after the verdict. The public speculated that Lai's case was only a part of political persecution by the regime. Song Bilong/The Epoch Times

Sebastien Lai, together and his international legal team, are lobbying for the British Government to intervene and secure the release of his father, Jimmy Lai. The former Next Media founder and Apple Daily CEO has been in a Hong Kong prison for two years, mostly without bail.

The Hong Kong National Security Law continues to wrap tightly around the former CEO Jimmy Lai. Lai was arrested and charged with “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security,” and the Hong Kong National Security Bureau closed down all operations of Lai’s newsgroup and froze his assets in 2021.