The global legal team of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Next Media, who has been imprisoned for two years to date, proposed to meet with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urgently, hoping to discuss ways to ensure Lai’s release.
The British Prime Minister’s spokesperson confirmed on Jan. 10 that Lai’s legal team met with Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Foreign Office’s Minister of State for Indo-Pacific Regional Affairs, saying that the Foreign Office has provided support for Lai for some time.
Lai, a British citizen, faces charges of “colluding with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security” under the “Hong Kong National Security Law,” with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The BBC reported on Jan. 10 that Lai may spend the rest of his life in prison. When his international legal team wrote to the British government, they hoped to discuss possible ways to secure Lai’s release and described the case as “deeply concerned” and “emblematic.”…