On May 11, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) conducted a hearing on political prisoners and the rule of law in Hong Kong.
Sebastien Lai expressed his concern that his father, former Founder, and CEO of now-defunct Next Media Group and pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, would likely spend the rest of his life in jail. He worried that he and his father could never see each other again. Nevertheless, he is proud of him.
In the hearing, Lai described his father, Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, a prisoner of conscience, who had been imprisoned since November 2020 due to his media business….