Nothing better exemplifies the Chinese people’s quest for freedom and democracy than the effort to free entrepreneur, publisher, and dissident Jimmy Lai, an outspoken foe of political repression who has languished in a Hong Kong jail almost continuously since August 2020.
That’s the view of Fr. Robert Sirico, co-founder and president emeritus of the Acton Institute, a Michigan-based conservative think tank, which has produced a 73-minute documentary titled “The Hong Konger.”
Lai was jailed for his alleged violations of the city’s laws including the draconian national security law, a measure that was imposed in June 2020 and enables the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to lock people up on the grounds of broad and ill-defined offenses including subversion and sedition….