Twenty years for Jimmy Lai is a ‘death sentence,’ son says #Reuters

He’s appealing to the British government to do “much more” to secure his 78-year-old father’s release and he criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s efforts to reset London’s relations with Beijing.

Lai’s sentence is for charges of colluding with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials, prompting a renewed chorus of concern in the West over Beijing’s clampdown on freedoms in the former British colony.

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