In a joint letter, more than 100 legislators from 24 nations—including the US, the UK, and the EU—condemn China for the “arbitrary detention and unfair trial” of pro-democracy activist and tycoon Jimmy Lai.
The 77-year-old British national, who has spent nearly four years in solitary confinement at a maximum security jail in Hong Kong, is being “urgently” demanded to be released immediately by the lawmakers, who are led by senior British Conservative MP Alicia Kearns.
On the eve of Mr. Lai’s trial restarting and the day after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the margins of a G20 summit of economic giants in Brazil, the letter—which will be embarrassing for Beijing—was made public.
