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‘Desperate’ son of Hong Kong’s jailed Jimmy Lai seeks meeting with Keir Starmer

August 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Lenore Beadsman

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#freeJimmyLai

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August 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM Everybody can reply

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Hong Kong Watch

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🇬🇧 citizen Jimmy Lai's son is seeking an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss his father's trial, which is adjourned to 28 July.

"I don’t want my father to die in jail... I need to meet with the prime minister imminently."

#FreeJimmyLai

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Worries mount for health of media mogul and pro-democracy activist, 77, as his trial nears end

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March 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM Everybody can reply

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He Rose to Riches in Hong Kong. Now He’s a Symbol of China’s Crackdown.

CHRD人权捍卫者

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#FreeJimmyLai
"He chose not to leave Hong Kong, he told interviewers at the time, because he felt an obligation to continue helping the cause of freedom in Hong Kong."
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Media baron Jimmy Lai, who protested for democracy, faces possible life sentence.

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November 20, 2024 at 3:55 AM Everybody can reply

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Chloe Lo

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New #HongKong standards: Fighting for freedom, jailed 10yrs; former police sexually assaulted 6 children age 11-14, jailed just 46months.

Unjust and disproportionate sentencing for dissidents has become commonplace. #FreeJimmyLai

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Hong Kong’s freedoms are hanging by a thread

Forty-five brave activists will spend up to a decade behind bars for challenging the CCP’s tyranny.

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November 21, 2024 at 5:23 AM Everybody can reply

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Hong Kong Watch

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Thank you to our Patron Tom Tugendhat for calling to #FreeJimmyLai, urging international governments to combat #TransnationalRepression, and encouraging Hong Kongers to make our voices heard in UK civic spaces.

May 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Jemimah Steinfeld

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"We know firsthand the horror of these cases and the reality of living everyday with the knowledge you may never see your loved one again."

Letter from former hostages to UK PM Keir Starmer urging him to #FreeJimmyLai.

It's a travesty he's still in prison.

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Former prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad, and their families, urge UK Government to take action to free Jimmy Lai

LONDON—A group of former prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad, along with family members who campaigned for their release, gathered in London today in a show of so

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May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM Everybody can reply

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Jimmy Lai, the troublemaker

Jemimah Steinfeld

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Jimmy Lai is many things to many people. At his core he's "a genuinely heroic person" Mark Clifford from @thecfhk.bsky.social told me. I hope Mark's excellent new book is read widely and mostly I hope to meet one day soon a #FreeJimmyLai www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/02/jimm...

A new biography details the life of Hong Kong’s most outspoken political prisoner – the book's author Mark Clifford talks to Index about Lai’s resounding defiance

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March 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM Everybody can reply

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CFHK Foundation

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If passed, the legislation would rename the street outside #Washington's #HongKong Economic & Trade Office - the de facto embassy - as 'Jimmy Lai Way.' It also calls for Hong Kong authorities to #FreeJimmyLai, condemns his wrongful imprisonment & denounces his sham trial.

April 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Ottawa silent on Jimmy Lai as EU pressures China to release jailed Hong Kong publisher

Human-rights advocates express hope that Prime Minister will echo EU’s public call

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June 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM Everybody can reply

RSF FR

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En reconnaissance de son engagement pour la liberté de la presse à #HongKong, RSF a proposé la candidature de Jimmy Lai au prix Guillermo Cano de l’Unesco. Le patron de presse risque la prison à vie pour des accusations fallacieuses sur la base de la loi sur la sécurité nationale. #FreeJimmyLai

RSF propose la candidature de Jimmy Lai pour le prix Guillermo Cano de l’Unesco

En reconnaissance de son engagement sans faille pour la liberté de la presse à Hong Kong, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) a soumis la candidature du fondateur d’Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai – qui risque la ...

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February 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Sophie Richardson

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Perfect bag for library books. Publishing is not a crime! #FreeJimmyLai!

December 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Reporter ohne Grenzen

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[4] Die Hongkonger Zeitung war eines der wenigen Medien, die das Regime in Peking noch kritisiert haben. Ihr Gründer Jimmy Lai sitzt in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis. #FreeJimmyLai www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/china/alle-m...

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July 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Pope Leo XIV Must Unveil a Bold New Approach to China - UCA News

Hong Kong Watch

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Outlining what Pope Leo should do about China, our co-founder and Trustee Benedict Rogers stresses that he should recognise Beijing’s threat to freedom of religion or belief in #HongKong and call for #FreeJimmyLai 👇

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An analysis of the Vatican's policy on China, urging Pope Leo XIV to champion social justice, demand the release of political prisoners like Jimmy Lai, and move away from the current Sino-Vatican agre...

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October 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM Everybody can reply

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September 12, 2023 at 2:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Procès du patron de presse britanno-hongkongais Jimmy Lai : RSF et 72 organisations interpellent le Premier ministre britannique

RSF FR

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Dans une lettre commune, RSF et une coalition de 72 ONG exhortent le Premier ministre britannique à agir pour faire libérer le patron de presse Jimmy Lai, ressortissant 🇬🇧 dont l’état de santé s’est gravement détérioré après plus de 1 680 jours de détention à #HongKong. Il est temps de #FreeJimmyLai!

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) et une coalition de 72 organisations de défense des droits humains et de la liberté de la presse appellent le Premier ministre britannique Keir Starmer à intervenir de ...

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai takes witness stand in collusion trial

August 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM Everybody can reply

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Jemimah Steinfeld

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“The more information you have, the more you are in the know and the more you are free.”

Jimmy Lai speaks eloquently from court today.

Outside people show up in support, some saying because they want to live a life without fear. #HongKong #FreeJimmyLai www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Founder of now-closed Apple Daily says he started a media business because “the more you are in the know and the more you are free”

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November 20, 2024 at 5:29 AM Everybody can reply

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Colombe Cahen-Salvador

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#FreeJimmyLai 🍎
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Who is Jimmy Lai, the HK media tycoon on trial for national security crimes?

Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

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August 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM Everybody can reply

RSF Suisse / RSF Schweiz

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🚨«Hongkong 47»-Prozess: Drei Verteidiger der Pressefreiheit zu langen Gefängnisstrafen verurteilt.

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#Hongkong #Pressfreedom #Pressefreiheit #FreeJimmyLai

November 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM Everybody can reply

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RSF nominates Jimmy Lai for UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize

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As a tribute to his extraordinary work in defending press freedom in #HongKong, RSF nominated Jimmy Lai — who is facing life in prison on bogus national security law charges — to the Unesco Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. #FreeJimmyLai

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As a tribute to his extraordinary work in defending press freedom in Hong Kong, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has nominated Jimmy Lai, the Apple Daily publisher facing life in prison on bogus charge...

February 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Burhan Sonmez

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Read Margaret Atwood's powerful letter to #ImprisonedWriter Jimmy Lai, who is set to take the stand on Wednesday in his trial on national security charges. Read the full letter here: pen-international.org/our-campaign...
#FreeJimmyLai

November 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM Everybody can reply

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#freejimmylai #amnestyinternational

DessaLyn

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Nov 20

BREAKING: Jimmy Lai testifying in Hong Kong sham trial a day after unjust conviction of 45 opposition figures under National Security Law

Hong Kong authorities are persecuting Jimmy Lai because he exercised his right to freedom of expression and commitment to press freedoms

#FreeJimmyLai

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November 26, 2024 at 1:50 AM Everybody can reply

PEN International

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#HongKong: On the 4th anniversary of Apple Daily's forced closure, we join international partners urging the UK Prime Minister to meet with Sebastien Lai, son of jailed writer & Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai.

#FreeJimmyLai

Read our joint letter 🔽

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China-Hong Kong: PEN International joins letter to UK Prime Minister to meet with Jimmy Lai’s son Sebastien — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

24 June 2025: Today, PEN International has joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PEN Centres and other organisations in a joint letter sent to the UK’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, requesting...

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June 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Reporter ohne Grenzen

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#Hongkong: Am Donnerstag geht der Prozess gegen den britischen Verleger Jimmy Lai weiter. Dem 77-Jährigen droht lebenslange Haft, weil er angeblich gegen ein drakonisches Sicherheitsgesetz verstoßen haben soll. Er muss sofort freikommen. #FreeJimmyLai rsf.org/en/hong-kong...

Hong Kong: RSF urges global action as Jimmy Lai's health continues to deteriorate ahead of trial resumption

With the landmark trial of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai nearing its end, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) once again urges his immediate release. The founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, whose heal...