The son of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, said on Wednesday it was in the interest of the former British colony to release his father and not let him die in jail.
British-organised event on media freedom in Hong Kong"I am optimistic because I believe that there's no benefit in the Hong Kong government having my father die in jail," Sebastien Lai said on the prospect of his father's release.
This week he marked his 1,000th day in a Hong Kong prison on charges related to a law on national security that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 after months of anti-government protests. "Of course, he's human. He fears," Sebastien Lai said. "But he knows that he can't bend to that fear." In a separate statement, the commissioner's office of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong accused the United Kingdom and United States of "maliciously slandering" the national security law and "blatantly supporting the anti-China and disruptive Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai."
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