Who is Jimmy Lai, China’s ‘best known political prisoner’?

Who is Jimmy Lai, China’s ‘best known political prisoner’?


It’s been 1500 days since Hong Kong newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested and charged under the territory’s controversial National Security Law.

His friend and former colleague Mark Clifford has written a new biography of Lai, now a figurehead for Hong Kong’s democracy movement.

We spoke to Mark and Chloe Cheung, a young Hong Kong pro-democracy activist now based in the UK.

Last year the Chinese government offered a one hundred thousand pound bounty for her arrest for collusion with foreign powers – the same charge faced by Jimmy Lai.


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