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Media tycoon Jimmy Lai looks on as he leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van, in Hong Kong, on Feb. 1, 2021. Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media entrepreneur and pro-democracy campaigner who has been in prison for over three and a half years, has reportedly been denied the right to receive Holy Communion since last December.
Pope Francis and the Vatican should also note an urgent appeal that Lai’s international legal team has submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Edwards. It highlights Lai’s prolonged detention in solitary confinement and the fact that he is routinely permitted only 50 minutes a day for restricted exercise, and otherwise held in his cell for 23 hours 10 minutes each day. He has only very limited human contact or access to daylight.
Any prospect of a fair trial has been undermined from the start. The Hong Kong government denied him the right to his first choice of lawyer, British barrister Tim Owen, even though Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal had approved the appointment. For much of the case, the prosecution’s presentation has been farcical. The evidence includes naming several foreign nationals, including myself and prominent politicians and diplomats from the UK, US, Japan and elsewhere, as people with whom Lai supposedly colluded or conspired.
At a press conference last week, the HKJA’s Chair Selina Cheng said that since June, dozens of journalists have received emails and letters with defamatory content at their homes, workplaces and other venues.
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