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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Lawyers for jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai ask Rishi Sunak for urgent meeting

AP

Lawyers for the Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has have requested an an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of his trial on national security charges.

The 75-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily potentially faces a life term in one of the most high-profile cases by Hong Kong authorities as part of a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.

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