Jimmy Lai’s son tells Burnham: Help save my father, before it’s too late

The son of imprisoned British citizen Jimmy Lai has issued an urgent plea to Andy Burnham to help save his father from a Hong Kong jail “before its too late”.

Mr Lai, the 78-year-old founder of Apple Daily, the city’s most vocal pro-democracy newspaper, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February on disputed collusion and sedition charges, as part of a mounting national security crackdown on the former British colony by Beijing.