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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

MPs call for Hong Kong dissident Jimmy Lai’s immediate release from prison

Sir Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, during the G20 summit in Brazil (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Hong Kong businessman and British national Jimmy Lai must be released unconditionally and immediately from prison, a group of MPs and their allies across the world have said as his trial recommences.

Conservative former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former chancellor Jeremy Hunt, and Labour former minister Dame Meg Hillier are among the senior political figures to have joined calls for Mr Lai’s release.

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