Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders

Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope that he can still be released after his guilty verdict on national security and sedition charges, if President Trump and other world leaders put pressure on Xi Jinping to free him.
On Monday, both Trump and British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper called for Lai’s release.
“I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,” Trump said. “He’s not well. He’s an older man, and he’s not well. So, I did put that request out – we’ll see…
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