HK tycoon Jimmy Lai's global legal team urges US to pressure China at UN


WASHINGTON (Bloomberg): An international team of lawyers working for jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai (pic) are calling on Western governments to make his upcoming national security trial a greater foreign policy priority.

Lawyers for Lai, whose pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily was closed last year under a pressure campaign by security police, said they wanted the European Union, UK and US to pressure Hong Kong and China over the case.

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