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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