Sebastien Lai
Son of Hong Kong prisoner of conscience, Jimmy Lai
Sebastien Lai, Son of Hong Kong prisoner of conscience, Jimmy Lai
Sebastien Lai is leading the international campaign to release his father, Jimmy Lai. Jimmy Lai is a renowned media entrepreneur, writer and pro-democracy campaigner, who founded Next Digital Ltd and Apple Daily, the popular independent Chinese language newspaper in Hong Kong which was forcibly shut down by the Hong Kong authorities in 2021.
Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in Hong Kong since 2020 and faces the rest of his life behind bars for offences of alleged sedition and alleged “collusion with foreign forces” said to arise out of his journalism and peaceful pro-democracy activism. Sebastien has given countless testimonies to raise awareness of his father’s case and the erosion of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong, including at the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China.