Post contributor Nina Shea discusses how after 21 grueling months, Jimmy Lai’s national security trial is finally wrapping up in Hong Kong.
Lai, China’s most famous political prisoner, may finally learn whether he will ever again taste the freedoms he so passionately championed as a self-made entrepreneur, newspaper publisher and Catholic convert — and for which he is now being prosecuted.
Perhaps more importantly, the court’s sentence will also reveal how completely the Chinese Communist Party has swallowed Hong Kong.
Read more at: https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/opinion/speak-up-for-brave-dissident-jimmy-lai-and-for-hong-kong/
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