ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: US President Donald Trump said Friday he brought up the fate of imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai during the high-stakes summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Asked about the release of political prisoners by China, Trump told reporters on board Air Force One: “I did bring him up, it’s a tougher one for him, it’s a tougher one.”
Jimmy Lai
Trump added: “He said, he told me, Jimmy Lai is a tough one for him to do.” Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty in December on charges of foreign collusion and seditious publication and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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