Senators Urge UK, US to Help Secure Release of Hong Kong Democracy Activist Jimmy Lai

Senators Urge UK, US to Help Secure Release of Hong Kong Democracy Activist Jimmy Lai

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help secure the release of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, whom they described as “wrongly imprisoned.” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 50 bipartisan colleagues in a Sept. 17 letter to Starmer, warning “time is running out” for Lai, a British citizen, due …