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Taiwan condemns 'harsh' sentence for Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council calls the 20-year sentence political persecution and urges global support to defend democracy and human rights against Beijing's erosion efforts.
- Yesterday, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council strongly condemned what it called `political persecution` after Jimmy Lai was sentenced under Hong Kong's National Security Law and urged Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to `stop the political persecution and immediately release Lai`.
- As background, MAC said the CCP and Hong Kong government used national security as a pretext to suppress freedom and human rights.
- Reporters Without Borders' Thibaut Bruttin called Lai's 20-year sentence a sign of press freedom collapse and urged democratic nations to pressure China, noting Lai is a British citizen.
- MAC urged the Taiwanese public to safeguard their `hard-won freedoms` and called on the international community to remain alert to Beijing's erosion of human rights.
- Reporters Without Borders' Thibaut Bruttin urged democratic nations to exert international pressure, noting Lai is a British citizen and it `must not become a death sentence`.
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Taiwan condemns 'political persecution' after Jimmy Lai gets 20-year sentence - Focus Taiwan
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Monday "strongly condemned" what it called the "political persecution" by Chinese authorities after Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Hong Kong National Security Law (HKNSL).
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