Keir Starmer must not forget Jimmy Lai

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Such declarations by UN bodies are helpful.
54% : Other democracies - from the European Union to Canada, Australia, Japan and beyond - must also weigh in.
50% : It is the responsibility of UN member states - especially the United Kingdom, given that Lai is a British citizen - to pull out all the stops to secure his release.
44% : Lai's imprisonment was declared arbitrary and unlawful by the United Nations working group on arbitrary detention, which called for his immediate release, as did five UN special rapporteurs.
43% : In September, his son Sebastien, together with his international legal team, submitted a new urgent appeal to United Nations (UN) experts - the special rapporteur on torture, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and the special rapporteur on the right to health - in relation to the serious and immediate risk to Lai's life posed by his ongoing detention.
43% : On January 31, 2024 the UN announced that the special rapporteur on torture had written to the authorities in China to address claims that the evidence of a key prosecution witness in Lai's trial had been obtained through torture.

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