.AP got a rare glimpse of jailed publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai. The media tycoon spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in a maximum-security facility and is allowed only 50 minutes to exercise.
Photographers used to be able to catch a glimpse of activists in remand at another detention center in Lai Chi Kok as they were taken to and from court. Authorities started blocking this view in 2021 by making the detainees walk through a covered pathway.
Jimmy Lai walks through the Stanley prison in Hong Kong, Friday, July 28, 2023. The Associated Press got a rare glimpse of the jailed 75-year-old publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist Lai. He was scheduled to go on trial last December, but it was postponed to September while the Hong Kong government appealed to Beijing to“My father is in prison because he spoke truth to power for decades,” Lai’s son, Sebastien, said in a May statement to a U.S. government panel, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Jimmy Lai, right, enters his building after he exercises at the Stanley prison in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. The Associated Press got a rare glimpse of the jailed 75-year-old publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist Lai. Jimmy Lai waits to enter his building after he exercises at the Stanley prison in Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. The Associated Press got a rare glimpse of the jailed 75-year-old publisher and prominent pro-democracy activist Lai.
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