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Trump offers Xi ‘any arrangement’ to secure Jimmy Lai’s freedom
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Trump offers Xi ‘any arrangement’ to secure Jimmy Lai’s freedom

The Independent·Alisha Rahaman Sarkar·18 days ago
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US president Donald Trump has offered China "any arrangement" to secure the freedom of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai during his visit to Beijing , secretary of state Marco Rubio said. Ahead of his high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week, Mr Trump had said he would raise Mr Lai’s imprisonment in Hong Kong and the arrest of pastor Jin Mingri of Zion Church in the mainland. “The president always raises that case and a couple others, and obviously we’ll hope to get a positive response from that,” Mr Rubio on Thursday told NBC News. “We’d be open to any arrangement that would work for them, as long as he’s given his freedom,” he said of Mr Lai. The 78-year-old founder of Apple Daily, which was Hong Kong's most vocal pro-democracy newspaper before being shuttered due to state pressure, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February on disputed collusion and sedition charges. The British citizen has denied any wrongdoing.…

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