{"id":345526,"date":"2025-08-15T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345526\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:25:11","slug":"jimmy-lai-hong-kong-pro-democracy-tycoons-national-security-trial-adjourned-over-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345526\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon\u2019s national security trial adjourned over health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concerns over Jimmy Lai’s health in detentionpublished at 03:47 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

03:47 BST<\/p>\n

Today’s court case has now been adjourned until Monday, due to concerns over the 77-year-old Lai’s health. <\/p>\n

Lai’s family and legal team have over the past few years consistently raised concerns about his health, pointing to recent court appearances where he looked visibly thinner.<\/p>\n

Lai has been held in detention since December 2020 and is already serving prison sentences for a range of other offences for his alleged role in pro-democracy protests in 2019. <\/p>\n

His international legal team said his living conditions “pose a grave risk to his physical and mental health”. His life may even be at risk, they warned, pointing to his age and diabetes.<\/p>\n

But the Hong Kong government has accused Lai’s lawyers of “unreasonably smearing” the prison conditions of the tycoon. <\/p>\n

And the Hong Kong lawyers representing Lai said he was receiving “appropriate medical attention” to his health, including for his diabetes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has access to daylight through the windows in the corridor outside his cell, albeit he cannot see the sky. He exercises for an hour every day in a secure area,” said the Robertsons law firm last September.<\/p>\n

The picture below, taken in 2023, is the last time Jimmy Lai was pictured – seen here wearing shorts and sandals and accompanied by two guards in Hong Kong’s Stanley Prison. <\/p>\n

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