Labour MPs urge Rachel Reeves to demand Jimmy Lai’s release

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UK chancellor will be first to make an official visit to China in a decade

Labour MPs have urged Rachel Reeves to demand Jimmy Lai’s release when she becomes the first UK chancellor to make an official visit to China in nearly a decade.

Nine Labour MPs have joined a cross-party call for Reeves to raise the detention of political prisoners in Hong Kong and ask for Lai’s “immediate and unconditional release”, during her visit to China this weekend.

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source: The Guardian - 11.01.2025

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