{"id":60701,"date":"2023-12-23T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/23\/jimmy-lai-democracy-activist-trial-hong-kong-son-sebastien-interview"},"modified":"2023-12-23T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:00:08","slug":"im-very-proud-of-him-sebastien-lai-on-hong-kong-accountability-and-his-father-jimmys-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60701","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m very proud of him\u2019: Sebastien Lai on Hong Kong, accountability and his father Jimmy\u2019s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Lai hasn\u2019t spoken to his father in three years, but says he supports the stance the veteran pro-democracy activist has taken<\/p>\n<p>Sebastien Lai is sitting in a downtown coffee shop, on a blustery day in Taipei. The 28-year-old was only recently married, but is spending much of his time flying around the world advocating for his father\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, his father, Jimmy Lai, the prominent media mogul and democracy activist, went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/17\/jimmy-lai-trial-begins-hong-kong\">on trial in Hong Kong<\/a>. Lai senior is accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the 2020 national security law, and conspiring to publish seditious material, under a colonial-era sedition law. He faces up to life in prison for the more serious charges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/23\/jimmy-lai-democracy-activist-trial-hong-kong-son-sebastien-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Lai hasn\u2019t spoken to his father in three years, but says he supports the stance the veteran pro-democracy activist has takenSebastien Lai is sitting in a downtown coffee shop, on a blustery day in Taipei. The 28-year-old was only recently mar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,3034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60701\/revisions\/60709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}