{"id":71903,"date":"2025-05-21T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/21\/former-prisoners-and-hostages-urge-starmer-to-secure-release-of-jimmy-lai"},"modified":"2025-05-21T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:24:43","slug":"former-prisoners-and-hostages-urge-starmer-to-secure-release-of-jimmy-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71903","title":{"rendered":"Former prisoners and hostages urge Starmer to secure release of Jimmy Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call for UK PM to act urgently over pro-democracy campaigner who has spent 1,602 days in solitary confinement<\/p>\n<p>Former prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad have urged the UK prime minister to urgently secure the release of the pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai before he dies in a Hong Kong jail.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old media mogul, who is a British citizen, has been held in solitary confinement for 1,602 days and his family fears he might not survive another summer in Hong Kong, where temperatures can reach 40C (104F).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/21\/former-prisoners-and-hostages-urge-starmer-to-secure-release-of-jimmy-lai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for UK PM to act urgently over pro-democracy campaigner who has spent 1,602 days in solitary confinementFormer prisoners and hostages wrongly held abroad have urged the UK prime minister to urgently secure the release of the pro-democracy campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"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":[41,50,48,3034,1622,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71903","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\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71903\/revisions\/71904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}