{"id":75483,"date":"2025-12-03T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/jimmy-lai-health-concern-hong-kong-prison"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:18","slug":"family-alarmed-over-jimmy-lais-deteriorating-health-as-he-languishes-in-solitary-confinement-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75483","title":{"rendered":"Family alarmed over Jimmy Lai\u2019s deteriorating health as he languishes in solitary confinement in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong media mogul has suffered dramatic weight loss and other worrying ailments since being jailed in 2020, Lai\u2019s family say<\/p>\n<p>The children of Hong Kong\u2019s jailed pro-democracy media mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jimmy-lai\">Jimmy Lai<\/a> have voiced new alarm for his health, describing his dramatic weight loss, teeth rotting and nails turning green before falling off.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, who turns 78 next Monday, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/jimmy-lai-national-security-trial-hong-kong-media-democracy\">behind bars in Hong Kong since late 2020<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> clamps down on the financial hub to which it promised a separate system when Britain handed it over in 1997.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/03\/jimmy-lai-health-concern-hong-kong-prison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong media mogul has suffered dramatic weight loss and other worrying ailments since being jailed in 2020, Lai\u2019s family sayThe children of Hong Kong\u2019s jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai have voiced new alarm for his health, describing his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,48,3034,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75483","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75484,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75483\/revisions\/75484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}