{"id":76215,"date":"2026-02-04T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/03\/jimmy-lais-son-says-uk-government-did-not-do-enough-to-help-him-on-china-visit"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:42:28","slug":"jimmy-lais-son-says-uk-government-did-not-do-enough-to-help-him-on-china-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76215","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai\u2019s son says UK government did not do enough to help him on China visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Lai criticises ministers for not putting conditions on his father\u2019s release during Beijing trip<\/p>\n<p>The British son of the jailed Hong Kong media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has criticised the UK government for failing to place conditions on his father\u2019s release during the prime minister\u2019s visit to China last week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, Sebastien Lai said his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/15\/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges\">father\u2019s incarceration<\/a> was not only a humanitarian and national security issue, but an issue \u201cwhere our values are being locked up\u201d along with him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/03\/jimmy-lais-son-says-uk-government-did-not-do-enough-to-help-him-on-china-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Lai criticises ministers for not putting conditions on his father\u2019s release during Beijing tripThe British son of the jailed Hong Kong media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has criticised the UK government for failing to place conditions on his father&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"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":[50,48,3034,1622,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-jimmy-lai","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76215","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\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76215\/revisions\/76216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}