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The ordeal of Hong Kong businessman and Catholic convert Jimmy Lai continues as he awaits trial on trumped-up charges of violating China's national security. As faithful lay Catholics, we urge the Holy See to break its silence on this matter by demanding Mr. Lai’s immediate release.
Mr. Lai’s international legal team has submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture. It claims that the 76-year-old publisher has been in solitary confinement, often in his cell for 23 hours and 10 minutes a day, since late 2020; that he is diabetic, but has been denied access to independent medical care; and that the facility where he has been held is infamous for subjecting prisoners in solitary confinement to intolerable round-the-clock lighting and extreme temperatures. Mr. Lai is a convert to Catholicism; although he has been permitted occasional visits from priests, prison officials have banned them from bringing him Holy Communion.
Not even the most infamous criminals are subjected to this level of mistreatment in the United States. Why has the Holy See not condemned such cruelty?
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Mr. Lai’s international legal team has submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture. It claims that the 76-year-old publisher has been in solitary confinement, often in his cell for 23 hours and 10 minutes a day, since late 2020; that he is diabetic, but has been denied access to independent medical care; and that the facility where he has been held is infamous for subjecting prisoners in solitary confinement to intolerable round-the-clock lighting and extreme temperatures. Mr. Lai is a convert to Catholicism; although he has been permitted occasional visits from priests, prison officials have banned them from bringing him Holy Communion.
Not even the most infamous criminals are subjected to this level of mistreatment in the United States. Why has the Holy See not condemned such cruelty?
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Jimmy Lai: A Victim of the Dangerous Silence of Vatican-China Relations
The ordeal of Hong Kong businessman and Catholic convert Jimmy Lai continues as he awaits trial on trumped-up charges of violating China's national security. As faithful lay Catholics, we urge the Hol
