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[Op-ed by Benedict Rogers, Senior Director of Fortify Rights and a co-founder and trustee of Hong Kong Watch.]

Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture, designed to break the prisoner’s spirit. Under international law, “prolonged solitary confinement” is defined as exceeding 15 days.

British citizen and 77 year-old media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, in jail in Hong Kong, has now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime.

He has already served several prison sentences on multiple trumped-up charges, including 13 months for lighting a candle and saying a prayer at a vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 26 points 2 days ago (6 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai

In May 2020, Lai told CNN news that US president Donald Trump was "the only one who can save us" from China, with Apple Daily publishing a similar plea addressed to Trump the same month.

There's something ironic about this...

"Master Skywalker, save me!"

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, being against one authoritarian regime does not inherently guarantee the ability to correctly identify others, it would seem.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 7 points 2 days ago

Trump was president during the Hong Kong crackdown, they were begging for help.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

It was a weird time back then because my dad, who is pro China, and I who lives in the west and otherwise on the pro democracy side, can agree on not liking Trump.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago

Could be worse (but not by much). Some protesters in 2019/20 had the UK and Hong Kong British colonial flag