#HONG KONG: Mark Simon, Jimmy Lai's long-time deputy and director at the now-closed Apple Daily. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
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#HONG KONG: Mark Simon, Jimmy Lai's long-time deputy and director at the now-closed Apple Daily. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hongkong-jimmy-lai-trial-national-security-law-07262024131611.html
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, I and the World. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcoming my friend and colleague Gordon Chang |
| 0:41.0 | at Gordon G Chang. And we're welcoming our colleague and very good source of |
| 0:46.2 | information, Mark Simon, long time deputy and director at the now closed Appletale in |
| 0:52.3 | Hong Kong, working with Jimmy Lye, who remains detained by the People's |
| 0:57.2 | Liberation Army Navy and Air Force, the PRC, any other authority on the mainland of China, making very sure that |
| 1:06.6 | Jimmy Lai and a number of former editors and workers at the Apple Daily remained persecuted. We have a promising headline, however, |
| 1:15.0 | from Radio Free Asia. It's about Jimmy Lie, but it's also about the British government. |
| 1:21.0 | Trial delay sparks calls for release of Hong Kong's Jimmy Lie. |
| 1:27.0 | Lie's son and legal team call on British government to act amid growing concerns for his health while he's kept in solitary. |
| 1:35.2 | Mark, a very good day to you. It is time to review the options here available to |
| 1:41.8 | Jimmy Lye because he's a citizen of the United Kingdom. |
| 1:46.0 | What can be done? |
| 1:47.0 | Good evening, Mark. |
| 1:48.0 | Good evening. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, Jimmy is a full British citizens and that's, that's's not a dual passport holder he's a full British citizen and that's very important with the Brits a little bit different than the Americans. They move really only on that. |
| 2:02.0 | Basically Jimmy has been on trial for coming up now, seven months. |
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