Jimmy Lai is a ‘hostage’, says daughter, as HK court issues 20-year sentence

Claire Lai told The Pillar that her father is treating his incarceration as a kind of “evangelization.”

After Catholic newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, his daughter Claire Lai told The Pillar that her father is committed to treating his incarceration as a kind of “evangelization.”

Claire Lai added her family’s hope that international pressure on the Beijing Chinese government might eventually secure her father’s rel…