A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help secure the release of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai, whom they described as “wrongly imprisoned.”
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 50 bipartisan colleagues in a Sept. 17 letter to Starmer, warning “time is running out” for Lai, a British citizen, due to his deteriorating health. The senators said that the longer he remains in prison, the greater the risk of an “untimely death.”
U.S. President Donald Trump is on his second day of a two-day state visit to the UK. In August, Trump told Fox News Radio that he would see what he could do to help “save” Lai….