PRESS RELEASE: On Wednesday 13th March, senior lawyer Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws KC, and Miriam Lexmann MEP, joined four of those accused of “conspiracy to undermine national security” in the Hong Kong trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai, published comments condemning alleged torture and coercion of a key prosecution witness. The politicians and alleged […]
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IPAC Statement on Attempts to Implicate Secretariat Members in the Trial of Jimmy Lai
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) strongly condemns attempts to implicate members of its secretariat in the sham trial of UK citizen Jimmy Lai. The naming of IPAC executive director Luke de Pulford and IPAC’s Japan director, Shiori Yamao (now Kanno), together with other human rights defenders as “co-conspirators” in Mr Lai’s trial is an […]
