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Jimmy Lai, the human rights advocate and outspoken Catholic who has faced what supporters say has been years of politicized prosecution and conviction in Hong Kong, was sentenced on Feb. 9 to 20 years in prison <\/strong>over what Chinese officials claim were national security violations. <\/p>\n

The sentencing comes after Lai’s December conviction<\/a> under China’s wide-reaching security law, which capped a years-long legal process during which he was found guilty on multiple other charges including fraud and unlawful assembly. <\/p>\n

Lai, who was known for years as the publisher of the outspoken pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, was first arrested in 2020 after alleged violations of Chinese national security policy.<\/p>\n

The government has charged him multiple times since then, holding him without bail and sentencing him to lengthy prison stretches, including a 69-month sentence in December 2022 for a fraud conviction. <\/p>\n

Lai’s plight has drawn support from around the world, including from high-ranking national leaders such as U.S. President Donald Trump, who has advocated for Lai’s release<\/a> and who reportedly spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> about the issue in October 2025. <\/p>\n

Lai has also drawn support from lawmakers, activists, religious leaders and civil rights leaders around the world. In 2025 he was named an honorary recipient of the Bradley Prize<\/a>. That award is meant to honor individuals who in part espouse “the ideals of the Western tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholic faith a central part of Lai’s life<\/h2>\n

Though known for his decades of pro-democracy activism, Lai is also an outspoken Catholic whose faith has continued to sustain him during his imprisonment. <\/p>\n

Having converted to Catholicism in 1997, Lai \u2014 along with his wife Teresa \u2014 raised his son Sebastien and daughter Claire in what Claire described as “a very loving Catholic family.” <\/p>\n

Claire told EWTN News in December 2025<\/a> that Lai’s incarceration “has just deepened his faith.” He has regularly read the Gospel when permitted by his prison guards, she said, and he “wants to be remembered [as] a faithful servant of Our Lord.”<\/p>\n

In February 2024 the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., installed a drawing of the Crucifixion<\/a> made by Lai. Father Robert Sirico, the founder of the Acton Institute and a supporter and friend of Lai\u2019s, told EWTN News at the time that Lai sees his imprisonment as a way of joining in Christ\u2019s passion on the cross.<\/p>\n

In November 2023 a group of 10 Catholic bishops and archbishops called on the Hong Kong government to release Lai,<\/a> arguing that his “persecution … has gone on long enough.” <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place for such cruelty and oppression in a territory that claims to uphold the rule of law and respect the right to freedom of expression,\u201d the prelates said.<\/p>\n

Long known for its greater respect for civil rights and freedom of speech relative to the Chinese mainland, the special administrative region of Hong Kong in recent years has seen a crackdown from the Chinese Communist Party government, which has tightened its hold on the region including with the strict national security law. <\/p>\n

In 2022 Father Vincent Woo, a priest of the Diocese of Hong Kong, told EWTN News<\/a> that religious leaders in the region face “tremendous consequences” if they criticize the government, with many priests or bishops consequently refusing to speak out publicly against the Communist Party. <\/p>\n

At a 2025 hearing of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, advocates warned of “severe violations of religious freedom<\/a>” by the Chinese Communist Party, with the government having reportedly \u201cforcibly eradicated religious elements that are not in line with the CCP\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claire Lai admitted in January<\/a> that her father’s “physical body is breaking down” in his protracted confinement, and he has been denied regular access to the Eucharist, she said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But, she told EWTN News Nightly, he continues to \u201cread the Gospel every morning” and spends his time \u201cpraying and drawing the Crucifixion and the Blessed Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

His faith “is what protects his mind and soul,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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