G7 foreign ministers pressed to raise Jimmy Lai’s plight during Niagara summit

Jimmy Lai is escorted by Correctional Services officers in Hong Kong, in December, 2020. the jailed Hong Kong businessman and publisher has invested millions in the Niagara area, where he owns a string of hotels and restaurants.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is facing calls to raise the plight of jailed publisher Jimmy Lai at next month’s G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Ontario’s Niagara Region, where the Hong Kong businessman has invested millions and owns a string of hotels and restaurants.

MPs and human-rights advocates, as well as the chief executive of Mr. Lai’s Canadian hospitality company, are urging the G7 to highlight his continued incarceration in Hong Kong and are calling for him to be freed after almost five years in solitary confinement.

Mr. Lai, whose mother wa