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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48301399
The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father’s deteriorating health in prison, saying that his fingernails “sometimes fall off” and his teeth are rotting.
Lai, 78, has been detained since December 2020 and faces life in prison. Earlier this month he was convicted of colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law (NSL).
Hong Kong and Chinese authorities have denied that Lai has been mistreated in prison, saying he is in “good health”.
The BBC has seen a letter written by Lai’s family urging UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to call for Lai’s release when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping next month.
His daughter Claire Lai, who is in exile in London, told the BBC that she fears she “may never see him again”.
“Of course I worry that my father is going to be a martyr, and I don’t want him to be a martyr. But I would not be here today, I would not be speaking out if I didn’t think this was his best chance of reuniting with our family.”
She described her father as an “extremely robust and strong man” when he went to prison, but said over the last year he has “lost a significant amount of weight”.
"He is diabetic, he has heart issues which he never had in the past. He has fingernails that turn purplish grey and sometimes fall off. He has teeth that are rotting.
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Prisons should exclusively be used for reeducation, and failing that, safely isolating dangerous individuals.
But of all the people being subjected to pointless cruelty in prisons right now, I’m sure as hell not gonna shed a tear for an ultra-rich comprador.
I’m sure as hell not gonna shed a tear for an ultra-rich comprador.
This comments tells a lot about you and your ‘world view’ -or, better, where you got it from. It’s from a community that literally cheers violence and supports authoritarian regimes (Source).
Prison abolition, the most authoritarian of views.
But of all the people being subjected to pointless cruelty in prisons right now, I’m sure as hell not gonna shed a tear for an ultra-rich comprador.
And that’s perhaps where your social culture shows its fatal flaw. Perhaps that man is in prison, unlike most other “ultra-rich compradors”, exactly because he was in some sense better than many of them. Perhaps you are showing your result of an evolutionary test right here. Weighed, measured and found wanting.
While typing this, did you even get the thought that’s most logical for me - did you “shed a tear” even once when reading a similar article about someone who’s not an “ultra-rich comprador”? Or was the difference in you simply commenting nothing in that case? Was it that in neither situation you’d shed a tear, but in this one you’d be proud of it and in the other one you’d just go on with your life?
Prisons should exclusively be used for reeducation, and failing that, safely isolating dangerous individuals.
While I like “Starship Troopers” as a book, I strongly prefer restitution justice to reeducation justice, because the latter principle leads to gulags and the former principle may lead to something like chattel slavery, but at least nobody will put effort into changing your conscience.
Both are different from punitive justice, of course. That’s not justice at all.
did you “shed a tear” even once when reading a similar article about someone who’s not an “ultra-rich comprador”?
Oh god, do you mean they write articles about abuses of poor prisoners? Maybe you can see some from that high horse, but I can’t
I see some in my language from time to time, yes. Admittedly all rich prisoners who could be jailed have already been jailed and liberated of their property long ago here. It’s Russia.
did you even get the thought that’s most logical for me - did you “shed a tear” even once when reading a similar article about someone who’s not an “ultra-rich comprador”?
Yes, the whole point was that the case strained my principles, which apply to everyone.
Yes, the whole point was that the case strained my principles, which apply to everyone.
Meaning that you remember the last case you saw a similar post about someone who’s not of said group, and you did shed a tear?