The Railroading of Jimmy Lai

The “first among the four evils” is unlikely to ever emerge from prison

By: Samuel Bickett

Tomorrow, December 18, Jimmy Lai will be awakened at dawn in his isolated sleeping cell at Hong Kong’s Stanley Prison and marched to the prison’s central administration holding cells. He’ll be handed a lukewarm breakfast of rice, vegetables, and a few slivers of meat, and then handcuffed and marched to a van, where he’ll be driven to t…