Lawyers for jailed Hong Kong publisher seek meeting with Sunak

Jimmy Lai is serving a jail sentence (Kin Cheung/AP)

Lawyers for a jailed Hong Kong newspaper publisher have asked for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Jimmy Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, was arrested in 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.