This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Jimmy Lai is one of the most heroic men in the world today. As a penniless youth in 1961, he fled Communist China to the British colony of Hong Kong, where he became a wildly successful entrepreneur and billionaire. 

Jimmy courageously used his media empire and personal resources to support opposition to China’s Communist Party and persisted in doing so even after Great Britain surrendered the city and the CCP inexorably crushed freedom there. 

Today, after five years in prison, most of it spent in solitary confinement, Jimmy Lai is standing trial for alleged national security crimes. His conviction is inevitable. 

There must be real costs to Communist China for its mistreatment of this extraordinary hero – and all those in Hong Kong and the mainland for whose freedom he has fought for so long and at such immense personal expense. 

This is Frank Gaffney.