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Cato Video • May 19, 2023 

# Jimmy Lai — Recipient of the 2023 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty 

Jimmy Lai has become a powerful symbol of the struggle for democratic rights and press freedom in Hong Kong as China’s Communist Party exerts ever greater control over the territory. In prison and denied bail, Lai is an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate for democracy who faces charges that could keep him in jail for the rest of his life.

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