🚨This new account of Jimmy Lai's prison conditions in Hong Kong from @dannydvincent is absolutely shocking.

It reveals that the 78-year-old Lai, who is serving 20 years on sham national security charges, is being kept in solitary confinement — not just in a single cell, but an entirely empty floor of the maximum security Stanley Prison.

Authorities have stopped sending Lai's family medical reports, and he can now barely stand without assistance from guards.

The piece also uncovers how, after almost six years spending 23 hours a day largely alone in his cell, Lai's Catholic faith sustains him:

"Truth and justice must stand above our comfort and wellbeing," Lai wrote in one letter, before referencing the Gospel of Matthew: "Otherwise, our lives will be lived with a 'millstone hung on our neck'."

Clearly, Jimmy Lai has found freedom in his faith despite his physical captivity.

He does not have long left.

It makes no sense for Xi Jinping to allow the Apple Daily founder to die a martyr in prison.

We're calling on Xi and President Trump to #FreeJimmyLai when they meet at the White House in September.

If they fail to do so, the pro-democracy publisher's final story will teach generations to come a vital lesson: Never trust the Chinese Communist Party.

https://t.co/Jz23KvoQNJ