A UK charity that advocates for British nationals imprisoned overseas has rejected pressure to oust British judge David Neuberger as a trustee over his role in rejecting an appeal by media tycoon Jimmy Lai. Lai, who founded the Apple Daily newspaper and is a UK national, has been detained since December 2021 for allegedly violating Beijing’s national security law. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is currently serving five years and nine months in a maximum security prison for fraud, where news agency AP reported last August he was placed in solitary confinement…
