The trial is incredibly important because my dad represents a few different pieces of society, and because of how he was persecuted...prosecuted, he represents the free press in this trial. He also represents someone who has supported the pro-democracy movement—someone who's given everything for the pro-democracy movement—but he also represents a businessman and a publisher, and essentially all these functions that he holds are now being put on trial. It's impossible to put him in prison and say that you still have a free press because all he did was publish the truth, which is pro-democracy and critical of the government. In a sense Hong Kong is putting these values—the free press, freedom of speech and its rule of law—on trial with what they're doing to my father.
On February 6th, 2024. See this statement in context.