The whole trial itself is based upon a fallacious premise that, through both diplomatic and media means, we need to keep rebutting. There is no crime here, and yet Jimmy has already been pronounced guilty by the Chinese political authorities. If you go back and look at the media, you see that they have already termed him the most dangerous criminal in Hong Kong. They predetermined what the attitude is. There's no question of innocence or guilt; it's just a question of their mounting a show to demonstrate that he's guilty of something. He's guilty of being political. He's guilty of reporting. He's guilty of supporting democracy. He's guilty of standing at a vigil. Those are the things that he's guilty of.
The diplomatic and media worlds need to keep pointing out this truth. The whole premise of what the Hong Kong government and the Chinese authorities are trying to do is to pretend that everything's fine—this is just one episode of one criminal. It's not just one, by the way, as we've noted. There are more than 1,700 political prisoners in jails. One of the more pernicious things that the authorities are doing is the so-called “Hong Kong 47”. The other witnesses, who are testifying against Jimmy, are being held without bail until the conclusion of the trial, to exert pressure on them and to make sure that they say the right thing when they come before a court.
This whole thing is a farce, and the only way to rebut it is to use the diplomatic means and the media means that all of us have at our disposal—political means—to constantly make the case that what's happening here is completely unjust. Jimmy is a symbol of these many other people whose rights are being trampled now.