Name: 香港法院判處媒體大亨、英國公民黎智英入獄！ | BBC News (Hong Kong court jails media tycoon and British citizen Jimmy Lai | BBC News)
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The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of foreign collusion and sedition.

香港媒體大亨、民主運動人士黎智英因被控外國勾結及煽動叛亂，被判處二十年有期徒刑。

It's the harshest punishment yet handed out under the territory's strict national security law.

這是香港嚴酷的國家安全法實施以來，最嚴厲的判決。

黎先生是英國公民，今年七十八歲。

His family says the sentence is cruel and draconian.

他的家人表示，這項判決既殘酷又嚴酷。

Well, we can speak now to Jimmy's son, Sebastian Lai.

好的，現在我們可以跟黎智英的兒子 Sebastian Lai 聊聊了。

Mr. Lai, thank you very much for joining us.

黎先生，非常感謝您接受我們的訪問。

Please give us your reaction, first of all, to this, this sentence, which is the harshest so far handed down.

請您先談談您對這項迄今為止最嚴厲的判決有什麼看法。

It's obviously heartbreaking, but unfortunately, it's not unexpected.

這真的很令人心碎，但很可惜，這並不令人意外。

Look, I think what was unexpected was that it took five years to get to this point.

這樣說吧，我認為令人意外的是，竟然花了五年才走到這一步。

The last five years my father has spent in solid confinement in the maximum security prison.

過去五年，我父親一直被關押在最高安全級別監獄裡。

But the outcome to this, this life sentence, essentially he's 78.

但這個結果，這個無期徒刑，他已經78歲了。

So even if he got three more years, that.

That could very well be a death sentence.

This life sentence is something that he always knew that was a possibility, you know, even five years ago.

這個無期徒刑，是他一直知道的可能，你知道的，就連五年前也是。

Five years ago, even 30 years ago, when he decided to start campaigning for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong.

五年前，甚至三十年前，當他決定開始為香港的自由與民主爭取的時候。

China has said that the sentencing is legitimate.

They believe that your father was putting the city's stability at stake.

他們認為您父親危及了城市的穩定。

How would you characterize the trial he received?

There's allegations of witnesses being tortured.

Multiple states NGOs have called for my father's release.

許多國際非政府組織都呼籲要釋放我父親。

The United nations have called for my father's release.

所以這根本就是標準的政治審判。

I mean, look, this charge of collusion with foreign forces, Collusion, necessities necessary.

說真的，你看，這個勾結外國勢力的指控，勾結，需要有必要的。

And all that I found is that the nefarious benefit for my father would have been democracy in Hong Kong.

而我發現我父親的邪惡利益，就是香港的民主。

That was promised in the joint declaration.

Tell us what your concerns are for him and his other former colleagues who've been put in prison as well.

請告訴我們您對他以及其他同樣被監禁的前同事們有什麼擔憂。

How much contact are you likely to have with him?

您大概有多大的機會能和他聯繫？

Unfortunately, because I advocate on his behalf, I can't go back to Hong Kong.

很可惜，因為我為他爭取權益，我無法回到香港。

And, yeah, it's obviously tremendously heartbreaking because many of my father's colleagues and other people who were arrested were to put up this show trial.

是的，這實在是令人心碎，因為我父親的許多同事和其他被捕的人都將面臨這場政治審判。

So there's this immensely cruel thing that they're doing, ruining all these people's lives in order to essentially get to my father.

他們做的這件事非常殘酷，為了對付我父親，就這樣毀了這麼多人的生活。

I mean, they've kept this man who's a hero to many in the world.

我的意思是，他們把一個在全世界許多人心目中的英雄關了起來。

For five years in prison, they've destroyed their legal system.

讓一個人坐了五年的牢，他們就這樣破壞了他們的法治。

正如我們所說，他是英國公民。

What more would you like the UK government to do?

您希望英國政府還能做些什麼？

Because I have heard it described by your father's supporters that it was a wasted opportunity when Sir Keir Starmer went to China.

因為我聽您父親的支持者說，葛瑞·史塔瑪爵士去中國時，那是一個錯失的機會。

You know, unfortunately, time is running out for my father.

說真的，很可惜，我父親的時間不多了。

At his age, given the conditions he's in, he's got heart issues.

以他的年紀，加上他目前的狀況，他有心臟方面的問題。

He's lost 10 kilos over the last year alone.

And in a time when we're talking about closer relationships to China, a normalization of relationships, you know, despite all the national security concerns that we have, rightly so, in this country.

在我們談論與中國關係越來越近、關係正常化的現在，即使我們對國家安全有合理的擔憂。

If they can't even put a 78 year old man who's guilty of nothing more than giving all that he has to stand up for freedom and liberty for the people of Hong Kong on a plane and sending him back here now, especially given his deteriorating health, and

如果他們連一個七十八歲、只是為了香港人民的自由和解放貢獻一切卻無罪的人，都不能讓他現在搭飛機回這裡，尤其考量到他健康惡化，

that tells you all you need to know about the relationship that we have with China.

這就告訴你我們與中國關係的真實情況了。

What regrets does he have given what's happened to him?

鑑於他所經歷的一切，他有什麼遺憾嗎？

I think, look, I think when you hear stories like my father's about courage that he's faced in these situations, people think of men that have no fear.

我覺得，你看，當你聽到我父親這樣關於他在這些情況下展現的勇氣的故事時，人們會想到那些無所畏懼的男人。

But I guarantee you, I know my father, he fears.

但我向你保證，我瞭解我父親，他也會害怕。

But what he doesn't fear, what he knows that he has done, is that he's given everything that he has to stand up for his beliefs, to stand up for his colleague, to stand up for the people of Hong Kong.

但他並不害怕，他知道自己所做的一切，就是他傾盡所有來堅持自己的信念，支持他的同事，支持香港人民。

In the end, this is a man who at every turn did the right thing.

說到底，這是一個在任何時候都做對了事的男人。

And I hope that our country is also proud of him.

我希望我們的國家也為他感到驕傲。

What do you believe his sentence means for Hong Kong?

你認為他的判決對香港意味著什麼？

I think it's obviously devastating, but it's also a tremendous faux pas.

我認為這顯然是毀滅性的，但這也是一個巨大的失誤。

It's not the smart move because you've essentially destroyed your legal system.

這不是明智之舉，因為你們基本上摧毀了自己的法律體系。

You've essentially decided to weaponize a legal system to, to go after a man who's a hero to many around the world, to destroy his newspaper, to arrest a few of his colleagues.

你們基本上決定將法律體系武器化，去對付一個在全世界許多人眼中都是英雄的人，去摧毀他的報社，去逮捕他的一些同事。

And there's no benefit to it because after five years, after a tremendously long trial, they have found nothing.

而且毫無益處，因為經過五年，經過漫長的審判，他們一無所獲。

They have found a man who has given everything that he has for freedom.

他們找到了一位為自由付出一切的人。

There's no, you know, there's no evidence that incriminate him.

沒有，你知道的，沒有任何證據能指控他。

So Hong Kong now has spent this tremendous amount of money, destroyed what was its competitive advantage, a very strong legal system, to go after my father and have nothing to show for it.

所以香港現在花了這麼多錢，摧毀了它原有的競爭優勢，一個非常強大的法律體系，來對付我的父親，結果卻一無所獲。

What hopes do you have that the authorities will cut short his sentence and release him?

你們希望當局能縮短他的刑期並釋放他嗎？

I do not know, but that's why it's so important to push for it.

我不知道，但這就是為什麼爭取這麼重要。

A man who has given up so much, so many years, so much time for freedom and democracy, deserves a bit of freedom himself.

一位為了自由與民主付出這麼多、這麼多年、這麼多時間的人，他自己也應該享有那麼一點自由。

Sebastian Lai, thank you very much for talking to us here on BBC News.

Sebastian Lai，非常感謝你今天在 BBC 新聞接受我們的訪問。