Canada – The Globe And Mail, Nov. 13, 2025
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper raised the plight of jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai at the G7 foreign ministers’ summit in Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ont., this week, with the powerful group of countries agreeing to collaborate on his case.
Ms. Cooper’s intervention at a working dinner for ministers focusing on global peace and security was hailed as an important breakthrough by his lawyers.
The summit was held in an Ontario town where Mr. Lai’s close family live and where he owns a string of hotels and restaurants.
The gathering was attended by foreign ministers from Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain, as well as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union.
A spokesperson for the British government said in a statement on Wednesday “that the Foreign Secretary raised Jimmy Lai’s case with her G7 counterparts during last night’s working dinner, and the group agreed to continue working together on next steps.”
