Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, pictured in July, 2020, is facing life imprisonment under the Beijing-imposed national security law.

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

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