Jimmy Lai's son says the jailed Hong Kong media tycoon 'refuses to be cowed'

The son of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and publisher Jimmy Lai says his father "refuses to be cowed" by Chinese authorities as he marks 1,000 days behind bars and faces the threat of life imprisonment. In an interview with NBC News in London, Sebastien Lai said his father, a wealthy businessman with British citizenship, could have easily fled Hong Kong to avoid a crackdown on pro-democracy activists but chose to stay to fight for his beliefs. “For someone to give up everything he has to stand up for freedom is an incredibly rare thing,” said the younger Lai who…