Pair of U.S. lawmakers nominate Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai for Nobel Peace Prize

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Open this photo in gallery: Hong Kong publisher and pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal, in Hong Kong, on Feb. 1, 2021.STR/Getty Images A pair of U.S. lawmakers have nominated Hong Kong publisher and pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai for the Nobel Peace Prize, along with jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti and Chinese legal activists Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong. In a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway, Representative Chris Smith and Senator Jeffrey Merkley, chairs of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said the nominees deserved...