Moody Calls On Trump To Push For Release Of Pro-Democracy Leader

(Washington, DC) -- Florida's senators want President Trump to push China to release a political prisoner. Senator Ashley Moody announced yesterday she, Senator Rick Scott and others wrote a letter to Trump ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In the letter, the senators ask Trump to secure the release of Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Jimmy Lai [[Lie]]. Moody says the 78-year-old has been unjustly imprisoned in China for five years, and he faces deteriorating health conditions.