Sebastien Lai

That it was kind of like, you know, almost tailor-made for him, so to speak.

I honestly have thought about that a lot and I didn't and I keep thinking about why I did not do it because even at that point I knew that there was a possibility that I'd never see my father again if he stayed in Hong Kong.

I also knew that there's a few opportunities in life where you're

where you're called, you know, almost by your principles to do the right thing.

And obviously everybody knows that leaving would have been a much more comfortable choice, but he knew that it was the wrong choice.

And as a son, I could see that he knew that it was the wrong choice.

He knew that he was a captain and that he needed to go down with the ship.

And that by staying, he could almost act as a lightning rod for the persecution to come.

So I was actually, I was on a business trip in Taiwan.

And if you remember back in those days, it was quarantine.

So I was still in quarantine.

Then someone knocks on my door at five in the morning and tells me that dad had been arrested, that they sent dozens of national security police officers to our home to grab him and then walk him through his own office.

Yeah, to say something to the world and to all his journalists as well.

And, yeah, I thought I was going to go back to Hong Kong, but they started arresting other people.

And, yeah, and I knew that it wasn't safe.

When I first heard that he was arrested, I wanted to do what I can to free my father.

Yeah.

I actually, I think that that might be something that you have to ask me again in four, five years.

I mean, I think some part of me obviously wants to see him more than anything.

I haven't seen him in five years.