releases: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-releases-statement-on-guilty-verdict-against-jimmy-lai
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| url | title | date | year | month | party | chamber | state | member_name | bioguide_id | domain | scraper | source | date_source | text | has_text | collected_at | updated_at |
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| https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-releases-statement-on-guilty-verdict-against-jimmy-lai | Sen. Cruz Releases Statement On Guilty Verdict Against Jimmy Lai | 2025-12-16 | 2025 | 2025-12 | Republican | Senate | TX | Ted Cruz | C001098 | www.cruz.senate.gov | cruz | https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases | scraper | WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the announcement of a guilty verdict by the Hong Kong High Court against Jimmy Lai. In 2019, Sen. Cruz was in Hong Kong and met Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy dissidents, before he was arrested. Earlier this month, Sen. Cruz met with the family of Jimmy Lai, where he discussed the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party and his ongoing wrongful detention. | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T20:09:11Z |