The UK will press for consular access to Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai as Western governments are closely scrutinizing the high-profile national security trial of the former media mogul.

“We have absolutely done everything, and we continue to ask for consular access for Jimmy Lai,” Anne-Marie Trevelyan, UK Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific, said in a parliamentary debate on Monday over Lai’s trial in the city. “We are very comfortable and certain that he is indeed a British citizen.”