News that detained Taiwanese businessman Morrison Lee Meng-chu has been freed in China from his jail term, but remains unable to return to Taiwan broke yesterday...
Civil society groups demonstrated on Friday, March 18th to call for the release of imprisoned Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che in China. The demonstration took place the night prior to the fifth anniversary of Lee’s detention, which took place after he crossed into China from Macau on March 19th, 2017...
The issue of Taiwanese extradited to China from abroad for criminal charges, instead of being sent back to Taiwan, has been focused on in the media as of late. In particular, the issue has become more widely discussed after a report by NGO Safeguard Defenders...
Civil society organizations rallied earlier this week, to call attention to the continued plight of Lee Ming-che. Lee, a human rights NGO worker who was kidnapped while entering China from Macau in March 2017, has now been imprisoned for four-and-a-half years...
The Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing newspaper, reported over the last week that the Chinese government is planning on creating a list of individuals of Taiwanese independence advocates that it will seek to imprison...
Last week, one observed the Chinese government parading Taiwanese currently imprisoned in China on television, with the claim that they are Taiwanese spies. Televised confessions of guilt were broadcast in order to reinforce this claim...
Yesterday was the third anniversary of the kidnapping of Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che. Lee, currently 45, disappeared in March 2017 after crossing over into China from Macau. Lee was detained on charges of seeking to subvert state power. Lee has now been detained for over 1,000 days...
Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish national who is one of the kidnapped Causeway Bay booksellers, was sentenced to ten years in jail by the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court on Monday. Gui is accused of illegally providing intelligence to overseas political parties...
The revelation earlier this month that Shih Cheng-ping, 56, a retired professor who formerly taught at National Taiwan Normal University and a member of the KMT, has been detained in China for over a year once again points to China’s arbitrary detention of Taiwanese...
