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China lawyer's family says US helped them flee
UK Telegraph ^

Posted on 05/08/2017 8:29:02 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Stuck in a Bangkok jail with a deportation order against her, Chen Guiqiu waited with dread over what seemed certain to come next. A Thai immigration official showed her surveillance video of the jail entrance, where more than a dozen Chinese security agents were waiting.

Within minutes, Chen feared, she and her two daughters would be escorted back to China, where her husband, prominent rights lawyer Xie Yang, was held on a charge of inciting subversion - and where punishment for attempting to flee surely awaited her.

After weeks on the run, Chen was exhausted, and so was her luck. A Christian, she prayed: "Don't desert us now, not like this."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bangkok; chenguiqiu; china; escape; humanrights; lawyers; prc; thailand; trump; xieyang
Good read.
1 posted on 05/08/2017 8:29:02 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Would not have happened under Obama.


2 posted on 05/08/2017 8:37:48 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: ameribbean expat

To make understanding this situation very simply, Red China is still a hardcore Maoist communist dictatorship where the individual who stands for something is viewed as an “enemy of the state” and will be crushed, physically, mentally, and societally.

A Red is a Red is a Red. Not a Pink, or Mauve or Lavender. A commie is a commie is a commie and always will be (a murderous, deceitful, lying bastard, just like some of our Democrats).

Lesson Learned!


3 posted on 05/08/2017 8:38:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ameribbean expat

For later read. Sounds great!


4 posted on 05/08/2017 8:39:19 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: marktwain

Remember that case under Obama where they actually sent the blind dissident to a Chinese hospital... whole thing was a big flustercluck


5 posted on 05/08/2017 8:42:34 PM PDT by piasa
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To: ameribbean expat

Bookmark


6 posted on 05/08/2017 8:54:37 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: piasa; All

Chen Guangchen made it to the American Embassy, where he was promised American advocacy. Then the White House called, and he was pushed, hard, to give himself up to the Chinese.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/20/chinese-dissident-chen-guangcheng-hillary-clinton-bent-to-the-will-of-the-chinese/


7 posted on 05/09/2017 5:26:53 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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