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Taiwan Turns Down Asylum Request by 1989 Chinese Democracy Activist

By Ka Pa and Wei Ling

2015-08-26

image (1)Rights activist Gong Yujian (R) and former Tiananmen student leader Wu’er Kaixi (L) meet in Taiwan in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Gong Yujian)
UPDATED at 12:42 P.M. EST on 26-08-2015

A veteran Chinese dissident who applied for political asylum in Taiwan during a tourist visit to the democratic island has had his application refused, he told RFA on Wednesday.

Gong Yujian, who served time in a labor camp in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Continue reading