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Taiwan Turns Down Asylum Request by 1989 Chinese Democracy Activist

Posted on 08/27/2015 by | Taiwan Turns Down Asylum Request by 1989 Chinese Democracy Activist已关闭评论

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 →

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Veteran Chinese Democracy Activist Seeks Political Asylum in Taiwan

Posted on 08/11/2015 by | Veteran Chinese Democracy Activist Seeks Political Asylum in Taiwan已关闭评论

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Chinese activist Gong Yujian displays a document from his 1994 imprisonment in undated photo.
RFA
A veteran Chinese dissident who served time in labor camp in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has defected to Taiwan during a tourist visit to the democratic island.

Gong Yujian, who began a life of political activism after being heavily influenced by the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing, said he had made the decision Continue reading →

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