No explanation over prison transfer: wife of jailed Taiwanese activist

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/01
By: Miao Zong-han and Ko Lin

Taipei, Nov. 1 (CNA) The wife of Taiwanese democracy activist Lee Ming-che (李明哲)

Lee Ching-yu (李凈瑜/CNA file photo)

said Thursday she has yet to be told the reason her husband was transferred back to Hunan Province, China after being moved to a prison in Hebei last month.

Lee Ching-yu (李凈瑜) told CNA that she was informed by Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) late Wednesday that Lee had been returned to Chishan Prison in Hunan, though no explanation was given.

Lee, a Taiwanese democracy advocate, has been detained in China since March 2017 and was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of “subversion of state power” in November last year.

During this time, he was imprisoned at Chishan prison, but on Oct. 19 a Taiwanese business association in Hunan said it was notified by the Chinese government that Lee had been transferred to Yancheng Prison in Hebei Province.    [FULL  STORY]

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