Radio Free Asia
Date: 2019-09-23
The wife of Lee Ming-cheh, a Taiwanese rights activist and NGO worker currently serving a prison
Lee Ching-yu, whose Taiwanese rights activist and NGO worker husband Lee Ming-cheh is currently serving a prison sentence in China for “subversion,” travels to China to visit her husband and inform him of his father’s death, in an undated photo.
In a statement on Monday, Lee Ching-yu said she would be traveling to China to visit her husband and inform him of his father's death on Aug. 17.
She cited Chinese law as saying that convicted criminals serving sentences are permitted to attend the funerals of their parents.
Lee said she would be willing to remain in China "as a hostage" if the authorities were to allow Lee Ming-cheh home on leave to attend the funeral. [FULL STORY]
