Taipei Times
Date: Feb 11, 2018
By: Peng Wan-hsin / Staff reporter
The UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary
European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights chairman Pier Antonio Panzeri, second right, is joined by Lee Ching-yu, right, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday as he holds up a banner reading “Freedom of speech, Lee Ming-che is innocent.” Photo: CNA, courtesy of the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium
Disappearances is set to deliberate whether to pursue the case of jailed Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) after learning about his situation, a member of Lee’s rescue team said.
Lee’s wife, Lee Ching-yu (李凈瑜), on Wednesday presented her husband’s case at a convention of the UN working group in Brussels, detailing Beijing’s refusal to allow his family to visit or contact him, Taiwan Association for Human Rights secretary-general Chiu Ee-ling (邱伊翎) said on Friday.
The working group is to discuss whether to keep Lee Ming-che’s case or forward it to other UN working groups, Chiu said.
Lee Ching-yu and other members of the rescue team, including Chiu and Covenants Watch chief executive Huang Yi-bee (黃怡碧), talked with staff from the UN working group for 40 minutes, the association said. [FULL STORY]
