Wife of jailed Taiwan activist denied visits; health concerns raised

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/10
By: Yeh Su-ping, Miu Tsung-han and Frances Huang 

Taipei, Nov. 10 (CNA) Lee Ching-yu (李淨瑜), the wife of Taiwanese democracy activist Lee Ming-che (李明哲), said Saturday that Chinese authorities have denied her request to visit her husband twice, which has made her more concerned about her husband’s health condition.

In a news conference jointly organized by Lee, her friend Wang Li-ping (王麗萍), the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, and the rights group Covenants Watch, Lee said Beijing authorities have given no explanation why her husband was transferred back to a prison in Hunan, China, two weeks after being moved to a prison in Hebei last month.

Lee said the temperatures in Beijing have hovered around 2 degrees Celsius and the mercury in Hunan has reached around 12 degrees, and such an abrupt transfer of jail has raised concerns over the health state of her husband, in particular after her two requests to see her husband has been denied.    [FULL  STORY]