Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-02-05

The wife of a Taiwanese NGO worker jailed in China is on her way to Geneva to report on

Ms. Lee (left) was not allowed to visit her husband in China. (CNA photo)

her husband’s case at a United Nations working group. The woman, Lee Ching-yu, will be speaking on invitation of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.

Lee’s husband, Lee Ming-che, was sentenced last year to five years in prison for “subverting state power.” He had traveled to China to share Taiwan’s experience of democratic transformation.

Lee Ching-yu was blocked from flying to China last Tuesday to visit her husband. That was after her permit to travel to China was revoked by Chinese authorities in April of last year.
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