Dong Guangping, a 68 years old Chinese dissident🇨🇳, has succeeded in his 4th escape attempt.
After 30 hours at sea on an inflatable boat, he reached South Korea.
What was his crime?
The former police officer from China’s Henan province was guilty of co-signing a letter commemorating the 10th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
He was imprisoned for three years in 2001 for activism and arrested again in May 2014 for participating in another memorial for Tiananmen Square victims, according to Amnesty International.
In 2015, Dong fled to Thailand with his wife and daughter, where the three of them sought refugee status from the UN.
While his wife and daughter were able to move to Canada, Dong was forcibly returned to China by the Thai authorities, despite appeals from his family and rights groups at the time. He was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and released in 2019.
Imagine being persecuted for merely commemorating a historical event that the government wants purged from collective memory. Surely this is precisely the sort of case that political asylum was meant for?
One wonders why the UN did little to nothing to highlight his case or protect him...
Oh right. @UNWatch just released report detailing how UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China.
God really said, “Since you won’t humble yourself let me use the guy you called a degenerate crackhead to expose every ounce of pride in this room real quick.”🤣💀
You cannot tell me the Lord doesn’t have a sense of humor!
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