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- cross-posted to:
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55297201
A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday.
Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he was detained by South Korea’s coast guard for allegedly violating the country’s immigration law. It was his fourth known attempt to flee China.
Appearing at a court hearing in South Korea, he told reporters that he hopes to go to Canada to reunite with his wife and daughters, who have already been resettled there, according to South Korean media.
In a post Saturday on X, his friend Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian activist, said Dong had landed in Toronto following an Air Canada flight on Friday.
“He just had a big bowl of noodles with eggs, tomatoes and shrimps,” she wrote in the post, adding that she has spent more than 10 years trying to get him out of China.
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I did, what he did was illegal. What’s the problem?
Only illegal In a censorship regime, not a crime anywhere else, so he’s free to travel to other countries
Are you under the impression that fleeing felons under warrant in other countries are given travel documents and allowed to exit before standing trial for their crimes?
What magical world do you live in?
…and FWIW, we have people in prison right now in Canada for violation of prohibited speech laws.
Duh, he’s claiming asylum obviously from being a political prisoner. You don’t ask permission to leave. Canada accepts lots of asylum seekers