Dong Guangping, a Chinese human rights advocate who has repeatedly tried to flee China, has been detained by the Korean Coast Guard after he was found in a rubber boat off the country’s west coast, once again fleeing China as he seeks to reunite with his family in Canada.
A Chinese national was spotted on an inflatable boat about 70 kilometres off the west coast of South Korea late on May 25 after a fishing vessel crew alerted authorities, the coast guard said in a statement.
Sheng Xue, a prominent Chinese-Canadian author and democracy activist based in the Toronto area, identified the Chinese dissident as Dong Guangping in a series of social media posts. She said she spoke with Dong by phone on the night of May 25 after he was detained, and noted a friend of hers in Korea had located Dong and called the coast guard….