After spending hours at sea, a Chinese dissident who left his nation in a rubber boat was arrested in South Korea. Human rights campaigner and former police officer Dong Guangping was discovered on Monday night in Korean waters.
The BBC was informed by South Korea’s coast guard that Dong’s case will be referred to prosecutors and that he is being investigated for possible immigration breaches. The 68-year-old has been imprisoned multiple times in China due to his activism, which included participating in events honoring the crackdown at Tiananmen Square. Dong had fled China at least three times before, but each time he was returned.
Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China’s foreign affairs ministry, said she was unaware of the event on Monday. Canada-based activist Sheng Xue claimed on X that she had spoken to Dong after he arrived in South Korea. Dong had left Weifang, a city in the central Shandong province, aboard an engine-powered rubber boat.
He had informed her that by the time he arrived in the waters outside Taean, a county on the western coast of South Korea, he was “fainting” from tiredness after spending more than thirty hours at sea. According to the South Korean coast guard, they were able to save him after a fishing boat reported seeing Dong.
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