Countdown to Deportation of Chinese Dissidents Worries Loved Ones

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Countdown to Deportation of Chinese Dissidents Worries Loved Ones
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Lisa Zhang and husband Song Zhiyu on the day of their wedding. Lisa says it is the only photo she has of them together – all others were on a laptop destroyed when he swam for safety from a boat he'd hoped would get him to New Zealand.

BANGKOK — Lisa Zhang is counting the days. Ten remain before her husband, now in police custody, faces deportation back to China, the homeland they fled two years ago. Zhang said Wednesday she is losing hope.

Song Zhiyu has been held by police since early March, when he and eight other Chinese dissidents, no longer feeling safe in Thailand, sailed from Pattaya in hope of reaching New Zealand. Instead, a heavy storm disabled their boat, and they swam to shore in southern Thailand. Six of the eight were eventually freed, but Song Zhiyu and one other remain imprisoned on charges of being in the country illegally.

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-- Khaosod English 2016-05-12

[EricBerg]

China is Thailand's new best buddy. So if they want Chinese people from the Kingdom, then Thailand will be happy to deliver, no questions asked. After all, we know the value of human life in the Land of Smiles.

[simon43]

... sailed from Pattaya in hope of reaching New Zealand.

Pattaya does make some people take desperate actions