TAIPEI • The wife of a Taiwanese rights activist being held in China has arrived in the mainland on the eve of his trial in a case that has further soured cross-strait relations..
TAIPEI • The wife of a Taiwanese rights activist being held in China has arrived in the mainland on the eve of his trial in a case that has further soured cross-strait relations.
Mrs Lee Ching-yu, wife of NGO worker Lee Ming-che who has been held incommunicado in China for more than 170 days, left for Shanghai yesterday around noon to connect to a flight to the central province of Hunan, where her husband’s trial will be held.
« As we understand, she will be allowed in court, but we don’t know if the rest of us will be able to get in, » Taiwanese legal activist Xiao Yimin who is accompanying Mrs Lee said in a phone call.
Mr Lee’s trial is set to start today at the intermediate people’s court in Hunan’s Yueyang city, according to his wife.
