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.
