Li Mingzhe, who was detained for 1852 days, was released: May the victims of human rights in China have a day of liberation

Taiwanese human rights worker Lee Ming-che, who was sentenced to five years in prison by China for subversion of state power, was released on April 14. Li Mingzhe returned to Taiwan from Xiamen on the 15th and needs to be quarantined for ten days. Li Mingzhe said that the current isolation is "held by love", not "besieged by terror", which is completely different from the isolation in China. For those whose human rights have been violated in China, I hope they will always have a day of relief.

Taiwanese NGO worker Li Mingzhe was sent by the Chinese police to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport on the 15th to take Xiamen Airlines back to Taiwan. The Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council and the SEF conducted a special Covid-19 test on him, and then sent him to a designated place for 10-day quarantine. . Wearing a dark blue jacket and black trousers, Li Mingzhe was significantly thinner than before he was imprisoned.

Li Mingzhe and his wife Li Jingyu issued a joint statement stating: "I finally returned to Taiwan, and I saw Jingyu who was haggard but very excited through the window", "Thank you to the strangers at home and abroad who have rescued them in the past five years. This is suffering for the sake of faith. "I am still very tired and quite unfamiliar with the world. The current isolation is completely different from the isolation in China. Now I am hugged by love, not besieged by terror."

When Li Mingzhe returns to Taiwan, he must be isolated and described as being "held by love" instead of being "besieged by terror"

The statement said: "Our family's suffering is over, but there are still countless people whose human rights are violated in China. May they always have a day of liberation. Freedom is achieved by oneself. Just like the people of Taiwan who came under martial law , to exchange blood and tears for freedom, democracy and human rights. May the Chinese people know and learn, and bless the Chinese people."

Li Mingzhe and his wife made a list of thanks to more than 50 people, including parliamentarians and officials from the United States, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the European Union and other countries. First on the list is former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.

Yang Xianhong, chairman of Taiwan's Alliance for Human Rights in China, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that they accompanied Lee Ching-yu to visit Lee Teng-hui after returning to Taiwan from the U.S. hearing. Former President Lee said in the first sentence that Mingzhe had been missing in China for 87 days, and asked six questions. Now, where is he locked up now? How can such a country exist? Lee Teng-hui said at the time that the US solidarity is moral, the Taiwan government's rescue is the responsibility, and it is the right thing to support the Lee Ching-yu couple. Lee Teng-hui also issued a statement as a former head of state calling on China not to become the main culprit in undermining cross-strait people's exchanges.

The first on the Lee's couple's list of thanks: Former President Lee Teng-hui

Yang Xianhong recalled Li Jingyu's statement to Sam Brownback, the U.S. State Department's Ambassador-at-Large for Religion, when he went to the U.S. Congress with the assistance of Pastor Fu Xiqiu and others. "Li Jingyu said that although Li Mingzhe is in a Chinese prison, he is still a human rights worker who is fighting for democracy and freedom. He is currently doing a field investigation on human rights work in Chishan Prison. Brownback heard tears and said, Taiwanese are still not ready to face such difficulties. Head down."

Yang Xianhong said that when Li Jingyu and the Americans mentioned visiting the prison, Li Mingzhe told him that all the people in Chishan Prison were eating rotten things boiled in sour water, which was inhumane. The U.S. Congressional China Investigation Team will soon organize a temporary hearing to learn more about how the CCP tortures prisoners in prisons, and admires Li Mingzhe's courage and courage to speak the truth in prison.

Bo Ming has seen Li Jingyu reveal that he has suffered the same trauma and will help Li Mingzhe to return to normal life in the future

Yang Xianhong recalled that Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser of the White House, met Li Jingyu at the White House and told her that the United States would try its best to rescue Li Mingzhe. She had confidence that Li Mingzhe would come out alive, although he would suffer humiliation and trauma, he reminded her to help her husband in prison. After returning to normal life. Li Jingyu was moved to tears.

Yang Xianhong said: "I asked Bo Ming why you feel so profound? Bo Ming described that when he was a reporter in China in the past, he was also arrested by the Chinese police and detained for 24 hours. Humiliating him. Poming said that even after returning to the U.S., he was often traumatized, and it took a long time to heal."

Yang Xianhong believes that in order to save her husband, Li Jingyu persevered and fought against the tyranny of the CCP because she has long followed the Taiwanese political victims Shi Mingde and Chen Jiajun and her husband and wife to fight against Taiwan's authoritarian rule of white terror and the February 28 incident. As for Lee Ming-che, he talked about Taiwan's transformation from authoritarianism to democracy at Wenshan Community College for a long time. Many Chinese people came to listen. He even went to China to share Taiwan's democratization experience and encouraged the Chinese people to strive for freedom and democracy.

Yang Xianhong expects that Li Mingzhe, who has come out of a Chinese prison, will be able to attend congressional hearings in other countries in the future. Especially after Russia invaded Ukraine, it is even more necessary to arouse the world to recognize that China is an evil regime, and there should be no illusions.

Radio Free Asia was the first to disclose on March 20, 2017 that Li Mingzhe had been missing for 34 hours after entering the country. Ten days later, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China confirmed for the first time that Li Mingzhe was under investigation for allegedly engaging in activities endangering national security. "Arrested. On November 28, 2017, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and deprived of political rights for 2 years.

Li Mingzhe of Wenshan Community College in Taipei has been out of contact for more than 34 hours

On March 29, 2017, Li Jingyu and human rights groups held an international press conference for the first time. Li Jingyu's trip to China to save her husband in April of that year was once obstructed. Tsai Ing-wen's government has been criticized for being weak. After 24 days of Li Mingzhe's disappearance, the Mainland Affairs Council held a press conference for the first time by its chairman Zhang Xiaoyue to demand the release of Li Mingzhe from the other side. In the past five years, the Chinese government has refused to openly communicate with the Taiwan government, and the official documents have been "read and cannot be returned", and they have only been coordinated through Taiwanese businessmen and other private individuals. In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Lin Huai, a Taiwanese businessman from Changsha who assisted Lee Ming-che to return to Taiwan, said in a low-key interview that although the interaction between the two sides of the strait was not good, the related work was still smooth.

Li Jingyu insisted on being unselfish, and was humiliated and called "atypical" family

Li Jingyu has repeatedly argued that Li Mingzhe promotes the values ​​of freedom, democracy, and human rights, and that in a civilized country, freedom of speech is innocence. Li Jingyu went to the United States and the United Nations to call attention to the case of Li Mingzhe. Taiwanese scholar Wu Jiemin once described Li Jingyu as a family member of an atypical Chinese victim who did not accept "privacy".

Zheng Xiujuan, Li Mingzhe's boss and president of Wenshan Community University, who participated in the rescue work all the way, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia: "Li Mingzhe is a citizen of Taiwan. Citizen groups know that Taiwan is an independent country. The country treats each other equally. In the past year or two, Jingyu was often criticized for killing Li Mingzhe's wife, a conspiratorial wife. We have confirmed how many billions of shunmins in China are treated?"

The Lee Ming-che case is the first case granted to Taiwan since its withdrawal from the United Nations

Qiu Yiling, secretary general of Amnesty International's Taiwan branch, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia that this is not a narrow-minded incident of cross-strait politics stepping on the red line, but a human rights incident. Li Mingzhe's disappearance, arbitrary detention and arrest can happen to citizens of any country. Even a Swedish citizen, Gui Minhai, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand without entering China. This is a big warning sign that China's violation of human rights has expanded to the territory of other countries.

Qiu Yiling mentioned that Li Mingzhe was unfairly tried and sentenced to 5 years in prison. He did not receive due judicial human rights protection. He was fed sour food, discarded warm clothes, and had limited communication rights. He lost 30 kilograms in prison. Li Jingyu once 16 attempts to visit have been denied, and no verdict has been received to date. The rescue brigade has launched a global joint petition, including the European Parliament, the European Union's administrative units, the US Congress, and the US State Department, all of which have condemned and called on China to release people. The UN human rights mechanism has also accepted the case. This is the first official acceptance of a case from Taiwan, which is indicative. Human rights groups have called on the Taiwanese government to take stock of how many Taiwanese are still being arbitrarily arrested and held.

Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council: Not guilty of spreading democratic ideas

The Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council emphasized that Lee Ming-che is concerned about the development of civil society and democracy in mainland China, and is not guilty of spreading the idea of ​​democracy. We will try our best to understand the situation of other Taiwanese cases in China, provide assistance, and call on mainland China to pay attention to the protection of the rights and interests of Taiwanese, so as to facilitate cross-strait exchanges.