A blind mainland activist who fled a 'black jail' where she was held after mainland authorities refused to let her enter Hong Kong to attend the July 1 rally is being transferred to a 'safe place', a Hong Kong-based rights group said yesterday.
Li Guizhi, 57, was located yesterday after she went missing on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two other mainlanders who did make it to the July 1 rally face a year's detention in a labour camp after they tried to 'illegally petition' Beijing over the deaths of their spouses in unauthorised hospitals.
Liu Weiping, chairman of the People's Rights Union of China, said Li contacted him by public telephone yesterday afternoon.
Li has been hiding in the outskirts of her home town, Baoding city in Hebei province, since her nephew helped her flee a 'black jail' - a hotel room in Hebei - on Tuesday as her guards were dozing, Liu said.
Li has been petitioning authorities for years to investigate the suspicious death of her son, a policeman, in 2006. She believes he was killed after learning of his colleagues' involvement with the drugs trade. But the official version is that her son died in a traffic accident.
Li had wanted to attend the annual rally in Hong Kong and hold a press conference about her son's death, but she was turned back at the border in Shenzhen in late June and detained sometime later.