A mainland activist had three narrow escapes after she fled a secret jail, dodging security officials for days before finally reaching a safe haven.
The latest ordeal of Li Guizhi, left nearly deaf and blind through torture, began when she was turned back at the border as she tried to attend the July 1 rally in Hong Kong, she told the South China Morning Post.
That led to her 5,000-kilometre escape from the 'black jail' - a hotel basement in Laishui county, Baoding, in Hebei province. She arrived at a safe place on Wednesday with the help of a Hong Kong-based rights group, she said.
'By that time I was very nervous. My heart is not very well. I have lost my appetite completely,' she said, weeping as she recalled her ordeal in a phone interview.
Li, 57, has been petitioning over the suspicious death of her son since 2006. She wanted to come to Hong Kong to participate in the July 1 rally and speak at a press conference about her son's death, but was denied entry at the Shenzhen border late last month.
She was then pursued by security personnel, who tracked her down and arrested her as she took a bath in a hotel in Panyu on July 1.