Opinion | Taiwanese politician offers to help Chinese activist whose daughter is barred from school

A high-ranking member of the Taiwanese opposition Democratic Progressive Party has taken up the cause of a mainland activist's 10 year-old daughter - who has been barred from attending school.

Hung Chih-kun, a DPP Central Executive Committee, told the South China Morning Post he had talked to long-term democracy activist Zhang Lin and that he would make an effort to spread word of Zhang's case internationally.

"While I am a member of the DPP's Executive Committee, this matter has nothing to do with the DPP or any political personalities," he wrote, adding that he wanted to prevent "allegations of an intervention of hostile foreign forces".

"I, this 'foreign force', have become a 'foreign ambassador'," he wrote on Friday. Hung told the Post he had offered to help Zhang's daughter Anni find a school in Taiwan.

"I would be very happy to if Anni could go to school to Taiwan", activist Zhang told the Post. He said he worried that the process of getting her there would be too lengthy and added that he was aware Hung wasn't speaking for the Taiwanese government.