Taiwan rights activist’s wife demands answers after arrest in China
Spouse says she not has been officially notified of her husband’s arrest, or given basic information on Li Ming-che’s whereabouts after he was held on subversion charges
The wife of the detained Taiwanese human rights activist Li Ming-che has voiced protest against the authorities in mainland China for failing to officially notify her of her husband’s arrest.
“Until now, we have yet to receive any official notification from the Chinese government about the arrest and the so-called charges against my husband,” Li Ching-yu said in a statement on Monday.
The mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office announced on Friday night that Li had been formally arrested on subversion charges.
The office said Li was recently arrested by security agencies in Hunan province on suspicion of subverting state power. It said Li had frequently visited the mainland since 2012, allegedly collaborating with individuals to set up illegal organisations and to organise and carry out seditious activities to try to overthrow the country’s political system.
The office claimed that Li and others had confessed to engaging in activities that endangered national security.
Li, 42, a former employee of the independence leaning political party the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, went missing on March 19 after he entered Zhuhai on the mainland from Macau.