INTERNATIONAL news network CNN is to highlight the plight of SAR people detained on the mainland in a programme to be aired next week.
Hong Kong-based anchor Karuna Shinso will interview the wife of Peter Leung Wing-sum, who has been held for more than eight months without trial in Jiyuan, Henan province.
Human rights activist Ho Hei-wah of the Society for Community Organisation will also appear on the programme to discuss the wider repercussions of the cases.
Mr Leung's wife, Connie Leung Tam Sau-wah, is expected to make an appeal to the mainland authorities for her husband's release.
His ordeal began on April 3 when he was abducted by a state-run ceramics factory over a $2 million unpaid bill left by his former boss.
The mainland authorities are now demanding $1.5 million to $2 million for his release.