YELLOW Bird, the underground movement responsible for helping hundreds of political activists escape from China, is still operating - five years after it was formed in the bloody wake of the crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square.
One of the latest people to be helped by the secret organisation is a Shenzhen judge who fled after he complained openly about corruption and persecution by the judiciary in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Mr Zhang, who did not want to give his full name, is the first senior judicial figure to cross the border in several years.
Although he made his own way out of China and is not a pro-democracy supporter, Mr Zhang was helped when he first crossed the border by the Yellow Bird underground movement.
Once in Hong Kong he made contact with the same Yellow Bird officials who, in 1989, helped Tiananmen Square organisers such as Wu'erkaixi and Chai Ling flee abroad in the tense weeks after the June 4 crackdown.
Although the organisation had scaled down its operation, officials were still able to put Mr Zhang in a safe house. He is now on his way to another country.