A SENIOR mainland judge who fled to Hong Kong earlier this year and who has been granted asylum in the United States managed to slip his 12-year-old son out of China before leaving the territory with him this month.
Zhang Xin, 39, a former judge in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, flew out of Kai Tak airport to Los Angeles on August 13 after being helped to start a new life in the US by the Yellow Bird underground dissident movement.