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A Chinese dissident who has been living in a Taiwanese airport since Friday has pleaded for the United States or Canada to grant him asylum after he fled Thailand saying he feared being deported back to China.

‘Crazy’ repression in China forced political activist Chen Siming to flee the country. Maroosha Muzaffar reports on the ‘dangerous and urgent’ situation he now finds himself in

Chen Siming, prominent government critic, says ‘friendliness and kindness’ awaited him after dramatic escape through Laos

Chen Siming pleads for safe passage to US, saying his situation is ‘dangerous and urgent’ amid Beijing’s pursuit of him

Chen's life in China was marred by perpetual surveillance by state security police in his home province of Hunan, leaving him feeling unsafe.

Chen Siming, 60, commemorates the Tiananmen massacre in Hunan every year and has already been arrested for it. Threatened with internment in a psychiatric hospital in July, he escaped clandestinely to Laos and then to Thailand, countries that are no longer safe for Chinese dissidents. He applied for protection during a stopover in Taipei with a plane ticket to Guangzhou. Taiwan does not have a refugee law, more likely to accept the request from a third country.

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Saying he would be jailed if sent back to China, Chen Siming refuses to board a connecting flight.

A human rights lawyer who was arrested in neighbouring Laos has been deported back to China, his attorney said, despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release.

BEIJING (AP) — A human rights lawyer who was arrested in neighboring Laos has been deported back to China, his attorney said, despite pleas from rights groups…