A Chinese dissident tried to fly to his sick wife in the US. Then he vanished.
Share on Twitter After learning that his wife had cancer, Yang Maodong, a prominent democracy activist in China, rushed to get a visa and air ticket to join her in the United States. But Mr Yang never landed there. Border inspection officers at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai stopped him from joining a flight to San Francisco last week, his elder sister and friends said. “I must immediately get to the United States and pour all my energies into caring for her,” Mr Yang had written in an open letter to Chinese leaders a day before his planned flight. He wrote that his ...
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