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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55297201
A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday.
Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he was detained by South Korea’s coast guard for allegedly violating the country’s immigration law. It was his fourth known attempt to flee China.
Appearing at a court hearing in South Korea, he told reporters that he hopes to go to Canada to reunite with his wife and daughters, who have already been resettled there, according to South Korean media.
In a post Saturday on X, his friend Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian activist, said Dong had landed in Toronto following an Air Canada flight on Friday.
“He just had a big bowl of noodles with eggs, tomatoes and shrimps,” she wrote in the post, adding that she has spent more than 10 years trying to get him out of China.
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Only illegal In a censorship regime, not a crime anywhere else, so he’s free to travel to other countries
Are you under the impression that fleeing felons under warrant in other countries are given travel documents and allowed to exit before standing trial for their crimes?
What magical world do you live in?
…and FWIW, we have people in prison right now in Canada for violation of prohibited speech laws.
Duh, he’s claiming asylum obviously from being a political prisoner. You don’t ask permission to leave. Canada accepts lots of asylum seekers
So you think it would be appropriate for another country to grant asylum to a Canadian citizen, if they fled prosecution for a Section 318 or 319 offense?
If it was a human rights violation or clearly a political arrest. Just because a country can imprision you doesn’t mean it is just.
Like thr UK arresting people for having a shirt that says Peace for Palistine, or making statements about the genocide happening. That’s no really about a terror thrrwt its the leaders who’ve made stance alligiances wanting to continue to hold power.
Got it, so YOUR country’s government has the right to decide what people can and cannot promote publicly, but other countries do not.
I see you are big on nuance…
The importing country decides based on human rights and other criteria. Do you not know how amnesty, asylum and refugee status works?
Its why those exist to protect political prisoners.
I feel like I’m talking with a paid Chinese bot.
Interesting take that anyone who doesn’t agree with the utility of western style representative democracy must be a spy or a robot…
Do you feel like elected officials in Canada speak to the needs and desires of the working class more often than not? Do YOU feel well represented in Ottawa?
If like 80% of Canadian citizens, you were born and raised here; have you ever taken any time to consider the miraculous coincidence that the system you were born into just happens to be the “right” one? Is that just luck of the draw for you, or is it possible you’ve been indoctrinated?
I wasn’t born in Canada, and didn’t say one country has moral right, but there are human rights and international backed asylum. Countries on either side use it all the time.
“Homosexual escaping execution in homophobic country is breaking the law.”
You’re a dirty rat.
Homosexuality is not seditious.
Get your feelings under control.
Yes. This happens, literally, every single day across the world. We even have a word for it. Asylum
So this begs the question, what magical world do you live in?