A Taiwanese human rights activist who served five years in jail in China said that international pressure and the tireless advocacy by his wife worked to ensure his safe return to Taiwan.
“With your help, I know that I was not excessively abused in China and was able to return home successfully after I was released,” Lee Ming-che said and thanked those involved in his rescue at a press conference Tuesday in his first public appearance since his release.
Lee was arrested by the Chinese regime in 2017 and charged with subversion of state power.
His arrest was China’s first criminal prosecution of a nonprofit worker since Beijing passed a law tightening controls over foreign non-governmental organizations in 2016.
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