{"id":23834,"date":"2011-12-03T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=23834 "},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:46:00","slug":"23834-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=23834","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Dissident Forced to Sneak Across the Vietnamese Border in Order to Find Political Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/span>The Chinese dissident stood in front of a map of Vietnam, looking for the best place to sneak across the border on his long quest for freedom.<\/span><\/p>

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“I want to try,” said the bespectacled former physics student, who is in his late 30s. “I know it’s very difficult but I cannot go back to China.”<\/span><\/div>
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Without a passport Wang Weimin, whose name AFP has changed to protect him and his family, had already made it over the Chinese frontier and reached the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.<\/span><\/div>
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But once there, hungry and short of cash, Wang found that neither foreign embassies nor the United Nations refugee agency could accept his request for political asylum.<\/span><\/div>
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In June he decided there was no choice but to push on towards Thailand, “a free country”.<\/span><\/div>
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“See you later,” Wang said, smiling as he gave a slight wave to an AFP reporter. He walked off with determination, carrying a cloth bag containing two handwritten books which he said he penned in prison.<\/span><\/div><\/div>
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<div><p><div>Wang Weimin (a pseudonym used to protect his family) crossed the border and reached Hanoi, only to be denied asylum. &nbsp;It took him two weeks but he eventually made it to Thailand, where he is awaiting word on whether his asylum request will be granted.<\/div><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}