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China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada
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A Chinese dissident who was stuck inside a Taiwanese airport transit area after he refused to fly on to China says he has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum.
When he landed at Taipei’s international airport he refused to reboard, requesting assistance to resettle in a third country.
Chen is a known activist in China who regularly commemorated the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989 and has been repeatedly detained around the anniversary.
He fled China for Laos in late July, but after the arrest and deportation of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei, Chen was advised to leave the country.
He arrived in Thailand where he said he was granted interim asylum status by the UNHCR, before booking a flight to Guangzhou, China, but which transited in Taiwan.
In late 2018 Yan Bojun and Liu Xinglian spent about 100 days in the airport before Taiwan authorities decided they could enter, but only after they flew to Singapore and then returned on short-term humanitarian visas.
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