A Chinese dissident who has been living in a Taiwanese airport since Friday has pleaded for the United States or Canada to grant him asylum after he fled Thailand saying he feared being deported back to China.
Chen Siming, known for his annual commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which is heavily censored and remains a major political taboo in China, told CNN he fled China in July after coming under increasing pressure and scrutiny from authorities. He has been commemorating the anniversary of the massacre – which saw troops and tanks forcibly clear a Beijing square full of students and pro-democracy protesters – since 2017, both through street demonstrations and on social media.
declined to comment on Chen’s case. CNN has reached out to China’s Taiwan Affairs Office for comment. As Chen waits for his case to be processed, he is hoping for eventual asylum in the West, either in Canada or the United States. “Given the current political climate in China, there is no space for me to operate there,” he told CNN.
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