{"id":15083,"date":"2013-03-07T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:03:22","slug":"Chinese-blogger-activist-now-in-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15083","title":{"rendered":"Chinese blogger activist now in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese writer and blogger Lu Haitao is now in the United States, a top US official said Thursday, refusing to confirm whether he has been given asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I can confirm that he and his wife are in the United States. As you know, we don’t confirm or deny asylum issues,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear when Lu and his wife, Yang Lan, entered the United States and where they were<\/strong>, as Nuland refused further comment or to confirm a report that he had sought refuge in the US embassy in Beijing in December.<\/p>\n

A Hong Kong paper reported in December that the couple were scheduled to return to Beijing from a visit in Taiwan on December 1, but instead turned up in New York on December 4.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International said in June that the writer had been evicted from his home “most likely due to Lu’s ties to activist Chen Guangcheng.”<\/p>\n

Blind activist Chen caused a diplomatic row when he escaped house arrest in his village in Shandong province in 2012 and reached the US mission in Beijing just at the start of a visit by then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
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\nChinese and American diplomats scrambled to find a solution and defuse the row.<\/strong> After initially agreeing to stay in China, Chen decided he wanted to leave for the US and Beijing eventually agreed to allow him to apply to study abroad.<\/p>\n

Chen, who was imprisoned after exposing abuses under China’s “one child” population control policy, now lives in New York.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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