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Dong Guangping
Chinese human rights activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dong Guangping (simplified Chinese: 董广平; traditional Chinese: 董廣平; pinyin: Dǒng Guǎngpíng; born 13 April 1958) is a Chinese human rights activist who was disappeared in 2022 in Vietnam.[1]
Early life
Dong Guangping was born in Zhengzhou, China, in 1958 to a father who was a military general.[2] He grew up in a wealthy family and his brothers joined the armed and became colonels.[2]
Career
Dong worked as a police inspector and a soldier before becoming a human-rights activist.[2] He was fired from the police force in 1999 for signing a letter about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, before being jailed for three years.[3] He is known in China for speaking out against China's censorship of news about the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.[4] Dong was taken from a Thai immigration centre by Chinese police in 2015 while he was attempting to resettle to Canada.[5][6] The police returned him to China where he was jailed for three years.[5]
He fled China for Vietnam in 2020.[4] Dong was arrested in Hanoi by Vietnamese authorities August 22, 2022.[4] Canada offered him political asylum.[2] As of mid-February 2023, the Vietnam government had declined to release any information about his whereabouts.[4]
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Personal life
Dong's daughter Katherine Dong and family live in Canada, where they relocated in 2015.[4] Dong was aged 64 in February 2023.[4]
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