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They’re seriously considering sending this badass back to China? Gross.
This would be business as usual for Australia. They have been repeatedly violating multiple conventions when it come to the treatment of asylum seekers.
With all due respect to him and his family, a jetski escape does sound pretty bitchin...i'm imagining him rocking aviator sunglasses, carving through waves with a supermodel in each arm.
One minor, but important detail: His parents were Korean.
S Korea allows anyone of Korean descent to apply for citizenship. So, as opposed to returning him, they could lock him up in a Korean prison, where he will at least be safer from Chinese agents. This will also give him ample time to file the necessary paperwork and polish up on his Korean language, history and culture, and is vastly preferable to deporting him.
it's too bad Xi is so afraid of one guy on a jetski.. very strange to be so afraid of one guy.. maybe Kwon put a Winnie the Pooh sticker on his backpack.. i know that makes Xi very sad..
must had carry a big gas can, or multiple
3-4 gallons could get you 80-100 miles pretty easily. Won't need that much in Jerry cans to make the trip. Maybe 10 gallons total
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The father of a Chinese dissident detained in South Korea said his son will die if he is sent back to China, a country he escaped from on a jetski in a life-threatening journey in August.
Quan described his son as “an honest and sincere” person who had started publicly questioning the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist party after studying in the US.
South Korea is a party to the UN’s refugee convention but in the past 20 years it has accepted fewer than 4,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Yemen and Syria.
“Korea is very reluctant about Chinese asylum seekers,” said Pillkyu Hwang, the director of the GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation in Seoul.
As well as South Korea’s restrictive refugee policies, there is pressure on the relationship between Seoul and Beijing, with concerns Kwon may be receiving unusually harsh treatment because of his status in China.
The two and a half year sentence was “unusually draconian”, said Christoph Bluth, a professor of international relations at the University of Bradford, an expert on Korean human rights.
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