Xiang Li (
向莉) (born 1976) is an activist for
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
causes in
China.
She was detained in March 2014 for protesting the detention of four human rights attorneys in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang province.
[''Radio Free Asia'', March 27, 2014]
'Chinese Authorities Release Rights Lawyer, Keep Three Others Behind Bars'
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In July 2015, the Chinese government considered Xiang Li one of the targets in the 709 crackdown and forbade her to leave the country. She was smuggled out of China and entered Thailand in January 2018, where she was detained in immigration jail in Bangkok for illegal entry. She was granted humanitarian visa to the US in July 2018, but shortly before leaving for the airport on July 23, the immigration jail cancelled her air ticket under pressure from the Chinese government. She managed to board a flight three days later and arrived in the US on July 27, 2018.[''Radio Free Asia'', August 2, 2016]
'Interview: 'I Felt That Sense of Threat Very Keenly' '
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References
Chinese dissidents
Chinese democracy activists
Living people
Weiquan movement
1976 births
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