Los Angeles [US], October 18 (ANI) Chinese democracy advocate Zhou Junyi has spent over four months in Thai custody after being arrested for alleged visa violations, and now faces the grave possibility of deportation to China, where he could endure severe punishment for his political activism, as reported by The Epoch Times.
The case has sparked alarm among global human rights defenders and pro-democracy circles.
According to The Epoch Times, Zhou, a member of the China Democracy Party, fled his homeland in 2015 after Chinese authorities seized his passport upon his return from a US pro-democracy conference. He made his way through Laos into Thailand, long considered a safer transit country for Chinese dissidents seeking UN asylum or protection.
The image of safety is rapidly deteriorat