Monday, April 18, 2011

Yang Hengjun finally breaks the silence on his disappearance in Guangzhou

Yang Hengjun finally breaks the silence on his disappearance in Guangzhou Chinese-Australian political blogger and writer Yang Hengjun (???) has finally broken the silence on his two-day disappearance in Guangzhou. Here's a quick recap of what happened: Shortly after tweeting one day in late March that he was being followed by three men at the Guangzhou Baiyun airport, Yang went incommunicado, sparking off a series of international media reports that yet another Chinese intellectual had gone missing. The Australian government began pulling its strings, and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu, when pressed by foreign correspondents on the whereabouts of Yang, famously quipped, "I have not heard of that person." On March 31, just two days after his disappearance, Yang resurfaced, assuring everyone he was safe, "recovering" from an "illness", and on his way back to Australia. [ more ? ]

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