
French CCP Police Station Attempts to Repatriate Dissident
On March 22, 26-year-old Chinese dissident Ling Huazhan entered Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, escorted by seven individuals, including two Chinese embassy staff, holding the dissident’s identification and phone. Their mission was to ensure the young man boarded a China Southern Airlines A350 flight scheduled to depart for Guangzhou at 11:35 a.m. However, the operation failed. Mr. Ling, who went to the airport to pick up his confiscated passport by the embassy, refused to board. The two Chinese embassy staff contacted a police officer in Zhanjiang, a city in China’s southern Guangdong Province, who spoke with Mr. Ling by phone and ordered him to return immediately to China. The threats were temporarily halted by border police a few minutes later....
