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Cheng Wanjun claimed that he was arrested at Beijing Airport in November 2019 and sentenced to 6 years in prison for illegal business. After he was released from prison in 2025, he was forced to go into exile overseas in order to publish his works in prison. His self-narration, "Eternal Soul of Freedom: Confessions of a Chinese Political Prisoner," was published in the overseas Chinese online media "Yibao" on November 1 this year.
Immigration Department. (File photo)
Cheng Wanjun, a former host of the Chinese Communist Party's official media CCTV, "jumped off the plane" after taking a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Taiwan on the 2nd of this month. He wanted to seek political asylum from the Taiwan government and hoped for assistance in traveling to a third country. However, the Immigration Department followed the existing mechanism and consulted with the Mainland Affairs Council and other relevant authorities to handle the matter carefully and determined that Cheng did not provide specific evidence and did not meet the conditions and qualifications for assistance. He was sent back to his previous destination of Bangkok, Thailand early this morning.
The Immigration Department said that when Cheng learned that he had failed to seek political asylum and was about to be sent back to Bangkok, he was very agitated and uncooperative with Immigration Department officers. He continued to resist and even committed self-injury during the boarding process. Immigration Department personnel then restrained him to maintain flight safety.
The Immigration Department pointed out that because Cheng Wanjun failed to provide specific evidence, did not meet the conditions and qualifications for assistance, and did not have a valid entry permit, he was sent back to his previous destination of Bangkok, Thailand, in accordance with Article 50 of the Entry, Exit and Immigration Act.
Cheng Wanjun claimed that he was arrested at Beijing Airport in November 2019 and sentenced to six years in prison for "illegal business operations." After he was released from prison in 2025, he was forced to go into exile overseas in order to publish his works in prison. His autobiography, "The Everlasting Soul of Freedom: Confessions of a Chinese Political Prisoner," was published in the overseas Chinese online media "Yipao" on November 1 this year.
He also said in the video that in order to avoid a second political persecution by the "Chinese Communist authorities", he had to move to Taiwan to seek short-term humanitarian protection, hoping to help him complete resettlement in a third country "so that I can continue to create and speak freely for the rest of my life."
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Cheng Wanjun may continue to seek resettlement in a third country in Thailand
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