Chinese dissident Dong Guangping is pictured on a boat off the coast of Taean County, South Chungcheong. [SCREEN CAPTURE]
A court on Thursday rejected a warrant to detain Dong Guangping, a Chinese dissident who was arrested off the coast of Taean, South Chungcheong, after fleeing his country in a small rubber boat.
“It is difficult to recognize the grounds, necessity and proportionality of detention and conclude that there is a risk of flight or destruction of evidence,” ruled the Daejeon District Court.
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The Coast Guard, which currently has Dong in custody, said it is deciding whether to place him in an immigration detention facility and where to house him in the meantime.
