First the case of the 16-year old son of a human rights lawyer Wang Yu, a rights lawyer detained in China. As reported by Louise Watt for AP on 11 October 2015, Bao Zhuoxuan (also known as Bao Mengmeng) and two men helping him were taken away by local police from a guest house in a Myanmar border town on Tuesday. “The plan was for him to travel to Thailand and I would meet him there and help him seek refugee entry into the United States,” Fengsuo Zhou said by phone from San Francisco, adding that friends of Bao’s family who live in San Francisco want to adopt him.
[Bao is the son of Wang Yu, a lawyer who disappeared 9 July 2015 amid a rounding up of dozens of rights lawyers and social activists; see: https://thoolen.wordpress.com/tag/wang-yu/]
The two men helping him to leave China were Tang Zhishun, 40, an engineer from Beijing, and Xing Qingxian, 49, a human rights activist in the southwest city of Chengdu, Zhou said. “We’re really worried now. He’s just a 16-year-old boy,” said Zhou, who lives in San Francisco. “We know that the intention is to use him as a hostage against his parents, both of them famous human rights defenders, in particular Wang Yu. She has been very courageous, outspoken, one of the best human rights lawyers in China — she was arrested exactly for that reason.”
Source: Son of Rights Lawyer Missing in Myanmar After Escaping China – ABC News
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
December 8, 2015 at 14:17
[…] Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), had on Friday told reporters that Thailand had deported two recognised Chinese refugees but China on Monday accused the United Nations of making “irresponsible remarks” in its recent criticism of China, Thailand and Vietnam over deportations, insisting none of those deported were refugees. [That Chinese human rights defenders abroad are being chased by the Government was already known such as in the case in Myanmar reported in https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/son-of-human-rights-lawyer-wang-yu-disappears-in-myanmar/] […]
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