American Missionary Held, Activist Says
From Times Wire Reports
CHINA
Chinese authorities have detained a Korean American missionary suspected of helping North Korean asylum seekers, a South Korean activist said.
Joseph Choi was detained this month on charges of trying to help North Koreans seek asylum, said Do Hee Yoon, a spokesman for the Citizens’ Coalition for Human Rights of North Korean Defectors and Abductees.
The U.S. Embassy confirmed that an American had been arrested in northeastern China but did not identify the person.
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