China is reportedly prosecuting a Taiwan-based publisher who has been in Chinese detention for two years, and who published books critical of the Chinese Communist Party's regime.
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00:00After two years in Chinese detention, reports now that a Taiwan-based publisher who publish
00:06books critical of the Communist Party has been indicted on a charge of endangering national
00:12security.
00:13Li Yen-he, who's better known by his pen name Fu Cha, was detained two years ago on
00:20a trip to Shanghai to renounce his Chinese citizenship.
00:26Chinese authorities said later Li was suspected of activities jeopardizing national security.
00:33Taiwan's semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation says they're continuing to monitor the case.
00:39They haven't confirmed his indictment.
00:42Taiwan's government sees the case as making a symbolic propaganda example of a man who
00:48published material Beijing didn't like.
00:51Luffy Li and Louise Watt in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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