MAC urges Beijing to release Taiwanese activist, Chinese dissidents

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Monday urged Beijing to release Taiwanese democracy advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) and other detained Chinese dissidents, including Liu Xia (劉霞), the widow of the late Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波), who has been kept under house arrest for eight years.

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