More kudos to the Conservative government. Apparently, behind the scenes maneuvering were able to free Lu Decheng, who spent 9 years in prison for splotching paint on a Mao Tse-Tung portrait. Lu was also a protester during the 1989 Tiananmen square massacre.
Lu had been held in detention in Thailand as the Chinese government put pressure to keep him in captivity. But credit the Canadian Conservative government for placing human rights as a priority in their foreign policy. (Much more than the Liberals did!) They also put pressure to secure the release of this dissident.
Hopefully Lu can continue to shed light on the human rights abuses of China right here in Canada.
