After being turned away, Wang went on to Bangkok where he vowed to continue trying to return to China. I'm not afraid of that because I have already been in prison for a long time. Wang wrote a noted anti-government petition in 1974 and spent 14 of the next 19 years in prison for his outspokenness on behalf of democracy and human rights. He sneaked out of China in 1996, after learning of the arrest of his co-author in a petition critical of government policies. Chinese authorities refused to allow him to return in February after his father died, prompting Wang and other exiled dissidents to begin a campaign to defy Beijing's attempt to make them stateless.
China keeps a list of unwanted exiles and politically active foreigners.
Most are turned away at the border, but in the past six months, at least three exiles who sneaked back into the country were arrested and jailed. Wang had planned his return to coincide with the day when Chinese sweep the graves of their ancestors to honor them. Dissidents have used the commemoration to draw attention to victims of the 1989 bloody crackdown on student-led democracy protests centered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Judge dismisses case in alleged plot to kill Reno A judge dismissed a deportation case against a Palestinian accused of plotting to kill Attorney General Janet Reno, saying secret evidence against him was not convincing. Hany Mahmoud Kiareldeen remained in federal custody on April 5 however, after the Immigration and Naturalization Service obtained an emergency stay.