The State Department has warned Americans about China’s growing use of exit bans, sometimes used to keep Americans in China for years.
WASHINGTON – Two young Americans, Victor and Cynthia Liu, are “trapped” in China, increasingly desperate and despondent because Chinese authorities have blocked them from leaving for more than a year.
Thomas Kellogg, executive director of the Center for Asian Law at Georgetown University Law Center, said China has long used exit bans to stop its own citizens from leaving the country, particularly human-rights activists or other dissidents. But authorities are increasingly using the tactic to harass Americans and other foreign nationals, particularly those of Chinese dissent, he said.
“U.S. officials, including the Secretary of State, regularly raise the issue of exit bans with the Chinese government and will continue to do so until we see a transparent and fair process,” the State Department official said. They're being used"as a crude form of human bait" to lure their estranged father, Liu Changming, back to China, said Pressman, the Lius' attorney, who has served as a deputy U.S.
But those plans were derailed when Han was detained, and her children were barred from returning to the U.S. Victor and Cynthia are able to move around within China, they cannot leave the country, Pressman said."She hasn’t been accused of any crime. She seems to have been subject to an exit ban merely because of her association with political figures who have been disgraced and purged," he said.
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