Direct flight to Taiwan - I spent 248 days in a Taiwanese prison

Author: Zhang Li
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Five mainland Chinese sailors, carrying the desire to see China from the sea, to achieve peaceful unification of the Taiwan Strait, and to uphold the sovereignty of Diaoyu Islands, embarked on a continuous 48-hour voyage. They historically crossed the Taiwan Strait. As they battled the wind and waves in the vast sea at midnight, a Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel suddenly appeared and intercepted them, confiscating their boat and forcibly dragging them, along with the vessel, to a dock in Tainan. Subsequently, these five sailors with good intentions underwent a three-month interrogation and a nightmarish 248-day detention, completely losing their freedom, basic human rights, and the fundamental dignity of being human. Yet, with strong beliefs and resilient willpower, they endured all of this while realizing what purgatory is, what the dark corners of civilization are, and what slander and persecution are.