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Taiwanese activist returns home after prison term in China

In this photo taken in March 2017, Lee Ching-yu, third from right, holds up a photo of her missing husband - Taiwanese pro-democracy activist Lee Ming-che. He finally returned home on Friday [File: AP Photo]

Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che has returned to Taiwan after serving a five-year jail sentence in China for alleged crimes against the state.

Lee’s return to Taiwan on Friday comes about five years after he disappeared in March 2017 while travelling to Macau, a former Portuguese colony and semi-autonomous Chinese territory next to Hong Kong.

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