Sandra Han
Sandra Han is an American citizen, currently being held in extrajudicial detention in China.[1][2][3] Han and her two children, Cynthia Liu and Victor Liu, had traveled to China to visit an ailing relative.
When Han was apprehended, in November 2018, her two children were told that they had "exit bans" imposed on them, prohibiting them from leaving China.[1][2][3]
Han's ex-husband, Liu Changming, also an American citizen, had once been a senior bank official in China, and was being sought by Chinese law enforcement officials.[1][2][3] It was widely reported that Chinese officials were using his family as hostages in an effort to try to force Liu Changming to come to China to face trial.
Victor and Cynthia had their exit ban lifted on September 27, 2021, shortly after the US and Chinese Presidents negotiated dropping efforts to prosecute Meng Wanzhou, a senior official with Chinese telecom giant Huawei.[3] Han remains in custody.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namednytimes2018-11-25 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Javier C. Hernández (2018-12-12). "The Foreign Billionaires, Activists and Missionaries Detained in China". The New York Times (Beijing). Archived from the original on 2021-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20210816145152/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/asia/china-foreigners-detained.html. Retrieved 2021-09-27. "Mr. Liu’s wife, Sandra Han, and their children, Victor and Cynthia, arrived in China in June to visit an ailing relative. Ms. Han was detained, and the children have been held for months under a practice known as an exit ban."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Michael Forsythe; Chris Buckley; Katie Benner (2021-09-27). "American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S.". The New York Times: p. A8. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20210928155355/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/china-americans-released.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=212234864&impression_id=b767b370-2072-11ec-bc51-41af911db2f4&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=more_in_pools%2Fpolitics®ion=footer&req_id=850276577&surface=eos-more-in&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces. Retrieved 2021-09-27. "The siblings went to China in June 2018 to visit their ailing grandfather. On the trip, their mother, also an American citizen, was detained by the police and the siblings were barred from leaving the country. Their father, Liu Changming, a former executive at a Chinese bank, was wanted by the Chinese police for his role in a fraud case. The exit ban, and the jailing of their mother, was seen as a way to coerce their father to return to China and turn himself in."
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