A PERPETRATOR OF TWO WHO TRIED TO ESCAPE WAS PERSECUTED IN XI'S CHINA.

An activist blogger and a disbarred lawyer joined growing numbers of Chinese citizens looking to flee the country"


The two men didn't know each other, but both had run afoul of the Communist Party.
Both no longer saw a future for themselves in China under Leader Xi Jinping, whose tightening of political controls left almost no room for dissent.

Both tried to escape,spent weeks plotting a way past China's border controls and through to Thailand, where they hoped they could fly to North America. Only one of them made it out.