A prominent student leader in Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement says he will keep trying to return to his native country even if it means getting arrested by Chinese authorities.
Wu'er Kaixi — now a Taiwanese citizen — spent the weekend in a Japanese jail after police arrested him Friday for trying to force his way into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo in a failed bid to turn himself in to authorities.
"A person with a warrant on his head cannot get himself surrendered to the regime," Wu'er said Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan after being released by police. "How absurd is that?"
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