Ti-Anna Wang hadn’t heard from her father in six months. 

 

But one of the last things she expected to learn when her mother broke the news in their Montreal home in 2002 was that more than 11,000 km away, her father had been detained and charged with terrorism and espionage.

 

Abducted at the China-Vietnam border while meeting with 
labour activists, Dr. Wang Bingzhang — the founder of the Chinese democracy movement — had been held incommunicado by Chinese officials and sentenced 
to life imprisonment after a closed trial.