The teenage son of a detained Chinese rights lawyer is believed to be missing in Myanmar after his apparent detention by the authorities in a border town he had reached while trying to leave China for the United States, according to a report in the New York Times on 9 October.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of Wang Yu, a lawyer who was detained in Beijing in July, was taken by uniformed men on Tuesday from a guesthouse in Mong La, a town in Myanmar close to the Chinese border, said Fengsuo Zhou, a former student activist now living in San Francisco.
The Chinese police had earlier confiscated Mr. Bao’s passport, seeking to stop him from going abroad, Mr. Zhou said in a telephone interview from San Francisco.
Mr. Zhou said he had travelled to Thailand and waited to meet Mr. Bao, also known as Bao Mengmeng, and two Chinese men accompanying him. But it became clear that their journey had gone awry.
China Change, a group that monitors human rights issues in China, has also reported that Mr. Bao disappeared, along with the two supporters who were traveling with him, Tang Zhishun and Xing Qingxian.
“The hotel owner said that a dozen or so policemen had come, displayed Burmese law enforcement IDs and taken all three away,” the report said.