Chinese man seeking asylum in NZ tortured for helping North Koreans escape, worries for wife
(WorldNews New Zealand)

Gill Bonnett for rnz.co.nz A Chinese man`s mercy drive helped four North Koreans to escape - but also forced him to flee to New Zealand after being tortured by police and harassed by North Korean agents. He drove by back roads all day, all night and all day again to take the group - including two children - 1,000km from the border town where he lived. The Immigration and Protection Tribunal in Auckland heard he became unwittingly involved in the escape bid to begin with, after agreeing to drive a friend`s North Korean sister-in-law to a medical centre. When he arrived he found the group with a child who was very sick, and they asked him to drive them a long way into China. In its...