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ICE arrests Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping in Pennsylvania

newsJul 17, 2026234,144

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping in Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, while he was delivering parcels for Amazon. Wu fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers, entered the U.S. on a tourist visa, and filed for asylum in 2020; his asylum claim is still pending. According to a friend who spoke to him in detention, Wu showed ICE proof of his pending asylum application and said he entered legally, but officers nonetheless took him to a Pennsylvania detention facility. Wu previously handled sensitive cases for religious minorities and political dissidents and attended a December 2019 meeting in Xiamen after which several attendees were arrested; prominent lawyers Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong were later jailed. Zhou Fengsuo, a Tiananmen Square protests leader now in the U.S., said Wu’s arrest has created "enormous fear" among exiled activists, and Wu’s friend said deportation to China would likely mean imprisonment. Wu’s immigration hearing is scheduled for 27 July, and rights groups flagged the arrest alongside other recent cases involving Chinese activists, including an extradition request for journalist Bai Zhaodong in Thailand.

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