Kao is an internationally respected clergyman whose sudden arrest on April 24 shocked his Christian colleagues in this country and elsewhere. Dr. Kaos arrest also sparked concern that freedom of worship might be as jeopardized as the right of free speech and assembly has been on Taiwan. Several of the other defendants are Presbyterian activists. including Lin Wenchen. a single parent of two U.S. citizen daughters. who might still be in the United States had she not returned to Taiwan 2 weeks before her naturalization hearing to care for her ailing mother. Dr. Kao explained his actions in helping Shih Mingteh at the time the latter was sought by the police as dictated by his conscience as a Christian.
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