(TWO SESSIONS)CHINA-BEIJING-NPC-DEPUTIES-INTERVIEW (CN)

(TWO SESSIONS)CHINA-BEIJING-NPC-DEPUTIES-INTERVIEW (CN)

(230305) -- BEIJING, March 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Keqin, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), attends an interview ahead of the opening meeting of the first session of the 14th NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Yuan Chengji (R), the eldest son of prominent Chinese historian Yuan Keqin, who taught at the Hokkaido University of Education in Japan and has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of espionage, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 31, 2021, calling for his father to be released.

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Yuan Chengji, the eldest son of prominent Chinese historian Yuan Keqin, who taught at the Hokkaido University of Education in Japan and has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of espionage, attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 31, 2021, calling for his father to be released.

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Son of detained Chinese scholar calls for release

Yuan Chengji, the eldest son of prominent Chinese historian Yuan Keqin, who taught at the Hokkaido University of Education in Japan and has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of espionage, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 31, 2021, calling for his father to be released.

Japan professor submits petition seeking return of Chinese colleague

Japan professor submits petition seeking return of Chinese colleague

Hibiki Momose (C), a Hokkaido University of Education professor, meets the press in Sapporo on Jan. 23, 2020, after a group she leads submitted a petition to the Chinese consulate general in the northern Japan city asking it to help bring back a prominent Chinese scholar -- whose whereabouts have been unknown for more than six months -- to the university. Yuan Keqin, an East Asian political history professor at the university, has been missing since June 2019, after he traveled to China to attend the funeral of his mother, who died in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo