A Chinese journalist who disappeared from Thailand while seeking refuge there last month has re-emerged in China, his wife said Wednesday, in circumstances she said closely resemble those of other recent missing-persons cases. As WSJ's Ned Levin reports:

The journalist, Li Xin, told his wife, He Fangmei, that he had willingly returned to China and is now under investigation for an alleged crime that he didn’t specify, Ms. He said. She added that she believes her husband’s statement was coerced.

“I know it was all their words, and that Li Xin was speaking against his wishes,” Ms. He said, after being summoned to the police station in her husband’s hometown in Henan Province Wednesday to take a call from him.

Mr. Li told his wife not to contact others about his case and didn’t say where in China he was or how he had gotten there, Ms. He added.

Chinese and Thai government officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman previously said he had no knowledge of Mr. Li’s case, while a Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman didn’t address previous questions about him.

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