Xi critic who fled on jetski to South Korea will die if sent back to China, says father

The father of a Chinese dissident detained in South Korea said his son will die if he is sent back to China, a country he escaped from on a jetski in a life-threatening journey in August. A court in South Korea will decide on Thursday the fate of Kwon Pyong, who is charged with violating the immigration control act. Kwon, 35, pleaded guilty and appealed for leniency as prosecutors requested a sentence of two-and-a-half years, which experts say is unusually harsh. In the first public comments by Kwon's family, his father, Quan He, told the Guardian his son was "a…