12 Facts About Li Ao

Li Ao was a Taiwanese writer, politician and television personality.

Li Ao's family had ancestry in Wei County, Shandong Province, and Fuyu County, Jilin Province.

Li Ao was jailed by the Kuomintang government from 1971 to 1976, for helping a pro-Taiwan independence legal scholar, Peng Ming-min, escape to Japan in 1970; even though Li himself had a long history of being an advocate of reunification.

Li Ao was highlighted by Amnesty International as one of the three most important political prisoners in Taiwan in 1974.

Li Ao took the election as an opportunity to "educate" the people of Taiwan.

Li Ao took office as an independent legislator on 1 February 2005.

PFP legislators dismissed the accusation and responded that Li Ao should reveal his evidence to support his story.

Li Ao alleged that the real motive of the killer was to assassinate the Vice-President Annette Lu in order to garner sympathy votes for Chen Shui-bian, and that the killer had been condoned by the governing party for ulterior political reasons.

Li Ao was invited to give speeches at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University where he was warmly received, and the trip was claimed to have had significant impact on observers of Cross-Strait relations.

Li Ao was attempting to stop debate on purchasing attack submarines and Patriot anti-aircraft missiles for $16 billion from the US Li Ao was wearing the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta.

Li Ao gave birth to their daughter, Hedy W Lee, out of wedlock in Seattle.

However, during Wang Shangqin's pregnancy, Li Ao became romantically involved with another woman, Wu Haidi.