Early in the month, the family of Sha Ming-chu, assisted by legislator Li Chin-hua, informed Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) that they had not heard from Sha since he was arrested in the mainland over a year before.
三月初，台商沙明珠的親屬在立委李慶華協助下向海基會陳情指出，沙明珠已在大陸被捕，一年多來音訊全無。