No Chinese New Year Reunion for Persecuted Families
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2011-02-05
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Many Chinese families around the world are gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year. But for the families of hundreds of thousands of persecuted victims in China, the New Year is just another reminder of the time they are forced to spend apart.
Chinese New Year is a time for celebration and family reunions. For Jin Zhaoyu, a Chinese woman living in Finland, that has been her greatest wish.
[Jin Zhaoyu, Daughter of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"I miss my family the most. I miss my mother and my younger sister. This is the third year we have spent the New Year apart."
Jin's family is just one many that have been broken up since the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong—a spiritual practice based on the principles of truth, compassion and tolerance.
Originally from central Henan province, Jin last saw her mother Chen Zhenping and younger sister Jin Zhaoheng in 2008. Chen was arrested for practicing Falun Gong, just before the Beijing Olympics. She had been previously detained and tortured for speaking out against the persecution.
[Jin Zhaoyu, Daughter of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"My mother is no longer able to chew, and can only take liquid food. Her teeth were all loosened after police tried to force feed her when she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution in a labor camp."
Henan authorities sentenced Chen to eight years in prison at a secret trial. Jin's youngest sister escaped China and is now living in Thailand.
According to rights group, Falun Dafa Information Center, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are estimated to be imprisoned at any given time. Since the Chinese regime started the persecution in 1999, the center has documented more than 63,000 accounts of torture and nearly 3,500 deaths.
Many Chinese families around the world are gathering to celebrate the Chinese New Year. But for the families of hundreds of thousands of persecuted victims in China, the New Year is just another reminder of the time they are forced to spend apart.
Chinese New Year is a time for celebration and family reunions. For Jin Zhaoyu, a Chinese woman living in Finland, that has been her greatest wish.
[Jin Zhaoyu, Daughter of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"I miss my family the most. I miss my mother and my younger sister. This is the third year we have spent the New Year apart."
Jin's family is just one many that have been broken up since the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong—a spiritual practice based on the principles of truth, compassion and tolerance.
Originally from central Henan province, Jin last saw her mother Chen Zhenping and younger sister Jin Zhaoheng in 2008. Chen was arrested for practicing Falun Gong, just before the Beijing Olympics. She had been previously detained and tortured for speaking out against the persecution.
[Jin Zhaoyu, Daughter of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"My mother is no longer able to chew, and can only take liquid food. Her teeth were all loosened after police tried to force feed her when she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution in a labor camp."
Henan authorities sentenced Chen to eight years in prison at a secret trial. Jin's youngest sister escaped China and is now living in Thailand.
According to rights group, Falun Dafa Information Center, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are estimated to be imprisoned at any given time. Since the Chinese regime started the persecution in 1999, the center has documented more than 63,000 accounts of torture and nearly 3,500 deaths.
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