Minghui Yu tells NTD that her mother, Meihong Wang, has been abducted in China, again.
“They [took] everything away from her, including a computer, a USB, and her keys and other things,” Yu said.
Yu’s family was forced to split up almost 20 years ago because her parents practice Falun Gong, an ancient Chinese meditation practice that follows the principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance.
In 1999, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered the eradication of Falun Gong. This year, there have been more cases of practitioners being persecuted.
Jim Shannon a chair member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion said, “they’re a very gentle people, the Falun Gong. They’re certainly not controversial. They just want to be able to worship in the way that they can. I believe that every person across the world has a right, and should be given the right to worship wherever they can, whenever they can, and whatever way they want to.”
When Minghui Yu found out her mother was illegally detained and sent to Harbin City Hospital Police station, she called them every day. Sometimes her call goes through.
“They didn’t give me any, clear information or any clear reasons, they just told me something like, you don’t talk with a policeman about law or regulations,” Yu said.
A 2007 report says the hospital has a backyard where Falun Gong practitioners have been previously murdered.
Executive Director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, Levi Browde, says what CCP officials fear the most is public pressure.
“We’ve even had government officials that have said, give me the phone number to the labor camp or the detention center where this person is being held, and pick up the phone and call them. This kind of pressure is really what helps the most, we’ve seen many cases where immediately they’ll back out, they’ll sort of back down, sometimes they’ll even release people,” said Browde.
Jim Shannon, a Parliament member, says he can directly take Yu’s mother’s case up with the UK Foreign Secretary.
Yu clarified, “it’s not about me, it’s about my mother. I hope the authorities could release her right now and stop the persecution.”
She hopes the persecution will end not just for her parents, but for the millions who are persecuted for their faith in her native China.