Fuyao Li rarely uttered the words “Mom” and “Dad” in her childhood, because the Chinese Communist Party had deemed them dissidents for simply practicing a spiritual meditation. Li was only allowed to visit them twice a year, for mere minutes at a time.
On a seemingly normal evening, police abruptly barged into Fuyao’s home and ransacked through their belongings. Within the hour, the police took her parents away due to their faith in Falun Gong.
In this video Han Yu recounts when her father died in police custody, the anguish of her family upon recovering her father’s body, and her suspicions that her father was the victim of forced organ harvesting.
Zhiwen Wang was illegally detained on July 20th 1999, because he is a Falun Gong practitioner. Practicing Falun Gong in China had literally become a crime overnight, and he was one of the thousands of practitioners throughout the country targeted for immediate arrest. In a show trial, he was sentenced to heavy term of 16 years.
When Han Yu was just a teenager and her younger brother was in elementary school, they were left to fend for themselves after their parents were arrested and imprisoned for their Falun Gong faith.