Penganiayaan terhadap Falun Gong menargetkan 100 juta orang di Tiongkok, serta menghancurkan keluarga dan komunitas yang tak terhitung jumlahnya di seluruh Tiongkok. Di bawah ini, kami menyajikan gambaran mengenai dampak kemanusiaan dari penganiayaan tersebut melalui kisah-kisah pribadi yang mendalam dari mereka yang tewas, mereka yang selamat, dan mereka yang tengah berjuang demi kebebasan sesama. Inilah kisah mereka…
The persecution of Falun Gong targeted 100 million people in China, and decimated countless families and communities across China. These are their stories…
Amy Yu, a fashion designer in London, has not seen her parents in 22 years. In 2016, Amy’s parents attempted to visit her in London but Chinese authorities blocked them. After rejecting their passport and visa applications, her parents were told they would never become passport holders because of their faith in Falun Gong.
Ibu Lucy, Liu Yan, ditangkap oleh otoritas Tiongkok pada 30 September 2021, di Kunming, ibu kota Provinsi Yunnan di barat daya Tiongkok, dan telah ditahan di sana sejak saat itu. Sebelum penangkapan baru-baru ini, kedua orang tua Lucy dijatuhi hukuman beberapa tahun penjara di mana mereka “disiksa, dicuci otak, dan dipaksa menjadi budak pekerja,” menurut Lucy.
Pada Oktober 2020, orang tua Grace Chen sedang mempelajari ajaran Falun Gong bersama para praktisi Falun Gong lainnya di kota Changsha ketika polisi mendobrak masuk dan menangkap mereka semua. Setelah itu, mereka ditahan dan dilarang berkomunikasi dengan keluarga. Grace yang berusia 16 tahun, yang sedang belajar di New York, menyerukan kepada semua orang yang baik hati untuk membantu menyelamatkan orang tuanya.
On February 5, 2020, Mr. Xie and his wife, Zhao, were arrested by the police from Guilin Qixing police station in the name of “checking body temperature.” The officers confiscated Falun Gong books and other related paraphernalia. On February 8, 2020, the police admitted that they were arrested for handing out Falun Gong materials. Ms. Zhao’s older sister, Wendy Zhao, currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Family repeatedly targeted by the persecution, Zhang Hongyu managed to escape to the U.S. in 2014, after her mother died from the persecution. Zhang’s father, however, has been again arrested, and risks “constantly facing the dangers of torture and even organ harvesting”.
“My father was dragged from his home and disappeared for months without a trace… I could do nothing but cry. I was suffocating in despair as I watched my kind, good father being sentenced to 16 years in prison.”
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