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[Minghui.org] 17-Year-Old Sees Parents For First Time in 14 Years After Their Release from Prison for Upholding Their Faith

March 02, 2020 | By a Minghui correspondent in China

While serving time at Niedang Village Prison in Qushui County, Mr. Zhao was tortured and forced to perform unpaid labor. He lost a few front teeth and had much difficulty eating.

(Mingh ui.org) Zhao Leyuan, 17, finally saw his parents for the first time when they recently returned home after serving 14 years in prison for their faith in Falun Gong, an ancient spiritual and meditation discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Raised by his grandparents, who are in their 80s, Leyuan had always been asking what his parents looked like and when they would come home.

Mr. Zhao Longzhi and Ms. Luo Na before the persecution

Mr. Zhao Longzhi and Ms. Luo Na after being released

Leyuan’s parents, Mr. Zhao Longzhi, 46, and Ms. Luo Na, 44, both former employees of Najin Power Plant in Lhasa City, Tibet, were arrested for distributing materials about Falun Gong on January 31, 2006, when Leyuan was only three years old. They were sentenced nine months later to 14 years in prison.

While serving time at Niedang Village Prison in Qushui County, Mr. Zhao was tortured and forced to perform unpaid labor. He lost a few front teeth and had much difficulty eating.

Ms. Luo was imprisoned in the Lhasa North Urban Autonomous Region Prison. She was force-fed, beaten, and tortured.

Neither prison allowed their family members to visit them during their entire 14-year term.

After the couple were released on January 31, 2020, the police in Lhasa ordered them to go back to Ms. Luo’s hometown in Pi County, Sichuan Province, instead of staying in Lhasa.

Mr. Zhao’s sister bought their flight tickets. While the police in Lhasa sent them onto the plane, the police in Pi County waited at the airport in Chengdu City. As soon as the couple landed, the officers took them to the police station, recorded their personal information, and demanded that they report to them before leaving town.

Ms. Luo was very weak and vomited all the way back home.

Mr. Zhao Longzhi, His Wife Ms. Luo Na and Ms. Zhao Hong Imprisoned in Tibet Since 2006

Practitioners Mr. Zhao Longzhi and His Wife Ms. Luo Na from Tibet Each Unlawfully Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

Practitioners Zhao Longzhi a n d Luo Na from Lhasa, Tibet Are Arrested

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Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/3/2/183478.html

Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

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