Ottawa Citizen: Montreal Woman Arrested for Practicing Falun Gong; Ying Zhu's freedom lost on China visit

May 25, 2001

Falun Gong practitioners are again appealing to the Canadian government for help in securing the release of a Montrealer believed jailed during a visit to China this month.

Canadian Press: Quebec Falun Gong practitioner arrested trying to visit family in China

Friday, May 25th 2001

MONTREAL (CP) - A Canadian woman who was trying to visit the family she hadn' seen for three years has been arrested by Chinese authorities for practicing Falun Gong, her friends said Thursday. Ying Zhu, who lives in Montreal, vanished shortly after entering China from Hong Kong on May 10.

A Ten-Year-Old Girl's Trip to Beijing

My name is Christine Lin. My family and I live in California. I am now eleven years old, but when these things happened, I was only ten. During my summer vacation, on June 6th, 2000, my mom (her name is Zheng, Li-Juan, an American citizen) and I took a plane to Beijing. With us came a lady from California (her name is Cheng, Ming Hua). Her family is in Beijing; so on the first day of our arrival, we slept at her house.

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