After a Chinese girl’s father died while in police custody about a week after his arrest, a teen girl said she had to quit school to “seek justice” for his death and try to rescue her mother from detention.
The daughter of the man, Gao Yixi, says that he was arrested because he practices Falun Gong, a type of meditation practice. The Chinese Communist Party launched a widespread persecution against practitioners not limited to torture, bribes, beatings, imprisonment, force feedings, sexual assault, and even worse—according to a lengthy report last month, organ harvesting.
The body of Gao, of northern Heilongjiang Province in China, was seen by his family with “handcuff marks on his wrists” and “his chest protruded and his abdomen was sharply sunken,” according to a July 14 report from Minghui, a website that publishes information and updates on Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa
After that, officials quickly performed an autopsy on him then “attempted to cremate him,” and his wife was held hostage at the local detention center, according to the report. She’s still being held there against her will, said the daughter, Gao Meixin.
Writing in the first-person, the girl said that her parents were arrested on April 19 after police “suddenly broke into my home and raided the house” and none of them showed identification, leaving six hours later and taking her parents into custody. Her parents were transferred to a detention center two days later, and she was unable to see them when she went there with her grandmother.
