Student Exposes Chinese Authorities’ Tactic to Abduct Her

Australian international student Zoo expresses her opinion about the Chinese regime in a video. Twitter screenshot

A Chinese student in Australia exposed the threats and harassment her family experienced from Chinese authorities after she participated in rights defending activities overseas. She uses the alias “Zoo” to protect her identity.

Zoo began studying in Australia last June. She has organized two memorials in Melbourne for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus victim Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who first publicized information about the outbreak in December 2019. Last October, she joined the Hong Kong demonstrations to protest against a controversial extradition bill before it was formally withdrawn later that month.

Father Harassed in China

In April, the domestic security bureau, a police force tasked with neutralizing those whom the CCP views as political threats, summoned Zoo’s father in the middle of the night. They told him that Zoo allegedly committed the crimes of inciting overseas Chinese people to assemble in front of the Chinese embassy and teaching the Chinese how to bypass the Great Firewall, the Chinese regime’s sophisticated online censorship mechanism. They forced her father to obtain her Twitter password and asked him to persuade her to turn herself in.