Jia Xueyang is a Chinese man in his seventies now living in New York City. On July 31, along with his son Jia Yazhou and granddaughter Zhang Zhishuo, he told The Epoch Times about the tragedy that has befallen his daughter Jia Yahun. She was unexpectedly arrested by the Shenyang police and sentenced to one year in the infamous Masanjia forced labor camp. Her alleged crime was that she had told the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Thirty-five year-old Jia Yahun is a reporter for the Liaoshen Evening News. She had brought her nine-year-old daughter Zhang Zhishou with her to the United States to visit with her brother Jia Yazhou. Fifteen days after arriving in the United States, Jia Yahun left her daughter in the care of her brother while she returned to China to attend to some responsibilities associated with her job and family. Jia Yahun was unexpectedly arrested by the Shenyang police on April 25.
“On April 25, when my daughter was attending her cousin’s wedding, some policemen stormed in and took her away,” lamented her father. “Afraid of adding trouble to my daughter’s already bad situation, we decided not to contact the media at that time,” said Jia. “The government was being extremely unreasonable,” continued Jia. “She was locked up and given a sentence, but we as her family were not given any documentation of her arrest nor the right to visit her.”
