Eve Chan’s (real name withheld) family still faces harassment from authorities in Beijing, four years after her situation first came to light.

Chan’s case was first reported by The Epoch Times in 2021, at the time she revealed the extent of the surveillance she suffered, and also the pressure put on her family for her practicing the meditation discipline Falun Gong.

“Although Australia is a country full of kindness and freedom, and I have become an Australian citizen, I still feel like I live under the shadow of CCP (Chinese Communist Party) surveillance,” she said while presenting witness testimony to an expert panel in Canberra in late October.

“My son and daughter-in-law, along with their two young children, were forcibly evicted from their home,” she said during the session focused on “foreign interference and transnational repression.”

The CCP regime also froze her son’s bank account and pressured his workplace to cancel his job promotion and salary increases.

The reason given was, “Your mother failed the political review.”

Other than being coerced economically, he was even detained for five days on the charge of “soliciting prostitution.”

With the help of a lawyer, her son was eventually released after paying an 8,000 yuan fine and insurance premium.

Other than family members, two lawyers were also threatened.

“Most lawyers are hesitant to take on Falun Gong cases because they face immense resistance and even put their lives at risk,” Chan said.

According to Chan, the first lawyer was warned by the local Bar Association in China, which threatened to revoke his license if he continued to represent her. He had no choice but to step down.

The second lawyer didn’t dare return home during the trial, and was detained for 37 days.

Chan was nearly 70 years old when escaped China to Australia in 2013 for practicing Falun Gong, a traditional meditation that follows the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

Falun Gong was disseminated in the 1990s and was soon practiced by 100 million Chinese people.

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a persecution against the group, calling on the CCP apparatus to “defame them in reputation, destroy them economically, and eliminate them physically.”

The persecution continues today.

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