The cold reality sank in when Nancy Zhang was an 8-year-old waiting for her parents to pick her up from school.
There was no one coming for her.
The ever-present Chinese police, stationed just next to her school, had arrested both her parents that day for practicing Falun Gong. They sent her father to a Chinese brainwashing center—a facility designed for the namesake purpose of instilling hate propaganda against their faith and inculcating Party loyalty. Zhang’s mother ended up in Chinese jail for three years.
Zhang waited for hours. The day turned dark as her classmates went home one by one. In the end, it was just her and a security guard….
She Fled Persecution in China. Now Beijing Wants to Take Her Freedom in the West.
