‘Nightmare All Over Again’: US Citizen’s Father Abducted by Chinese Police

Published on April 10, 2024

NEW YORK—Han Guangzi pried open her eyes when her phone lit up unusually early with a beep. The next moment, she was wide awake, trying to take in the news she most dreaded. On her phone was one line from her mother: “Your dad was arrested again.” “It’s the nightmare all over again,” she told The Epoch Times. Ms. Han, a U.S. citizen, had lived in the nightmares for the first 13 years of her life in China: a country where her faith, Falun Gong, is a forbidden word. Like countless families at the time, the Hans lived in suspension in 1999 when a sweeping persecution began in communist China, targeting the meditation discipline’s over 70 million adherents who lived by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance....