Born Under Persecution, Survivors Remember Pain, Call for Change at Washington Vigil

WASHINGTON—Li Hongxiang doesn’t know what normal family life looks like—he was robbed of it right after birth. He was 36 days old when Chinese authorities threw his dad into jail. The next time they reunited, he was 10. Upon arresting his father and grandparents, the police beat his mother, still in postpartum, demanding to know who helped put up a banner in their home city Shenyang that read “Falun Dafa Is Good.” She bundled up the baby and fled their home. For most of those 10 years, the two bounced from place to place. After making a prison visit to his father in 2005, the police tracked his mother down and imposed on her a three year prison term. He was four....