Chinese Police Detain Falun Gong Practitioner; Her Son in Japan Makes Plea for Help

A Chinese exile living in Japan is calling for the release of his mother, who is locked up in a Chinese detention center on Article 300 charges, a vague law passed in China in October 1999 to justify the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Yao Jiaxiu, a 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was detained on Sept. 20 by the Xichang Public Security Bureau and is being held at the Xiaomiao Detention Center in Xichang City, Sichuan Province, according to Gong Jinjun, Yao’s son. “My mother has been detained illegally for her faith,” Gong said. “I want to call upon the Japanese government and parliamentarians to urge the Chinese government to release my mother,” Gong told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times at a human rights rally outside a government building in Tokyo that houses Japan’s top legislative bodies on Nov. 8....