(Minghui.org) A man in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, stood trial in early May 2023 for practicing Falun Gong. His family wasn’t informed of the hearing.
Mr. Zou Feiyu, 49, was arrested on July 10, 2022, only five months after he married his second wife. His wife, who was arrested the same day, was soon released on bail and then had her bail condition dismissed. Mr. Zou remained in custody and his arrest was approved on August 18, 2022.
Mr. Zou’s mother went to the Kunshan Detention Center by herself in early May 2023 to visit him and demand his release. A guard lied to her that her son wasn’t detained there. She was devastated and burst into tears outside of the detention center. When she returned home, she told her daughter-in-law, who was not aware of her trip to the detention center, what had happened. Her daughter-in-law was shocked to see how much she had aged in just one day.
Mr. Zou, a native of Pingjiang City, Hunan Province, was admitted to Northeast Normal University in 1993. At the recommendation of his professor Mr. Bai Xiaojun, he began to practice Falun Gong in November 1996. After graduating in July 1997, he became a teacher at a middle school in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. He married his first wife Jiang Haiqiu in December 1998, and they welcomed their son in May 2000.
On January 5, 2001, when their son was only seven months old, they were both arrested after the police found out they were printing informational materials about Falun Gong. Mr. Zou was sentenced to eight years and fired from his job at the school. He survived brutal torture and was released on November 6, 2006.
Jiang was given two years of forced labor. After she was released, she stopped practicing Falun Gong and didn’t want Mr. Zou to practice it either. They agreed to divorce in January 2007. Mr. Zou has custody of their six-year-old son and Jiang soon re-married.
While Mr. Zou was serving time, Mr. Bai, the professor who’d introduced Falun Gong to him, was tortured to death on July 18, 2003, while in Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province.
Mr. Zou was arrested again on April 28, 2010, and sentenced to five years. During his incarceration, his son, who was in the fourth grade, lived with his mother.
Mr. Zou was released on April 27, 2015. A month later, Jiang died of lung cancer at the age of 41, just weeks before their son was to take the high-school entrance exam. Due to the persecution his family had to endure, the boy developed severe depression.
Mr. Zou married again during the 2022 Chinese New Year in February, only to be arrested five months later. His wife has a heart condition and is in poor heath, so his mother came from her hometown to Kunshan to stay with her.