The Family of Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu, with Wang’s son Bao Zhuoxuan in the center
Wang Yu, a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer who was awarded the International Women’s Courage Award by the U.S. State Department, has disappeared. Wang Yu, who is currently in Beijing, said in an interview that she is not afraid of political intimidation, but her son, Bao Zhuoxuan, makes her feel uncomfortable. Bao Zhuoxuan confirmed that he had applied for political asylum in the United States, but was once shut down. He said in an interview that the Chinese Communist Party is a difficult tumor that we have been trying to eradicate.
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that Wang Yu, who is currently in Beijing, said in an interview that she is not afraid of political intimidation, but only her son Bao Zhuoxuan can make her compromise. She is seeking political asylum in Los Angeles.
Wang Yu’s absence from the International Women of Courage Awards online ceremony was reportedly due to obstruction by Chinese state security, which prevented her from accessing the Internet because she was under 24-hour surveillance.
The Los Angeles Times revealed that Bao Zhuoxuan was arrested by customs at Los Angeles airport and taken to the Adelanto Immigration Detention Center after arriving in the United States on a tourist visa in March of last year. He was successfully released on parole about a month after being detained and awaiting a court hearing on his political asylum status.
However, due to the Epidemic, the hearing, originally scheduled for January, will have to be postponed until this summer, and further postponements cannot be ruled out.
Bao Zhuoxuan said, “Although Life is relatively difficult at the moment, if compared to the 24-hour surveillance in China in the past, life in the U.S. has been easier, and at least I am now free again.”
Zheng Cunzhu, a leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement who has helped many Hong Kong people obtain political asylum, told Radio Free Asia that all those who apply for asylum at the airport are sent to an immigration detention center and have to wait 2-3 years after being released on bail before they can go to court to be approved.
“In the first place, if you don’t get out on bail, you can usually go to court in a few months. It’s faster to go to court in a detention center. The fugitive from Hong Kong we just rescued went into the detention center on Feb. 10 and was scheduled to go to court on April 14. It was only two months before and after.”
Wang Yu also told the U.S. media that he believes his son will eventually be granted asylum because the U.S. has a more complete and practical legal system.
Bao Zhuoxuan talks about his mother’s choice, says CCP is a difficult tumor that has been eradicated
In 2008, after Wang Yu was released from prison after being framed and sentenced, he switched from being a business lawyer to a human rights lawyer. From the Fan Mugen case, the Cao Shunli case, the Yin Xuan case, the Ilham Tuohy proposal, to the Falun Gong faith case. Little by little, young Bao Zhuoxuan learned and tried to understand his mother’s choices, and in an interview with Radio Free Asia he said.
“My Parents never instilled in me the need to oppose the CCP, but rather told me the stories of these cases. For example, which parties were demolished by force or beaten up for petitioning, I sympathized with them. This is very biased from what the CCP Education instilled in me and what the news papers reported. There are people who are rich and powerful, but there are frozen bones on the road. Those we don’t know about are suffering.”
In 2015, the “709 arrests” of human rights lawyers began with Wang Yu’s family. On the night of July 9, more than a dozen men showed up and used a power drill to open Wang Yu’s door, push her down and drag her downstairs, handcuffing her and putting on a black headgear. Wang Yu’s husband, Longjun Bao, who was at the airport preparing to send his son to study in Australia, was also surrounded by police and sent to jail. Bao Zhuoxuan, who weighs less than 100 pounds, was tortured by being held in a hotel and repeatedly wrestled to the floor by his detainees.
On October 2, 2015, Bao Zhuoxuan, with the assistance of rights activists Tang Zhishun and Xing Qingxian, planned to travel to the United States from Inner Mongolia via Myanmar, but was unfortunately captured on the streets of Myanmar by Chinese plainclothes police. The police beat him severely with sticks and slapped him across the border, threatening to “beat you to death and no one will care!”
Bao Zhuoxuan was then sent back to his hometown and placed under 24-hour surveillance by cameras and state security.
Zhou Fenglock, founder of the U.S.-based human rights organization Humane China, who was in Thailand waiting to pick up Bao Zhuoxuan, said, “The child is innocent, so why did he have to go through so much trouble to escape? This country is a hell for people with a conscience. Tang Zhishun and Xing Qingxian paid a great price and still cannot leave the country.”
Wang Yu was tortured in the Tianjin Detention Center, going without sleep for five days and nights resulting in instant shock. But she never gave in until the police took out a picture of Bao Zhuoxuan and threatened her. As a mother, Wang Yu eventually agreed to a TV confession and was released on bail in August 2016.
Bao Zhuoxuan said, “My parents love me too much, and the Chinese Communist Party used me as a threat, which is very nasty and very vicious.”
In early 2018, Wang Yu used interviews with foreign media and public protests as leverage to finally get Bao Zhuoxuan allowed to study in Australia. But in Australia, Bao Zhuoxuan has not come out of fear. The eyes of the Chinese Communist Party seemed to be everywhere at Trinity College, where he was studying, when one day his host family received an unfamiliar phone call asking for Bao Zhuoxuan’s personal information and demanding to operate his computer. Feeling no longer safe, Bao Zhuoxuan decided to go to the United States.
Bao Zhuoxuan said that the complexity, multidimensionality, evil and vileness of the Chinese Communist Party is beyond the dimension of human language, and that he needed a long period of examination and contemplation, and that he did not want to merely present his complaint as a victim, which would be an underestimation and desecration of human suffering.
Talking about his mother and father, who are getting more and more frustrated but may “disappear” again at any Time, Bao Zhuoxuan said, “They are not doing it for themselves, but for the sake of giving the suffering people, the persecuted people of the Chinese Communist Party, the dignity they deserve, which is a glorious cause. So if I always think about myself, is that too selfish?”
Bao Zhuoxuan said the CCP is able to manipulate everything in China, including people’s minds and souls, and he even has some doubts about the futility of his efforts, wondering if he can make the nation reflect even a little; let the international community recognize the human rights situation in China and the CCP’s bad deeds.
“The Chinese Communist Party, a difficult tumor, a cancer, with human technology, can it be eradicated? I’m not sure. But the point is – we’re doing it.” Bao Zhuoxuan said.
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