A Call for UN Refugee Agency and International Human Rights Organisations to Help Rescue Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Zhang Xinyi

Mrs. Zhang Xinyi and her husband were previously granted refugee status and were under the protection of the UN Refugee Agency in Cambodia. Nevertheless, the couple was deported back to China because she practises Falun Dafa. Then, on April 28, 2005, officers from the Hunan Province Police Department, the Tianxin District Police Department in Changsha City arrested Mrs. Zhang and ransacked her home.

Mrs. Zhang is a teacher in her fifties who lives in Changsha City. She and her husband were teachers at a school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In August 2002, Mrs. Zhang and her husband were abducted by Cambodian authorities working in collusion with the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia. They detained the couple and then deported them back to China, even though they knew that they were under the protection of the UN Refugee Agency.

The couple were held at a detention centre for interrogation after they were sent back to China. Reportedly, they were not released until their situation attracted worldwide attention, and the UN Refugee Agency asked about the matter. Their passports have been confiscated.

Mrs. Zhang asked the Changsha City Police Department to return their passports, and also appealed to the court. The court, however, rejected her request, using the excuse that it is "not within the boundary of administrative jurisdiction."

Now Mrs. Zhang has been arrested again, and her family members are not allowed to visit her. The police said that she "is extremely stubborn." In order to prevent the Chinese government from persecuting her, and to respect the UN Conventions and Human Rights Law, we call on the UN Refugee Agency and International Human Rights organisations to help secure Mrs. Zhang's release.

Zhang Xinyi: 86-731-2564076 (Home)
Zhang Xinyi's husband: 86-731-6415712
Xinkaipu Police Station: 86-731-5572072
Policeman with family name Wen who is in charge of this case: 86-13808488654 (mobile)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/5/7/101329.html