{"id":1936761,"date":"2023-05-24T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-deplorable-persecution-of-falun-gong-under-spotlight-at-congress-briefing\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T06:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:13:35","slug":"ccps-deplorable-persecution-of-falun-gong-under-spotlight-at-congress-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-deplorable-persecution-of-falun-gong-under-spotlight-at-congress-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Briefing Highlights CCP&#8217;s Persecution of Falun Gong as &#8216;Deplorable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fccps-deplorable-persecution-of-falun-gong-under-spotlight-at-congress-briefing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Family Torn Apart by Persecution<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0523\/a16a87df-6f73-4510-b28f-56b4ea71a704\/audio.mp3?length=6578253&#038;duration=548\"><\/div>\n<p>Ten years ago, Zhou Deyong was trying to rescue his wife who was jailed by Chinese authorities over her faith. Now, his wife and son are doing the same for him.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, You Ling shows up at the Chinese Consulate in New York holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/phase-2-trials-of-antiviral-pill-show-promising-results-in-battling-covid-19\/\" title=\"Phase 2 trials of antiviral pill show promising results in battling COVID-19\">sign calling<\/a> for her husband\u2019s release. The 62-year-old geological engineer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fatal-shooting-in-georgia-over-mask-wearing-argument\/\" title=\"Fatal Shooting In Georgia Over Mask-Wearing Argument\">recently sentenced<\/a> to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sentencing-of-us-residents-family-over-faith-reveals-true-nature-of-the-ccp-congressman_5214337.html\">eight years\u00a0in prison<\/a> for practicing Falun Gong, a meditation discipline that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has brutally suppressed since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s son, Florida resident Zhou You, recounted the family\u2019s story of persecution at a congressional briefing hosted by the International Religious Freedom Caucus on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather died last year. I couldn\u2019t go to the funeral, because if I return to China, I will be in jail,\u201d\u00a0Zhou You said at the event, which was hosted by Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), chairman of the International Religious Freedom Caucus. \u201cMy father couldn\u2019t make it, because he was already in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5285325\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/23\/id5285325-05232023-DSC05334-You-Zhou.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> You Zhou, a panelist, speaks at a briefing on the persecution of Falun Gong, on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>Zhou You was one of three people who <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GGz5P3pLW3Y\">shared their stories<\/a> of loss and separation under the Chinese regime\u2019s 24-year-long campaign that has resulted in millions of Falun Gong practitioners being detained in prisons, black jails, and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual practice, which involves a set of meditative exercises and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawmakers-denounce-ccps-unrelenting-23-year-persecution-of-falun-gong\/\" title=\"US Lawmakers Denounce CCP\u2019s \u2018Unrelenting\u2019 23-Year Persecution of Falun Gong\">moral teachings centered<\/a> on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, surged in popularity in the 1990s, leading to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-deplorable-persecution-of-falun-gong-under-spotlight-at-congress-briefing\/\" title=\"Congress Briefing Highlights CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong as 'Deplorable'\">estimated 100 million practitioners<\/a> in China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>engineer has been detained in China since 2018 on charges of espionage. His family believes he is innocent and is calling for his release. This is a reversal of roles for the family, as Zhou Deyong had previously fought for his wife&#8217;s release from jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":1936762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[27472,7060,5948,4402,7736,7735,6953,19118],"class_list":["post-1936761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-deplorable","tag-briefing","tag-ccps","tag-congress","tag-falun","tag-gong","tag-highlights","tag-persecution"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}