Eight Florida lawmakers are urging the State Department to help free the father of a Sunshine State resident who has been detained in China for over a year amid the communist regime’s ongoing campaign targeting his faith.
Zhou Deyong, a geological engineer, was one among nearly two dozen Falun Gong practitioners rounded up by police in Dongying city of eastern Shandong Province in a series of raids last April. He has been detained in Binhai Detention Center for the past one-and-a-half years—without a formal trial until late last month—while having restricted access to his lawyer.
Zhou’s son and wife, who reside in Florida haven’t been able to talk with him since his arrest….