Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging the State Department to do more to help a Florida family’s husband and father who has been detained in China for nearly two years for his faith.
Zhou Deyong, a geological engineer, was arrested in a police sweep targeting Falun Gong practitioners and their family members in eastern China’s Shandong Province in April 2021. He was then placed in the province’s Binhai Detention Center for over a year before being put on trial in August 2022.
His wife You Ling and his son Zhou You currently reside in Florida. Zhou came to the United States to visit them in 2020, before traveling back to China to take care of his ailing parents….