Yu Jing, who had escaped China after being persecuted for her faith, did not expect that she would feel her freedom threatened in her new-found home.
Once an official with the state-run China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau in communist China, Yu lost her job and was subjected to three arrests and two house raids for her faith in Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.
The spiritual practice involves a set of moral teachings with truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance as its core principles, as well as five meditative exercises. By 1999, an estimated 70 million to 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong. Viewing the practice’s popularity as a threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) power, then-leader Jiang Zemin ordered a brutal nationwide campaign of suppression that continues today….