A Chinese refugee who has been taken in by New Zealand has written to New Zealand’s prime minister, foreign minister, and others, asking for their help in pressuring Beijing to immediately release of his father, a human rights activist who remains detained in his homeland China. Xing Jian, a new permanent residence in Wellington, New Zealand, wrote to 110 New Zealand MPs, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, on June 29, urging them to request that Beijing unconditionally release his father, Xing Wangli. He also urged them to keep voicing their concerns about China’s abysmal human rights record under Chinese Communist Party rule. On July 5, Xing Jian told The Epoch Times that his father is being held by Chinese authorities on suspicion of libel. He is detained in the Xixian County Detention Center, Xinyang city, in central China’s Henan province. What led to the arrest, Xing revealed, was …