Commentary A woman, nameless and faceless to most, has been swallowed by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) prisons. This woman is a poet and a painter. She has a name. Xu Na. But the world is largely silent about her suffering. The same prisons in China that opened their doors to her include the concrete cells in which over 100 prisoners of conscience were tortured and killed last year, and over 5,000 arrested. These prisons hold millions of Uyghurs, Falun Gong adherents, Tibetans, and Chinese human rights advocates. They might soon hold millions of Christian prisoners of conscience. There are 44 million Christians at risk today in China. Like all prisoners of conscience, Xu Na has principles. She believes in truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. These values are universal to most religions. But they are illegal in China. They are the main tenets of Xu Na’s Falun Gong spiritual practice that, …
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