Mother of Amy Yu
Amy Yu, stilista a Londra, non vede i suoi genitori da 22 anni. Nel 2016, i genitori di Amy hanno tentato di farle visita a Londra, ma le autorità cinesi li hanno bloccati. Dopo aver respinto le loro richieste di passaporto e di visto, ai suoi genitori è stato detto che non avrebbero mai ottenuto il passaporto a causa della loro fede nel Falun Gong.
Nella foto in alto (a sinistra) la madre Meihong Wang e la figlia Amy Yu nel 1993. Sullo sfondo il carattere cinese “amore”. Questa è una delle poche foto che Amy è riuscita a trovare dopo che la polizia ha preso tutti gli effetti personali della famiglia. (A destra), Amy Yu nel 2013, che ha parlato a nome dei suoi genitori alla mostra Zhen Shan Ren Art nello Yorkshire, in Inghilterra.
Case Summary
Meihong Wang / 王楣泓 – Gender: Female, Born: 1958
Zhonghai Yu / 于宗海 – Gender: Male, Born: 1957
Current status: Wang is detained.
Reason for Detention: In 2020, Meihong Wang was arrested twice for talking to people on the streets of Harbin City about Falun Gong. After being detained for a year, she was sentenced to four years in May 2021.
Past Detentions: Her parents have spent a combined 29 years behind bars.
Mrs. Wang was detained from 2003-2014, during which police officers deprived her of sleep, forced her to work all day in extremely hot temperatures, mandated her to sit on a small stool for long periods of time, and deprived her of any freedom of movement and speech. Her right knee was permanently damaged because a prison guard and a felon in her cell dragged Wang down from her bed and beat her for meditating on her bed.
Yu was detained in 1999 and imprisoned from 2001-2016. Amy was also detained in a brainwashing center when she was in primary school.
Current location: Meihong Wang is currently incarcerated in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison.
Family Residence: London
Personal Background
Mrs. Meihong Wang was a senior engineer in the City Geological Institute and an outstanding employee. Amy’s mother had sparkling eyes and dancing fingers, which dutifully bundled her daughter up for the cold northeastern weather each morning as she left for school.
Mr. Zhonghai Yu is a professional oil painter, ice sculptor, and graphic designer at his local library. He was honored several times as a model employee by the City and State Libraries. Yu was a witty and intelligent father in Amy’s memories; he would tease her, tell her stories, and teach her how to draw. He would also bring back big stacks of books from the city library where he worked, which Amy eagerly devoured. After he was released from detainment, Yu drew the waterboard torture he went through.

Their daughter Amy Minghui Yu (35) currently resides in Edmonton, London.

After elementary school, Amy was forced to grow up independently because her mother and father were both detained since the early 2000s. She left China by herself in 2010 to study fashion design at the Cambridge School of Art (ARU) and as of 2022, it has been 22 years since she last lived with her parents, and 12 since she last saw them.
In April 2021 while attending an event in the UK calling for an end to the persecution, Ms. Yu said, “I don’t know when my mother will be released. I came here today to protest the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because my mother did not commit a crime by practicing Falun Dafa. My parents are now in their 60s. They were imprisoned for over a decade. Their lives are extremely difficult.
“I am very worried. I hope they can release my mother immediately and give her back her freedom. Stop harassing her. It is not wrong to believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.”
Timeline

At the time this secret photo was taken of Mr. Yu in prison, visitors said beyond the injuries visible in the photo, he had been brutally beaten. His leg had been broken and his breastbone was extruding from his chest. He was also reported to have been suffering from dizziness, vision impairment, and mobility issues like walking.
News & Actions

Take Action
1. Contatta i rappresentanti di Amy (London Borough of Camden)
MP Keir Starmer
Contact her borough councillers through the Councillor directory.
2. Condividi la storia di Amy sui Social Media
3. Firma la petizione per Amy su Change.org
Calling for the release of Meihong Wang, mother of UK resident, currently detained in China
4. Invia una lettera di incoraggiamento direttamente alla signora Meihong Wang
Le persone che sono sopravvissute alle carceri cinesi e sono fuggite negli Stati Uniti testimoniano l’enorme differenza che può fare avere notizie dirette dal mondo esterno. Solleva lo spirito di coloro che sono ingiustamente detenuti e scuote i funzionari locali, rendendoli cauti nel partecipare ulteriormente alla persecuzione.
È possibile inviare i biglietti direttamente alla signora Meihong Wang a questo indirizzo:
黑龙江省女子监狱
Heilongjiang Women’s Prison
南岗区学府路 387号 邮编:150069
Xuefu Road, Nangang District, 150069,
China

