Huhu

Huhu is a 4-year-old boy from Beijing. His father, Mr. Yu Chao, is a 30-year-old network engineer. His mother, Ms. Chu Tong, is 32 years old and was a lecturer in the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University.

On April 25, 2000, Huhu’s father, Mr. Yu Chao, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal top the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Because of this, he was detained for one month and was then sentenced to one year of forced labor. Later he was allowed to serve the sentence outside the labor camp.

On October 27, 1999, when Huhu’s mother, Ms. Chu Tong, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong, the police brutally beat her. They then arrested her and detained her in the No. 7 Section of the Beijing City Police Department. She was sentenced to one and a half years in prison without any legal procedure. After her release in the summer of 2001, she wrote an article exposing the persecution she had received in prison and published her “solemn declaration” expressing her intention to continue cultivating Falun Gong. She and her husband, Mr. Yu, were forced to leave their home with their son Huhu to avoid recapture and further persecution.

The police kept tracking them and even closely watched the apartment of Huhu’s grandparents. The options that the small family had were limited. In August 2002, the police from National Security Bureau and Beijing “610 Office” captured Huhu’s parents. Huhu has been separated from his parents and is cared for by a family friend.

type=Case, Children; type=Case, Family; location=Beijing;