Chen Shu-ya (
"My husband had called me every day, and on Oct. 7 he sent me a mobile phone text message saying he was coming home. He was scheduled to return the next day, but he did not show up and I lost communication with him completely," Chen said at a press conference.
Lin and Chen, 29, were married in May, and Chen is a Falun Gong practitioner.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
Chen said that she sought help from a friend in China and found out her husband had been detained by the national security bureau in Shanghai, although they could not discover why.
"I have no faith in China's human rights record, and although my husband is still alive, I don't know how he is doing at all," she said.
Chen said that she was proud of her husband and would continue practicing Falun Gong.
The Taiwan Falun Dafa Institute yesterday condemned the Chinese government for what it called the illegal detention of Taiwanese and abuse of Falun Gong practitioners. The institute asked the Taiwanese government to help rescue Lin.
"China should release innocent Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners immediately, and the legislature should condemn former Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民)'s cruelty," said Chang Ching-hsi (張清溪), director of the institute.
Chang said that Lin's was not the only case of a Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner running into trouble with the authorities when visiting China.
Lin's case was reported to the Straits Exchange Foundation last Friday, but no further information has been offered by the Chinese government, Chang said.
Fan Kuo-hua (
Fan visited his father in China last year and tried to disseminate information on how the Chinese government had abused local Falun Gong practitioners. He was arrested by the police and immediately deported.
Theresa Chu (朱婉琪), a Taiwa-nese lawyer who is a practitioner of New York State's bar and a Falun Gong practitioner, said that the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners was in violation of international conventions.
Legislators from different parties also expressed their support for rescuing Lin. They have agreed to push for a motion in the legislature and demand that the government accelerates communication with the Chinese authority.
"I hope the legislators, irrespective of which party they belong to, can all agree on a motion to urge Beijing to stop its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners," said Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Cho-shui (
"We hope the Chinese government would explain what crime Lin Shao-kai has committed as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the [Taiwanese] government should accelerate its rescue actions," said Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wang Chung-yu (
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