A Los Angeles resident is appealing to a bipartisan congressional commission for help in saving the life of her wrongfully imprisoned nephew in China.
Karen Kang, a U.S. citizen, has penned a letter to Rep. Chris Smith (D-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (R-Ore.), chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), respectively. In her letter, she said that her nephew Hou Lijun, who is more than 50 years old, has been “tortured physically and psychologically” in prison due to his faith.
“He is in critical condition now,” Kang recently told The Epoch Times, noting that since she sent the letter, she learned from sources in China’s judiciary that Hou was transferred from his prison cell to China’s 109 Hospital, which is run by the Chinese regime’s public security apparatus, due to his poor health….