NDP MP Jenny Kwan and democracy and human rights activists are urging Ottawa to step in to prevent the forced return of a UN-registered Chinese dissident who fled persecution by Beijing and was detained in Thailand in May, just ahead of her reportedly planned resettlement in Canada.
Zhang Xinyan was elected last year to the Toronto-based “Hong Kong Parliament,” established by Hong Kong democracy activists overseas in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control of Hong Kong.
Zhang, who is a Falun Dafa practitioner, fled China to Thailand in 2014. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual meditation practice that is persecuted by China’s communist regime. Practitioners of the discipline in China are subjected to arbitrary arrests, torture, killings, and even live forced organ harvesting….