A Chinese student in Australia exposed the threats and harassment her family experienced from Chinese authorities after she participated in rights defending activities overseas. To protect her family, she uses the alias “Zoo,” a pun for “keen observer.”
Zoo started her study in Australia last June. She has organized two memorials in Melbourne for the CCP virus victim Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who first publicized information about the outbreak in December 2019. Last October, she went to Hong Kong to participate in the pro-democracy demonstrations.
In April, the CCP’s state security identified Zoo’s real name and her family background. The officers summoned Zoo’s father in the middle of the night. They told him that Zoo allegedly committed the crimes of inciting overseas Chinese people to assemble in front of the Chinese embassy and teaching the Chinese how to bypass the Great Firewall, the Chinese regime’s sophisticated online censorship mechanism. They forced her father to obtain her Twitter password and asked him to persuade her to turn herself in.
Zoo told The Epoch Times that her father was a Communist Party member and a professional scholar studying Marxism. After being threatened by the state security agency, her father recently tried to persuade her to return home.
