Wang Xiaomei

Amnesty International is urgently appealing for the release of two Falun Gong practitioners, Wang Xiaodong and Wang Junling, who have recently been detained by the Chinese authorities and are now at risk of torture and ill-treatment.

The case against Wang Xiaodong, the detained Falun Gong practitioner from rural China whose arrest inspired 300 fellow villagers to petition the Communist Communist Party calling for his release, has been returned to the local Public Security Bureau after the prosecutor said it lacked evidence, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Epoch Times has learned that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection submitted a document to the 24-member Central Politburo about the petition.

Wang Xiaodong’s arrest left his 7-year-old son and elderly mother, who is in her seventies, to fend for themselves.

As Zhang Guoxiang languishes in a brainwashing facility while officials attempt to strip him of his spiritual belief, he is probably unaware that a whole village is risking all to free him.

The villagers were targeted, in what appeared to be an order coming down from Party Central to retaliate fiercely against anyone who dared to defend Falun Gong.