Chen Weijie, a Chinese dissident who escaped to the U.S. in 2023 due to persecution of his family by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has a removal hearing scheduled tomorrow. Weijie, who is from Fenyi County, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province and a former fitness coach from Shenzhen, is seeking asylum in the U.S.
His brother’s family was persecuted for years by the CCP government in China due to their religious beliefs. They were arrested multiple times and imprisoned each time for a couple of years, leaving their two young children unable to attend school for five years. His brother and sister-in-law passed away as young adults due to CCP torture, leaving their children orphans. His uncle’s two daughters were imprisoned multiple times and still dare not return home.
In 1988, when Weijie was a child, his uncle’s family was caught evading CCP-family planning policies. Officials from the family planning office came and demolished half of a beautiful new brick house that his father and uncle had jointly built. They also seized the family’s pig raised for the New Year. Weijie’s parents both passed away during his childhood.
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