Son’s Plea to Rescue Imprisoned Father

A German resident is appealing to politicians across the world to free his father. He was arrested in China for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline rooted in Buddhist traditions. Practitioners are still persecuted in China for their faith, and evidence shows they're targets for forced organ harvesting. NTT's Jane Werrell has more. A plea to free his parents. Le Beng Ding, a resident in Germany, is doing everything he can to help his parents from outside his homeland, China. Because of the one-child policy by the Chinese Communist Party, I'm the only child in my family, and my parents will be older and older, so they need me. This is one request to the Chinese embassy. They must stop the persecution of my parents immediately and release my father immediately and unconditionally and grant them travel documents. Let them come to Germany. His parents were detained in May this year as part of a mass arrest campaign in Shandong province. International pressure led to the release of his mother on bail, but she is still under surveillance. His father remains in custody. We spoke at a peaceful protest in Paris, where thousands of practitioners of Falun Gong walked through the streets, celebrating Falun Gong's values of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance, and calling for the end to the persecution in China. The first 12 days, nobody knows where were my parents, but they are good people. They are peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. They have done nothing against Chinese law. They were just disappeared. A former French secretary of state for education showed her support. Politicians in Europe and local officials in Japan have sent letters to those responsible. Le Beng continues to plea for his parents' freedom. Zhang Wero, NTD News.