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A
year ago this month, Anni and Ruli Zhang arrived in the United States.
Ten year old Anni had to leave China because she had been detained and
then denied the right to go to school. She is known as "China's youngest
prisoner of conscience." Her venerated activist father is still in jail
for having helped her. With the help of many brave people in China and
the United States, Anni and Ruli obtained safe passage to the United
States. My husband, Robert, and I are overjoyed to welcome them into our
family. Here is a beautiful profile of our family, published by
LifeSiteNews. WRWF's "Save a Girl" campaign is not only saving girls in
China, but also around our own kitchen table.
She prayed for years for a Chinese daughter - now she’s raising China’s youngest political prisoner
By Kirsten Anderson
(LifeSiteNews.com) - A U.S.-based human rights
activist is raising China’s youngest known political prisoner and her
sister after the girls fled their native country, where their famous
father is still imprisoned.
Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers, which fights gendercide and forced abortion in Asia,
recently told LifeSiteNews the dramatic story of the events that led to
her adoption of the girls, in a video interview with Managing Director
Steve Jalsevac in Washington, DC.
Littlejohn said that Anni Zhang, 11, and her
elder sister Ruli, 19, left China in September after their father,
political dissident and nuclear physicist Zhang Lin, was once again
imprisoned for speaking out against the Communist government. He had
already spent 13 years behind bars for his involvement in planning the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and for publishing comments critical
of the Chinese government online.
Zhang’s most recent imprisonment came after Anni
– then ten years old – was kidnapped from her school by the authorities
and detained overnight without food, water, a toilet, or even a
blanket. After she was returned to her father, she was told that she
would not be allowed to attend school anymore because of her father’s
pro-democracy activism. Read More
Learn more about WRWF’s “Save a Girl” Campaign: http://
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