When Zou Rongfa was born in November 1999, her father
Zou Songtao was confined in a detention center because he had gone to
Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After multiple arrests, Rongfa's father
eventually died at the hands of the police. After the death of her father,
the police kept harassing and closely watching Rongfa's mother, Zhang
Yunhe. In February 2002, the police arrested her mother. Ms. Zhang is
still being held in a detention center. Fatherless and separated from
her mother, Rongfa had to stay with her grandmother, who was over 60
years old. Sadly, her grandmother became ill and died from the pain of
losing her son-in-law and being separated from her daughter.
Rongfa has lost her father, her mother, and her grandmother, the three people
she loved most. Whenever she misses her family, she steps on a little stool so
that she can reach up to kiss her Daddy's box of ashes.
Rongfa's parents Songtao and Zhang Yunhe