Tom Phillips, 'I Want to Rescue My Dad': Children's Heartbreak for the Lawyers China Has Taken Away; Li Heping's six-year-old daughter Li Jiamei dresses as a superhero, hoping to free her human rights lawyer father from prison.
https://www.theguardian.com/worl ... yer-china-superhero
Note:
(a) 李和平 女兒 李佳美 (She is the one who can not go to school.)
(b) "She's [daughter's] small. She misses her dad,' said her mother, Wang Qiaoling 王峭岭, during a two-hour interview conducted in the smokey backroom of a Beijing café in order escape the gaze of security agents who now monitor the lawyers' families around the clock. * * * said the 44-year-old [wife], quoting from the Epistle to the Romans"
(i) Epistle to the Romans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans
(section 8 Purposes of writing)
(ii) epistle (n; etymology): "LETTER; especially : a formal or elegant letter"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Epistle
(c) "Those bundled into secret detention included not just some of China's most experienced and outspoken civil rights lawyers but also their young employees, such as Zhao Wei 趙威 [(考拉); 李和平律師助理)], an idealistic 24-year-old legal assistant who has also been held incommunicado since July. 'All I can say is that I feel furious and helpless,' Zhao's husband, You Mingle 游明磊 "
(i) bundle (vt):
"simple definition: to move or push (someone) into a place quickly;
full definition: to hustle or hurry unceremoniously <bundled the children off to school>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bundle
(ii) China has the surname 游! And 原! (see(e) )
(d) On July 10, 2015: "At about 10am, father and daughter pulled up outside the law firm where he worked on Beijing's Liangmaqiao Road 朝阳区 亮马桥路. Within seconds, Li’s brown Honda SUV had been surrounded by police."
(e) "Yuan Shanshan 原珊珊, the 36-year-old wife of Xie Yanyi 谢燕益, another detained attorney, was one month pregnant when her husband was detained on 12 July 2016 [sic; should be 2015]. Xie, who remains in custody, was not there to hold her hand when she gave birth to a baby daughter in March. He was also unable to attend his mother’s funeral after she died on 22 August last year."
(f) "Wang Guangwei, the three-year-old son of Wang Quanzhang 王全璋, another imprisoned lawyer, has also been deprived of his father. 'It has turned our life upside down,' said Li Wenzu 李文足 [a lawyer in her own right], his 31-year-old mother."
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