NEW YORK—For the past 15 years, a cellphone was the only thing that held together Steven Wang and his family, who are an ocean away in China.
It was a phone call that brought the news of his father’s death in 2009—of kidney failure resulting from years of torture while detained in a Chinese prison because of his faith.
In another phone call, Wang learned about his mother’s arrest in July 2022. Earlier this month, he found out she had been sentenced to four years in prison—for the same reason his father was imprisoned.
It hurts Wang to think that the thread he holds to his loved ones is so fragile….
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