As reported previously by The Epoch Times, Su Hongyu, 27, the son of Liu Shu Jia, is being sought by Fushun City police to prevent him from participating in NTDTV's International Chinese Vocal Competition in New York. Ms. Liu arrived safely in New York from Germany where she is seeking asylum. She is also participating in the competition in the folk singing category as an amateur.
Richard Yin, a spokesman from NTDTV, said the network sent a fax to the American consulate asking assistance. An anonymous source in Fushun said police authorities admitted they had seen the contents of the fax to the American consulate. The consulate is now investigating this intelligence leak.
One of the contestants, a Ms. Zhao Man, 38, voluntarily went to the authorities to explain her intentions and was immediately placed under 24-hour surveillance. In a statement that defies logic, authorities said that NTDTV had changed the date of the competition from November to October to compete with a political event in China.
Ms. Zhao's passport was taken away and she was ordered to check in to the police station every day. The policemen asked her where the other two competitors were, and told her that they would jail all three of them. The police claimed that they would place Mr. Su and the other singer on a "Wanted List" all over the country.
At 6:00 a.m. on October 11, three policemen and a residential subdivision guard broke into Su Hongyu's house. Su's mother, Liu Shu Jia, who lives in Germany, told the reporter from the Epoch Times in a phone interview: "They tried to arrest my son but failed. They made a big mess in his house and badly scared my mother. It is too much. What if my mother passed away [from fright]? My son just wanted to enter the vocal competition. Is there something wrong with that?"
Mr. Su was not at home at the time of the break-in and is now in a safe house. His 86-year-old grandmother was present during the break-in and witnessed the ransacking. This was the third attempt in three days that the police tried to arrest Mr. Su. Su Hongyu's uncle asked policemen for an explanation for the search, but they gave no reason nor had a search warrant or court order for the search.
Su Hongyu is a professional singer who wanted to sing in the Bel Canto division.
The Epoch Times has obtained the contents of the fax sent to the consulate. That Chinese authorities would have direct information of the contents raises serious security questions within the American consulate.
Hong Kaili, a spokeswoman for NTDTV, said, "The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) behavior is shameless and irrational. As the host of the 2008 Olympics, the CCP claimed that the human rights situation in China has been improved. But from this incident, we see that it is actually getting worse. The whole world should pay attention to this."
Ms. Hong continued, "The vocal competition promotes Chinese traditional arts. The CCP tried to interfere with our recent Chinese dance competition. After all their tricks failed, they asked their policemen to keep artists from entering the competition."
Ms. Hong pointed out, "The CCP's evil and violent philosophy goes against real traditional Chinese culture. All their tricks to interfere with NTDTV have failed, and have actually made NTDTV more well-known. Their harassment will help us to promote our competition. People will see that every interference from the CCP will only help to promote justice."
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