Opinion ID: 1237887
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Summary of Zhao's Application for Withholding under the Act and the CAT

Text: According to Zhao, his wife, Qing Yang, was born on October 22, 1975. They met when they were seventeen years old and fell in love. He describes having a traditional marriage on July 15, 1993 (without civil registration) with the consent of his father. His wife became pregnant five months later, in December of that year. Zhao stated that, according to previous China family planning policy, you have to be twenty-five or older to have a baby, and they were not old enough to obtain birth permission. [4] In early February 1994, the government's officer knows ( sic ) this news. They come to my house to take my wife away. We had a big fight. I tried to stop them to touch my wife, so they pushed and hit me. Zhao continues by saying he could not stop them from taking his wife to the local hospital where she was forced to take an abortion. He reports that he was detained in the police department for a month because he did not agree with the action the Chinese government took against his wife forcing her to have the abortion. He was fined 2000 RMB for release. [5] Zhao describes that his wife was depressed for a long time after she lost her baby and wanted to stay with her mother. Zhao felt helpless, hopeless and angry. He recounts further that, one day, when he was walking down the street he happened to see the officer who took his wife away. He describes that, I was thinking about my baby and my poor wife and I can't help myself ... I caught the officer and hit him a couple of times and run ( sic ) away. He states that he then went to his mother-in-law's house to see his wife and right after he arrived, his dad called and told him that the police officer came to my house to try to arrest me, so my father told me don't come back, run as far as possible. Since then, Zhao reports on his application, we are in government's `not decent citizen list.' We had no future in China. I was running around in my relatives' houses for about ( sic ) year. Zhao describes that he then found a snakehead through a friend of mine and left his country in February 1994. [6] He reports entering the United States (Los Angeles) in February 1995 without his wife. Zhao's application concludes that if he returned to China, he fears he would be tortured, harmed or mistreated, specifically, by being jailed by the Chinese government.