根据CTV的报道
这位张女士还有一个20岁的儿子与她同在加拿大,而她的老公目前在中国。
Zhang, whose 20-year-old son is also in Canada, defected earlier this month and claimed refugee status when her husband's posting here was about to expire.
Now she's concerned of what will happen to her husband in China.
以下是CTV的原文
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Wife of Chinese diplomat in Ottawa defects
Updated Fri. Mar. 30 2007 11:25 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...hina_defection_070330/20070330?hub=TopStories
The wife of a Chinese diplomat working out of the Ottawa embassy has defected, believing her spiritual beliefs would make a return to her country dangerous.
Jiyan Zhang said Friday she is a practitioner of Falun Gong.
"I sensed it was going to be quite dangerous for me," she told reporters on Parliament Hill.
Falun Gong is a discipline banned by China's communist government and many practitioners claim they have been tortured because of their beliefs.
During Zhang's press conference, protesters rallied outside supporting those who quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhang, whose 20-year-old son is also in Canada, defected earlier this month and claimed refugee status when her husband's posting here was about to expire.
Now she's concerned of what will happen to her husband in China.
"Something can happen to my husband because of me, because he's in the hands of the regime," she said.
But a senior Chinese diplomat dismissed her claim, and even questioned whether she was really a practitioner of Falun Gong.
"They know the best way to get refugee status is to claim they are Falun Gong practitioners," Huang Huikang of the Chinese Embassy told CTV News.
Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said the decision whether to grant Zhang refugee status will be up to the refugee board.
"We hope to keep things ... on an even keel as far as our discussions with China on these and other important matters," he said.
The protest rally was heralded as a show of support for "the over 20 million people in China who have withdrawn from the Communist party and its related organizations."
A press release issued by Quitting CCP Center (Canada) calls the Chinese government a blood-thirsty regime.
"As Chinese-Canadians, we have worried for years about China and the lives of our 1.3 billion people under control of this blood-thirsty regime. Now the Chinese are saying "No" to the tyrannical Chinese Communist regime," says the release.
With a report by CTV's Roger Smith in Ottawa