Epoch Times - ‘My Mom’s Tires Were Slashed’: How the CCP Is Targeting Pastor Ezra Jin’s Family in America

Feb. 24, 2026 - Epoch Times

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‘My Mom’s Tires Were Slashed’: How the CCP Is Targeting Pastor Ezra Jin’s Family in America

Pastor Ezra Jin’s family faces escalating Chinese Communist Party (CCP) repression: since October, his advocate’s mother in Chicago received fraud threats from impersonators, her tires slashed in a garage, and his husband hit by phishing/cyberattacks to steal passports. Surveillance in D.C. meetings forced security upgrades, exposing China’s tactic of weaponizing fabricated charges—like the arbitrary law used against Jin—to silence dissent and coerce repatriation, proving repression knows no borders. [Automatically generated summary]
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Chinese Intimidation Tactics 00:02:39
	The Chinese regime is known for what's typically dubbed transnational repression, the targeting of family members or just Chinese in general in America, in other countries.
	Have you encountered any of this?
	Yes.
	So I think the Chinese wants to intimidate people and they're probably one of the large, they're the country that has the most amount of transnational repression cases that's been reported from around the world.
	And many of them are not even reported because people are afraid to speak out.
	And since I've been speaking out about my father's case since October, my family and I have also been targeted and harassed by the Chinese government.
	Specifically, my mom, who lives in Chicago area, she's been harassed by people on the like on her phone.
	There were people impersonating federal agents saying, claiming that she had committed fraud, that she has to go back to China to clear her name.
	And that's a very common tactic to kind of force people to voluntarily go back to China.
	We also saw most recently my mom's tires were slashed inside her garage, but nothing else was taken.
	So it really is like a fear tactic.
	My husband has been targeted as well with a lot of phishing expeditions and cyber attacks.
	I feel like they're sending phishing emails to try to get him to give up his passports and stuff like that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they're like very targeted.
	And for me, like even in Washington, D.C., I felt that I've been watched and followed, especially when I'm meeting people to talk about my father's case, etc.
	So we now live in a house surrounded by security cameras and my husband sleeps with a metal bat next to his bedside, which is pretty ridiculous.
	But like, I think that the fear is honestly pretty real, like to know that, to know that China doesn't want people to be talking about this.
	And for them, like, they would rather for us to just quietly just let whatever happens happens.
Realizing Injustice 00:00:20
	But like at this point, I also realize that China is not going to give my father a fair trial.
	So unless and there is no such thing as a fair trial because his crime is not really a crime.
	Like they just made the law to do whatever they want.

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Chinese Intimidation Tactics 00:02:39

The Chinese regime is known for what's typically dubbed transnational repression, the targeting of family members or just Chinese in general in America, in other countries.

Have you encountered any of this?

Yes.

So I think the Chinese wants to intimidate people and they're probably one of the large, they're the country that has the most amount of transnational repression cases that's been reported from around the world.

And many of them are not even reported because people are afraid to speak out.

And since I've been speaking out about my father's case since October, my family and I have also been targeted and harassed by the Chinese government.

Specifically, my mom, who lives in Chicago area, she's been harassed by people on the like on her phone.

There were people impersonating federal agents saying, claiming that she had committed fraud, that she has to go back to China to clear her name.

And that's a very common tactic to kind of force people to voluntarily go back to China.

We also saw most recently my mom's tires were slashed inside her garage, but nothing else was taken.

So it really is like a fear tactic.

My husband has been targeted as well with a lot of phishing expeditions and cyber attacks.

I feel like they're sending phishing emails to try to get him to give up his passports and stuff like that.

Yeah, yeah.

And they're like very targeted.

And for me, like even in Washington, D.C., I felt that I've been watched and followed, especially when I'm meeting people to talk about my father's case, etc.

So we now live in a house surrounded by security cameras and my husband sleeps with a metal bat next to his bedside, which is pretty ridiculous.

But like, I think that the fear is honestly pretty real, like to know that, to know that China doesn't want people to be talking about this.

And for them, like, they would rather for us to just quietly just let whatever happens happens.

Realizing Injustice 00:00:20

But like at this point, I also realize that China is not going to give my father a fair trial.

So unless and there is no such thing as a fair trial because his crime is not really a crime.

Like they just made the law to do whatever they want.