Gao Zhi Xiang: Religious Persecution

Lin Mei Zhang Dept: My mother s will was to be buried at her birthplace. Without her proof of citizenship in China, we can t get her a cemetery plot or send her back there, her son, Gao Zhi Xiang, said in an interview in Mandarin, according to The Star. Lin had been granted asylum in Canada on grounds of religious persecution, but died of colon cancer in October 2009, while her application for permanent residence was still in process and three years after Lin Mei Zhang died of cancer, her ashes remain in storage at a Toronto funeral home because immigration officials have lost the refugee s Chinese ID card. After all these years, we still can t put her to rest. She just wanted to be home in her death. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.