The wife of the former head of Interpol, Ming Hongwei, has expressed concern about her husband's life and her personal safety, strongly condemning what she called the "harshness" of the Chinese government, which she suspended under mysterious circumstances.
"I think it's a political persecution," Grace Ming said in an interview in France, where her husband was based at the International Criminal Police Organization. I'm not sure he's alive. "
Ming, the former deputy secretary of public security, disappeared in late September on his return to China. He resigned from INTERPOL's presidency on Oct. 7 after Chinese authorities announced his condition under investigation and charged him with bribery.
"I say (to my children) and your father went on a long-term business trip," Grace Ming said in an interview in which she hid her face.
The "limitless" capabilities of the Chinese authorities have been stifled in their response to opponents, saying they have received telephone threats and are "targeted" in France.
The remarks by Grace Ming, in an interview with Britain's BBC, are a rare sharp criticism of the Chinese government by the victims of Beijing's crackdown on corruption, whose cases are often kept secret, and only the official version of events .