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In an exclusive interview with CNN in Lyon, Grace Meng was moved to tears when she spoke about her 7-year-old son, claiming that she had not told them what had happened to their father , Meng Hongwei, and that she had kept them away from the television to protect them from information.
"Maybe they can feel that something has happened," she said. When they notice her crying, Grace Meng says that she tells them that she has a cold.
"I do not want to break their hearts," said Meng. "I am very – you know my heart, you know my emotion, they (the Chinese authorities) like the things under the table, in the dark room," said Meng.
While Grace Meng was talking to CNN, keeping her face hidden throughout the interview, her cell phone rang three times. She said the Chinese consulate had been calling incessantly, but that she had refused to meet them alone and would only do so with the media and a lawyer.
Her husband had been president of Interpol for two years when he had flown to Beijing in late September and had volatilized. Beijing has announced in recent days that he was being held for corruption. The Chinese authorities have not given details of specific allegations.
Grace Meng now says that she has no idea if she will see him again.
"I miss him a lot, which is why I always get up at night."
In the six years of Xi Jinping's presidency, it is estimated that more than one million civil servants have been punished for widespread repression of corruption, many of them mysteriously disappearing for days while officials Chinese question them.
Critics suggest that the campaign is a tool for Xi to eliminate his political opponents and strengthen his power.
Grace Meng defended her husband as innocent and criticized the Chinese government for the disappearances and lack of transparency on the detentions.
"He is a person of integrity, he is strictly respectful of the law and has worked all his life to help build a society based on the rule of law."
When asked why she was speaking, she said: "For all the children of China, for all the wives of China, for all … the dad of China, mother. "
She said her husband feared the authorities would pursue him after seeing so many people disappear without explanation.
Grace Meng recounted how many elderly Chinese lost their adult children in the disappearances, without ever knowing what had happened to them.
"They are dead but can not see their children, their son, their daughter – they are lost.You can imagine it.I have the responsibility to help others."
CNN's Zahra Ullah contributed to this report.
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