Concerned People Telling the World about Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

(Clearwisdom.net) Representatives of the World Organization to
Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WIPFG), Epoch Times, and "Quit
the CCP" Service Centers held a forum and press conference in Washington, D.C.,
on June 5, 2008. Spokespersons from the different organizations reported on the
recent CCP-instigated incidents in New York in which mobsters attacked Falun
Gong practitioners and the CCP-controlled Chinese language media misled the
Chinese community, spreading lies to slander Falun Gong around the world through
the Internet, video, and other channels in attempts to shift attention away from
its own imminent collapse. Congressmen at the forum strongly condemned the CCP
and asked the American government to expel the criminals involved.

Forum to discuss violence and mayhem in Flushing incited by the Chinese
Communist Party.

Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo

Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

Mr. Li Dayong, representative of the Quit the CCP Service Center

A video of the CCP-instigated mobsters attacking Falun Gong practitioners in
Flushing was screened at the forum.

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) strongly protested the CCP's
involvement in these activities. He said the case would be submitted to the
United Nations Security Council and hoped that the American government would
respond.

"I believe that the Chinese consulate and others were responsible for
organizing these thugs and attacking people who were peacefully going about
their business," he said. "The government of the United States should
investigate this and, if I am accurate in my assumption about the cause, should
lodge a protest to the government of China and take as strong an action as
possible, including the request for the removal of the offending parties.

"We cannot have in this country violations of citizens' basic rights being
perpetrated by people who did not respect them in their own country and who try
to impose these kinds of 'values,' if you will, on dissidents in our country."

Referring to the Chinese Consul General for New York, Mr. Peng Keyu, who was
caught on tape about his involvement, Tancredo said, "This guy who organized
this thing--who even admits it--he should be ousted. He should be thrown out of
the country--and a strong protest following that to the government of China.
That's what we should do." Congressman Tancredo said he would contact the White
House and the State Department.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) said, "Falun Gong is standing up
as a symbol of what the true heart and soul of China could be if it wasn't
polluted and tainted with Communist tyranny. The soul of China could be
benevolent and spiritual in nature. They would not trample on the rights of
anyone in the world, and they would be part of the human family.

"And that message of Falun Gong is something that tyrants fear more than
guns, more than weapons. What tyrants fear is the facts. What they fear is the
exposure of their evildoings. There is a good and positive alternative to that
evil--and that is virtue. I admire Falun Gong, and I'm proud to stand up here
with Falun Gong, not just in China, but especially with the Falun Gong
practitioners active here in the United States and facing intimidation."

Congressman Rohrabacher said, "What we have to do is be very diligent, that
in the United States, at least here, we protect the rights of people who are
struggling for freedom. I know in the past we have had our own shortcomings, but
the fact is, today, if the Statue of Liberty means anything, it means that here
in United States, those people who would like to bring liberty and justice to
different parts of the world will be protected... I call on this administration
to make a stand. If we're not going to make a stand anywhere else in the world
against this horribly repressive regime, it should be at least in the United
States that we make that stand."

Mr. Wang Zhiyuan, representative of the World Organization to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong, said that, a few days before the Flushing incident,
his organization released an "Investigative Report on the CCP's Control of
Overseas Chinese and Global United Front Work Strategy." The report, released on
the WIPFG website on May 15, was quickly reprinted by websites and BBS not
controlled by the CCP. It covers the CCP's global united front strategy,
overseas forces in action, major tactics used by the CCP to control overseas
Chinese, and how it seeks and gains worldwide resources through an Open Door
Policy. The CCP has established a Chinese immigrant political strategy and
procedures that specifically target the overseas Chinese. They have conducted
systematic, long-term deceptive propaganda and indoctrination of Chinese
Communist ideological concepts. The regime has worked on exploiting Chinese
immigrants' sentimental emotions towards their homeland, confusing them and
lumping together the notion that China and the CCP are the same, and instigating
them to believe that it is legitimate to act loyally to the Chinese Communist
Party.

The report revealed that the CCP controls most of the overseas Chinese media
at different levels and has periodically trained overseas Chinese community
leaders. Mr. Wang said, "It is no secret in the Chinese community. I hope
governments of all countries pay attention to this."

Mr. Li Dayong, a representative of the Quit the CCP Service Centers,
announced that 37,950,000 people had quit the CCP and its affiliated
organizations as of June 5.

New York Police Department: Assaults in Flushing Cannot
Continue

(Clearwisdom.net) The Service Center for Quitting the Party recently
returned to its original site in front of the Flushing Library, and set up four
more service spots in the neighborhood. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is
concerned about the assaults experienced by volunteers at the Service Center.
Andrew Schaffer, NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs, flanked by two
NYPD legal affairs colleagues, said that the assaults cannot continue, and that
NYPD will protect practitioners from attack.

In the morning of June 5, Schaffer met with the Falun Gong spokesman Erping
Zhang and Norman Siegel, attorney for Falun Gong. Siegel said the meeting was
serious and positive; the NYPD heard the complaints that the rights of Falun
Gong practitioners were not well protected and they promised to improve the
situation. Siegel said his understanding is that the NYPD will have enough
manpower to protect Falun Gong practitioners in future activities.

Mr. Zhang also reported that the meeting was positive. "We planned to meet
with the police from 109 Police Station in Flushing, but the assaults were very
serious and the media has gotten involved, so NYPD is concerned about it too.
Thus we met at NYPD headquarters," Zhang said. "The Deputy Commissioner for
Legal Affairs and two colleagues met with us. They promised to take action
against those who attack and harass Falun Gong practitioners."

Siegel said the focus of the meeting was Falun Gong practitioners' rights
protected by the Constitution. Siegel said they were glad to see that NYPD is
paying attention. "We will see how NYPD carries out their promises in Flushing,
Chinatown and other places in New York," Siegel said.

"Passing out materials and having rallies are rights protected by the
Constitution. Those who attacked them will be punished by the law," said Siegel,
who is a famous human rights lawyer and the chair of the New York Chamber of
American Civil Liberties Union.

Siegel said that freedom of speech is protected by the Constitution.

Siegel said NYPD promised that those who violate this principle and attack
others will be tried as criminals. At the meeting, a five-minute video was
played to show the violent attacks in Flushing. The record of a phone call
conversation between an investigator and the Chinese Consul General Peng Keyu
was also played.

Siegel said everybody at the meeting agreed what happened in the video should
not be allowed to happen again.

Siegel mentioned that violent attacks and damaging practitioners' materials
are not tolerable. He suggested that every practitioner bring a small camera and
take photos of any future incidents, and to report them to the police
immediately.

AFP - US lawmakers blame Chinese government for Falun Gong
attack (excerpts)

(Clearwisdom.net) An AFP report June 5 discussed the recent attacks on Falun
Gong practitioners in New York. Here are some excerpts:

"Two US lawmakers accused the Chinese government Thursday of instigating
attacks on practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group in New York and
called on Washington to lodge a protest with Beijing."

The practitioners were attacked last month in Flushing, in the New York City
borough of Queens, when they were passing out fliers urging people to join the
36 million who have already quit the Chinese Communist Party.

"Six people were arrested -- three charged with assault and others with
disorderly conduct, the New York Times reported at the weekend, quoting local
police."

The practitioners "circulated what they said was a recording of a telephone
conversation in Mandarin between an investigator working on their behalf and a
high-ranking official in the Chinese Consulate in New York in which the official
was heard approving of the scuffles in Flushing, the newspaper said.

"Republican lawmakers Tom Tancredo and Dana Rohrabacher charged Thursday that
the Chinese government were behind the attacks and called on President George W.
Bush's administration to lodge a protest with Beijing and seek an immediate
explanation.

""I believe that the Chinese consulate and others who were responsible for
organizing these thugs and attacking people who were peacefully going about
their business," Tancredo, the representative from Colorado, told a forum on
Capitol Hill.

""The government of the United States should investigate this and, if I am
accurate in my assumption about the cause, should lodge a protest to the
government of China, and take a strong an action as possible, including the
request for the removal of the offending parties," he said.

"Judy Chen, 48, a Chinese-American mother of two sons serving in Iraq with
the US military, said she was among those assaulted.

""Am I in China or America?" asked Chen, who said she emigrated to the United
States after her family members were victimized during the Cultural Revolution."

"The two lawmakers said the attacks on the Falun Gong practitioners were a
clear violation of the right of religious freedom in the United States.

""We may not be able to help the people of China directly but we can help the
people who live here directly," Rohrabacher said, adding that the US Congress
would push the authorities to get to the bottom of the issue.

People in Spain Express Support for 37 Million Withdrawals
from the Chinese Communist Party (Photos)

(Clearwisdom) On May 31, 2008, the Spanish "Quit the CCP Service
Center" and the Falun Gong Association held a rally in Madrid's Phoenix Square
to condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and
express support for the 37 million that have withdrawn from the CCP and its
affiliated organizations.

Though it had been raining for quite a few days in Madrid, the people were
not deterred at all, and popular Phoenix Square was bustling and noisy.

People crowded together to read
the posters

People lined up to sign the
petition to support the over 37 million Chinese that have quit the CCP

People lined up to sign

Three generations expressed
their support

People sign the petition

People signing the petition

Rain can't keep people from
coming and reading

Raining didn't keep people away

Volunteers put up umbrellas for
people signing the petition

Volunteers put up umbrellas

Volunteers put up umbrellas for
people

Passersby helped to support the
banners

When the volunteers from the Service Center were setting out pictures
depicting the CCP persecution of Falun Gong, people immediately gathered to
look. When they saw pictures of the Chinese police beating unarmed elderly
women, electric shocking them, and other kinds of torture, they were indignant
and sad. After viewing the pictures an elderly gentleman repeatedly shook his
head and sighed, "Wherever it goes, the Communist Party will bring disaster. It
is a really human disaster " After seeing the pictures, many people came up
without hesitation to sign the petition to oppose the persecution and support
the 37 million people that have quit the Chinese Communists Party, the Youth
League, and the Young Pioneers. People continued to come up and sign their
names. Sometimes a long queue formed in front of the signature collection table.

Soon after the rally started, it started to rain, but the warmhearted
townspeople, students, and travelers from different countries continued signing
to support Falun Gong and the Chinese people that have quit the CCP. A gale came
up and blew down the picture banner, but the pedestrians soon came and helped to
set it up again. A middle-aged man from Eastern Europe was eager to help
reinforce the banner. He said, "I lived under a communist regime for more than
30 years. I quite understand the evil of the Communist Party, and I support you
guys. You will win in the end."

The people who signed were from different countries and of different ethnic
groups, including Chinese. Chinese people were quitting the CCP on the spot
after learning the truth. A young Chinese man said his grandfather was killed in
the Cultural Revolution, and his father was persecuted as well. Many Chinese
people took copies of the

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party as well as VCDs about Falun
Gong.

Source:http://clearharmony.net/articles/200806/44676.html

Germany: Falun Gong "Information Day" in Freiburg to Raise
Awareness about the Persecution (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners from Germany and
Switzerland held a Falun Gong "Information Day" in Freiburg to disclose the
Chinese Communists' brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and demand
the immediate cessation of the persecution.

It was Saturday, and the weather was fine in Freiburg, so there were many
people out shopping and drinking coffee. The information booth was set up on
Emperor Joseph Street in the city center near the cathedral. Posters were
displayed on the sidewalk so that people could see them easily as they passed
by. A variety of leaflets and other handouts were spread over the exhibition
table so that people could select them easily.

The information day activity started at 9 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m. Many
pedestrians who passed the exhibition stopped and stood before the display. They
read the evidence of the CCP's crimes of cruelly persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners and were very surprised. Some requested further information, and
others came to the booth to sign in support of bringing the persecution to an
end. Although some pedestrians did not see the leaflets, once they heard about
the situation, they immediately asked for information. Some asked for several
copies to bring home to their families and friends to let them know that such
horrendous crimes are still occurring in the world today.

At a taxi station at the other end of the street, there was a long queue for
information. On the benches along both sides of Emperor Joseph Street, people
sat, reading practitioners' leaflets. Even in the open area outside the coffee
shops, people were reading truth clarification materials.

Recently, the German people have expressed particular concern about China's
human rights issues. At the exhibition table, many were actively discussing
these issues, such as how the CCP had acted was so different from its decades of
propaganda, and so on.

Source:
http://clearharmony.net/articles/200806/44641.html

Facts of the Persecution

Two Brothers and a Sister Arrested and Tortured

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Fu Hongru is over 50 years old and lives in
Tonghua City, Jilin Province. On April 23, 2008, he was arrested by the Tuanjie
police and for the next two days was shocked with electric batons and beaten.
When he was taken to the Changliu Detention Center on April 25, he was covered
with cuts and bruises. To cover up the truth, the police officers wrote on the
arrest warrant that he was arrested on April 25.

Fu Hongru's brother, Fu Hongjian, 46, and sister, Fu Lisa, were also
arrested.

Mr. Fu Hongjian was also arrested by the Tuanjie police. At the police
station, he was so brutally tortured that he was unable to walk. He had to be
carried to Changliu Detention Center. Results of a physical examination showed
that all of his injuries were caused by the Tuanjie police. Just 12 hours after
arriving at the detention center, he was taken to the central hospital of
Tonghua City for medical treatment. After nine days in the hospital, he was
allowed to go home. But the cuts and bruises had not healed and his left eye was
so severely injured that it is permanently damaged.

Seven or eight police officers from Tuanjie Police Station moved Mr. Fu out
of the hospital, telling family members that he could be released on bail for
further medical treatment. When his family arrived to collect him, he was lying
on a stretcher, his left eye was covered by a cloth, and he was very pale. The
hospital staff said they could do nothing more to help him, but his family did
not want to take him home, as he looked so sick. The Tuanjie Police Station
chief lied and said, "All his injuries were incurred when Fu Hongjian tried to
beat up the police." But when the hospital requested a medical fee of four
thousand
yuan,
the police chief said, "The police station will pay the cost."

At present, Mr. Fu Hongru is still in Changliu Detention Center; the
whereabouts and condition of Mr. Fu Hongjian are unknown. Their sister, Ms. Fu
Lisa, was arrested on April 27, and has since been detained at Tonghua Detention
Center.

When the Tuanjie police arrested Fu Hongru, Fu Hongjian, and Fu Lisa, they
confiscated pictures of Fu Hongru and Fu Hongjian with Master in 1993 and 1994
and a bag containing Dafa books.

Yu Huilai, Chief of the Tuanjie Police Station

15 Practitioners and Family Members Arrested in Beijing

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 13 and 14, 2008, the National Security
Brigade from the Beijing Public Security Bureau arrested 15 Dafa practitioners
and members of their families.

At approximately 10:00 p.m. on May 14, 2008, three police officers broke into
Liu Baoguo's home in Haidian District, Beijing. The police ransacked his home
and then arrested him and tenant Jingjing (Dafa practitioner Chen Manxin's
niece). Their whereabouts is unknown. Liu Baoguo's home is in a mess because of
the police ransacking. Since Liu Baoguo is a well-known honest fellow, his
bitter experience has raised public anger.

After experiencing constant harassment, Liu Guifu, wife of Liu Baoguo, moved
abroad in forced exile. Liu Baoguo stopped practicing Falun Gong when the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999 because he
was afraid of what the CCP would do to him and his family. He suffered a relapse
in his health and has struggled with daily pain ever since.

Around 9:00 p.m. on May 13 or 14, 2008, several police officers from the
Third Policing Area, Shunyi Shengli Police Station, Beijing, broke into Liu
Guijin's home (Liu Guifu's older sister). The police ransacked her house, and
arrested Liu Guijin, who has been persecuted by police so much she has become
disabled. She is currently detained at Nihe Detention Center, Shunyi District. A
police officer said to her: "We will send you directly to a forced labor camp in
a few days." In other words, no formal charges would be laid and there would be
no trial to determine her guilt or innocence.

Ms. Chen Manxin of Yanqing District, Beijing, approximately 38, was arrested
on May 13. Her sister, Chen Manping, over 40, who lives in Badaling, Yanqing
District, was arrested on May 14. They are both being held at Yanqing Detention
Center. Their arrests left two elderly, paralyzed relatives at home with no one
to take care of them.

Ms. Tang Liangyou (the fourth sister) is about 55, and lives at Shuangyushu,
Haidian District, Beijing. It is said that she was also arrested on May 13 or
14. Her detention location is unknown.

Ms. Zhang Xiaoli, who lives in Haidian District, Beijing, is over 40. She
recently returned from Guangzhou after visiting relatives. She was arrested by
police after they followed her home.

Husband and wife Jia Shouxin and Xue Weiwei, employees of the Electrical
Engineering Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, were also arrested
by the Beijing National Security Brigade on May 13. Their current situation is
unknown.

The situations of the other Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested around
this same time are unknown.

Phone numbers:

Shuangyushu Police Station, Haidian District, Beijing: 86-10-62550406.

Third Policing Area, Shunyi Shengli Police Station, Beijing: 86-10-81481010.

Following Years of Persecution, His Wife Already in a Labor
Camp, Disabled Man in His 60's is Arrested (Mengyin County, Shandong Province)

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 9, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Li Zongping,
a disabled senior from Mengyin County, Shandong Province was arrested by police
officers from the local
610
Office and Jushan Police Station. Before this happened, his wife Wang Fafeng
had been sentenced to eighteen months in a labor camp. She was sent to the No.1
Women´s Labor Camp in Shandong Province on January 28, 2008.

Mr. Li Zongping, in his 60s, is from Zhoujiagouzi village in Mengyin Town.
His right arm is disabled, one leg is disabled and he is blind in one eye.
Basically he is unable to work. Before his wife started to practice Falun Gong,
she suffered asthma all year round. When her illness was in a serious state, she
had to lay in bed all the time and could not work either. Their economic
condition was very bad. However, her health improved a lot after she started to
practice Falun Gong.

During the nine years of persecution of Falun Gong, the couple has been
arrested several times. Their home was searched by police. Authorities have
extorted a total of 9260 Yuan from them in so-called "fines." There home was
used as a practice site for local practitioners before the persecution began.
Because of this, Jushan Township officials (now as a part of Mengyin Town) took
500 Yuan from them.

On February 20, 2000, Jiao Yuxiang, Jiang Liangjun and several other
Communist party members established a brainwashing center in Jushan. They
captured more than 30 practitioners including Li Zongping, Gong Weijing, Gong
Fangjian and confined them in the brainwashing center. The practitioners were
forced to watch videos that slander Falun Gong. They were also forced to make
statements that they would not practice Falun Gong anymore. At the same time,
they were forced to curse the founder of Falun Gong. Among all the
practitioners, Li Zongping, Gong Weijing, Gong Fangjian, Du Xiangzhong, Cao
Jinfu and Lu Chuanjiang were persecuted the most severely. They were watched by
guards every night. Any food sent by their family members was taken by the
guards.

Jiao Yuxiang and Jiang Liangjun asked some guards to get drunk and beat Li
Zongping, Gong Weijing, Gong Fangjian, Du Xiangzhong, Cao Jinfu and Lu
Chuanjiang. After being detained for nine days, the authorities of Yushan County
extorted 5000 Yuan from Li Zongping. He was forced to stay in the brainwashing
center for three months. He was also asked to pay 200 Yuan there.

On Febuary 20, 2000, Li Zongping's wife Wang Fafeng was arrested and taken to
Jushan Township Brainwashing Center. She was extorted of 3000 Yuan. She was
forced to stay in the brainwashing center for three months.

The couple are typical victims of this persecution. Even after being
released, because Li Zongping refuses to give up his belief in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, he is not allowed to live in peace. Jiao
Yuxiang and Jiang Liangjun often order their subordinates to harass them.

In January 2001, Li was arrested for appealing to the Beijing authorities.
Several days after that, he was released as he refused to reveal his name and
address. On his way back home, he was arrested again at the train station in
Jinan City. Police escorted him back to his hometown of Mengyin. There he was
detained at the local 610 office for more than three months and was asked to pay
260 Yuan for the detention there.

In the beginning of March 2001, the CCP authorities in Jushan Township held a
brainwashing session again to persecute more then thirty local practitioners,
including Gong Weijing, Gong Fangjian, Du Xiangzhong, Li Zongping, Cao Jinfu,
and Ju Chuanjiang. Jiao Yuxiang slandered Falun Dafa and forced the
practitioners to do the same. Anyone who did not obey was locked in a dark room.
Later Li Zongping was detained at Chapengling in Mengyin County for more than a
month.

In December 2001, the 610 Office people tried to capture Li Zongping and his
wife. The couple left home in order to escape capture. Someone else took care of
their teenage child.

In February 2004, the police arrested the couple at their home. Police
smashed their door, pots and pans and other property.

Before the national holiday in Oct 2005, Li Zongping was arrested by the
agents from the 610 Office. He was detained there for 22 days.

In Fall 2006, the 610 Office agents came to search their home and took a DVD
player and three audio players.

At 5 P.M. on December 20, 2007, Wang Fafeng and her fellow practitioner from
Tangjiazhuangzi Village, Jiuzhai County, Wang Zifeng, were reported to the
police when they were clarifying the facts to the villagers in Xiezhuang
Village. Policemen from Jiuzhai Township Police Station came to arrest them.

After Wang Fafeng was arrested, Jiuzhai Township Police Station transferred
her to Mengyin Town that night. Policemen from Mengyin Town searched her home.
They took away Dafa books, identity cards, certificates for disabled people,
welfare card and resident registration book. After the search was done, the
policemen also arrested Li Zongping and detained him at Mengyin County Detention
Center. Finally they set him free after one month. Wang Fafeng was detained at
Yinan County Detention Center. She was sentenced to eighteen months at the labor
camp after one month. Currently she is detained at the No.1 Women´s Labor Camp
in Shandong Province.

After his wife was taken to the labor camp, it became hard for Li Zongping to
have any peace. His life became more and more difficult. He has recently been
arrested again.

Departments and individuals who participated in this persecution

Mengyin County Police Department Head's Office, Zhang Yuanxue, 86-539-4818801,
86-13705397128(Cell), 86-539-4818901

Mengyin County 610 Office

Office head, Li Baoyuan, 86-539-4811681, 86-13953958936(Cell)

Deputy office head, Sun Shuai, 86-539-4811681, 86-13173095056(Cell)

Mengyin County Police Department 610 Office member, Wang Wei,
86-13563979797(Cell)

Mengyin County Supervision Division, Xing Xianqin, 86-539-4818919,
86-13805397876(Cell), 86-539-4818709

Jushan Police Station

Head Liu Yong, 86-539-4818991 (Home), 86-1395396019(Cell)

Ji Zhenhua, 86-539-4810510 (Home), 86-13853939168(Cell)

Ms. Zhong Fangqiong Tortured in National Security Division of
the Wuhou District Police Department in Chengdu City, Sichuan Provence

(Clearwisdom.net) Chengdu practitioner Ms. Zhong Fangqiong was
arrested on August 1, 2007. Her family was unable to locate her, later
discovering that she had first been "illegally detained" at the Jinhua
Brainwashing Center in Wuhou District and had then taken to the Chengdu City
Detention Center. In November 2007, Ms. Zhong was

illegally arrested under orders from the Wuhou

Procuratorate. About two weeks ago, her case was transferred to the Wuhou
District Court. In the National Security Division of the Wuhou District Police
Department, CCP members beat Ms. Zhong and then smeared some sort of hot
mustard-like chemical on her face that stung very badly. Every part of her skin
in contact with the chemical developed a rash and peeled.

More than ten practitioners were arrested by the Wuhou Procuratorate
including Ms. Mao Kun, Mr. Liu Bangcheng, Mr. Jiang Zonglin, Ms. Liu Jia, Mr.
Ding Zeyang, and also Ms. Zhou Huimin, who has been tortured to death. These
arrests were all ordered by Wang Pengfei (male), head of the National Security
Division of the Wuhou District Police Department.

Around 4 p.m. on August 1, 2007, Ms. Zhong Fangqiong was riding her electric
bike after leaving Ms. Fu's home. Within three minutes after she drove away, she
was forced off her bike by one car and then surrounded by five or six others.
She was then arrested. (It was later learned that those that arrested her had
been waiting in a tea shop below her apartment since 11 a.m. that day). They
then ransacked her home and arrested practitioners who were making flyers in her
home. In fact, the police had already been monitoring her contacts with other
practitioners.

On August 3, Wang Pengfei secretly tok Ms. Zhong Fangqiong, Ms. Liu Jia, Ms.
Xu Xiaorong, and Mr. Li to the second floor of Yuanyuan Hotel in Jitou Town.
After placing them in separate holding areas, they handcuffed Ms. Zhong to a
chair and directed a very bright bulb into her eyes. Police officers took shifts
torturing her in different ways over 24 hours and did not let her sleep.

Because Ms. Zhong did not cooperate with them, around August 13, her "case
manager," Yuan (first name unknown, a police officer in charge of persecuting
Falun Gong, First Division), had already tortured her for ten days. When he
didn't get any results, at around 2 a.m. that night he used police equipment to
stab Ms. Zhong's lower back and thighs in front of the security guard, each time
for about an hour. When she fainted, he would apply the stinging chemical on her
upper and lower eyelids, temples, inside her nose and even in her mouth. Every
inch of her skin touched by the chemical developed a rash, swelling, and peeling
skin.

After depriving Ms. Zhong of sleep for half a month, her feet became swollen
from sitting; the skin on the bottoms of her feet was peeling; her hands had
swollen and started to fester, especially in the wrist area because of the
handcuffs; she became humpbacked due to the handcuffs being affixed to the
ground; and her lower back was intolerably painful. Then, on August 17 from 1
p.m. to around 5 p.m., Pengfei Wang, police officer Yuan (first name unknown)
from the First Division, officer Zeng Tao (male) from another police station,
and a security guard beat her as they drank beer. They shouted, "If we beat you
to death, then we will fill out some random name on the cremation form and
cremate you."

They beat her with their fists and a spindle-shaped rod. Blood poured from
her lips, she saw stars, her head ached, and she felt like fainting. They still
ordered police officer Yuan to apply the stinging chemicals to Ms. Zhong's
already-disfigured face. A strong odor of ammonia overcame Ms. Zhong, and fluids
from her nose, mouth, and eyes all came pouring out. Ms. Zhong was in shock, her
entire face in severe, stinging pain, and she fainted immediately.

Persons and organizations responsible:

Wang Pengfei, Head of the National Security Division, Wuhou District, Chengdu
City Police Department

Yuan, Officer in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, Sub-department, First
Division,

Zeng Tao

First Division, Wuhou District, Chengdu City Police Department (National
Security): 86-28-86406628

Wuhou District, Chengdu City Police Department

Yang Chongyou (male), Head of the District Police Department 86-28-85091188
(Office), 86-28-87350825 (Home), 86-13808007318 (Cell)

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(Home), 86-13808173926 (Cell)

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86-28-85050099 (Office), 86-28-87320808 (Home), 86-13438367858 (Cell)

Police in Huai'an City Arrest a Head Nurse

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hu Yunqin, 45, is the
head nurse at the Chinese Medicine Hospital in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province.
On April 15, 2008, she was taken by police from her workplace and detained for
15 days. During her detention, she was subjected to physical and mental torture.

After her release, Ms. Hu was still in a lot of pain, according to reports.
Her left eye still has blurred vision. She had been beaten, her eyes left
bleeding. She sees black dots in front of eyes. The wound around her wrist has
not healed. More details follow:

Ms. Hu Yunqin is very dedicated to her work and never complains. Around 9am
on April 15, 2008, Qinghe District "610" office policemen Zhang Shulin,Wang
Jianhuai, and two other policemen came look for Hu with the help of Wei Yujie,
the head of the security department at the hospital. They wanted to search Hu's
home. Ms. Hu refused to cooperate with them and continued to work.

The police surrounded Hu and took away her keys, cell phone, ID card, a few
pens, and other items related to her work. The officers handcuffed Ms. Hu and
dragged her toward the police vehicle. The handcuffs cut into her wrist and left
a blood stain on her clothing.

Once Ms. Hu was forced into the police vehicle, policeman Wang Jianhuai
started beating her, grabbing her hair and slapping her face. Several police
took Ms. Hu's key and went to her home led by Wei Yujie. They took away a
computer, a MP3 player, two U-discs, a picture of Teacher, Dafa books, CDs, and
personal items.

Ms. Hu Yunqin was detained at Huai'an Detention Center. Because she refused
to cooperate with police at the detention center, a policeman named Wang beat
her so badly that her left eye had hyperemia, and she lost control of her
bladder. The next day, she still had blood in her mouth and nose, and her face
was covered with bruises.

During her detainment, policemen Wang Jianhuai and Zhang Shuling went to the
detention center several times to torture her. Ms. Hu's family was not allowed
to visit her.

After being detained for 15 days, Ms. Hu Yunqin was released on April 30.
None of the articles the police had taken from her was returned.

I Saw Shenyang Police Openly and Illegally Arrest Three
Practitioners

(Clearwisdom.net) At around 9 a.m., May 23, 2008, I passed by the
Street Neighborhood Council of Fengyutan in Shenhe District, Shenyang City,
Liaoning Province. I witnessed six policemen arrest three practitioners.

There were many people surrounding the neighborhood council. I approached
them to see what was happening. I saw a young man pushed into a police car and a
policeman guarding him. A young policeman grabbed an old lady by the arms and
dragged her around. The old lady pointed to the young man in the police car and
said, "Let my son get out of the car. My son does not practice Falun Gong. Why
did you arrest him?" The officer said, "As long as your son is with you, we will
arrest him."

After a couple of minutes, another police car came by and stopped near the
old lady. The policeman pushed her roughly towards the car. She resisted getting
into the car and asked, "Why are you arresting me?" He answered, "To ask you
some questions." She said, "What kind of law did I break? I practice Falun Gong,
but I did not do anything wrong. How can you arrest me? Whatever you want to
ask, just ask me here, in front of all these people." The policeman said, "I
will ask you after you get into the car." The old lady said, "There is no need
for me to get into the car, just ask me here."

The old lady turned around and saw two policemen pushing another old lady,
her relative, into a police car. "Why are you arresting my relative? Leave her
alone!" The policemen said, "She was with you. Whoever is with you, we will
arrest them as well." They lifted her relative into the car. The old lady asked,
"You are arresting people so casually. Do you have ID?" One policeman showed her
his police ID and said, "We are from the Shenhe Branch of the Police
Department."

The police pushed and dragged the old lady into the police car and took her
away. We don't know where they went.

After the police left, I heard people around me saying, "That practitioner
lives nearby. She had just left her home with her son to do some business, then
she got arrested. These policemen are crazy! They not only

illegally arrest Falun Gong practitioners, but also arrest anyone with
practitioners!"

Others said, "The Chinese Communist Party only exercises its power over
common people. This kind of suppression will definitely make many people
indignant."

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

My Understanding of Passing the Test of Sickness Karma

(Clearwisdom.net) I've experienced sickness karma again. While
enduring the suffering this time, I thought, "But recently I have felt that I
have been diligent in my cultivation." Actually I was not strict with myself and
was not meeting the requirements of a Dafa practitioner. That night when I fell
asleep, a loud voice woke me up. I clearly remembered the scene in the dream. In
the dream I was very busy, just like I was in ordinary society. I had been busy
all day and my mind was not on the
Fa.
I was allowing myself to be affected by everything in ordinary society and was
horrified when I realized this. And then it seemed that Master asked the old
forces and rotten demons to stop persecuting me. However, they shouted, "Look at
her, shouldn't we persecute her?" Hearing this, I woke up.

I came to understand that Master had arranged for me to hear this, to
enlighten me so that I could rectify myself.

Although I intended to be diligent, I was not always diligent. Before I
obtained the Fa, I was on the verge of death health-wise. Then I started
practicing Falun Gong. After I became a practitioner in 1996, I was in the state
of perceptually understanding the Fa. Sometimes I was diligent and sometimes I
would slack off. Each time when I read other practitioners' experience sharing,
I felt I should be diligent. However, after interacting with ordinary society, I
could not hold myself to a practitioner's standard, and I would act just like an
everyday person. Sometimes I repented for not cherishing the Fa and not being
diligent. I was often affected by false appearances and did not genuinely
cultivate. In addition, I did not treat cultivation seriously and instead
cultivated on the basis of living a good life in ordinary society. In regards to
Fa study, Master told us the importance of Fa study again and again. Every day I
studied the Fa, but I treated Fa study as just accomplishing a task. Sometimes I
was drowsy as I read, and sometimes a lot of impure thoughts would emerge.
Master told us, "When your mind isn't at peace, studying the Fa is not
effective. You should study it with a peaceful mind." ("A Heavy Blow" in
Essentials for Further Advancement)

During the past few years, although I had been studying the Fa, my mind was
not on the Fa and I did not solidly cultivate myself. Therefore, when I met with
the sickness karma, I did not understand it with righteous thoughts. I simply
thought that I had not cultivated well and still had some karma to eliminate. As
a result of this thought, the sickness karma became more severe. My child said,
"You've this issue several times." He reminded me, "Master told us that veteran
practitioners will no longer have sickness karma."

I studied very few lectures in which Master addressed this issue after July
20, 1999. I always looked outward instead of inward and felt that I didn't have
enough time and that I was too busy working. But as soon as I would experience
sickness karma again, I would make time to be diligent; the rest of the time, I
relaxed my righteous thoughts. A few days ago I dreamed that when I bought rice,
there was a hole in the plastic bag and rice fell out, so I covered up the hole
and continued walking. I even tried to conceal the hole from others. I came to
understand that Master was enlightening me to this: that I do not cultivate
steadfastly and I only cultivate to amend the loopholes. My basis of cultivation
is not righteous. As a being, I should assimilate to the Fa diligently;
otherwise, even though I appear to cultivate perfectly on the surface, my

xinxing does not meet the requirement of the Fa, so I am not
genuinely cultivating, which will be harmful to others, including myself. I hope
that through my experience sharing, other practitioners who are in the same
state can rectify themselves immediately. I hope they can learn a lesson from me
and treat cultivation seriously and not let Master down.

Previously I did not intend to send this article to the Minghui/Clearwisdom
website. I felt so embarrassed and was afraid that nobody else cultivated as
poorly as me. After reading the articles that were posted on the "Minghui
Weekly," I learned that when fellow practitioners were persecuted by
sickness karma, practitioners around them helped them compassionately. I should
look within. At the same time, I hope my experience will be helpful to other
practitioners.

Please kindly point out anything improper.

I Found My Fundamental Attachment

(Clearwisdom.net) I have always considered myself very diligent in my
cultivation. Aside from the

three things Teacher asked us to do, I was extremely reluctant to do
ordinary work. In addition, whenever I did not finish the goal I set for myself
every day, I would feel bad. I was nervous and did not dare to stop. I felt as
if I would lose something if I stopped. But I did not dig deep to find the
reason. Rather, I thought that this could force me to be diligent. A fellow
practitioner once reminded me that I was too attached to my personal cultivation
and tried to hide my attachment. I did not pay attention and thought that "there
was nothing wrong with being diligent."

Several days later, I shared experiences with this fellow practitioner again.
He mentioned that people who will be left behind will have to bear lots of
hardship before they can enter the new universe. I looked into his eyes and
said, "I must cultivate to reach consummation. I will never be left behind." I
was frightened by my strong attachment. He said immediately, "You must have an
attachment. It is the fundamental attachment that made you start cultivation."

I recalled my cultivation path. Before I started practicing Falun Gong, I
suffered hardships in ordinary society and often felt that life was hard. With
the mindset of getting away from bitter ordinary society, I started practicing
Falun Gong. In 2000, after I unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square, I was taken
to a detention center for several days and was tortured. When I saw the torture
other practitioners had suffered, my heart of not being willing to bear hardship
surfaced. I hid and studied the
Fa
at home after that. Because I did not keep up with the pace of Fa-rectification,
I quickly dropped down to the level of ordinary people.

In 2006, I was shocked by the death of my mother-in-law. Witnessing her
suffer miserably for three months, I was moved. I started to think, "Although I
need to bear hardship if I practice Dafa, I can ultimately escape from the pain.
To remain human, however, I must bear hardship endlessly because of accumulated
karma." I then made up my mind to become resolute in my conviction to practice
Falun Dafa. and to never be shaken. In the past two years, I was indeed very
diligent. Fearing that it would interfere with my doing the three things, I was
unwilling or dared not to work in ordinary society. Now I realize that this is
not true cultivation. It is instead pursuing my own personal interests from
within Dafa. In other words, I still have not given up my fundamental attachment
to this day.

I am ashamed of myself, as fellow practitioners are whole-heartedly saving
sentient beings in the Fa-rectification period. Many practitioners completely
let go of their own selves and make Fa validation and saving sentient beings
their priority. But I am still here with my filthy selfish thought.

Letting go of my fundamental attachment is a breakthrough on my cultivation
path. I will eliminate my selfishness and truly melt into Dafa and become a Dafa
particle. With a pure heart, I will do the three things well and live up to
Teacher's compassionate salvation.

Reflections on Attending the Parade in Manhattan

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 25, 2008, over 2000 practitioners attended a
grand parade through the streets of New York in Manhattan Chinatown. I felt a
true war between righteous and evil during the parade. The evil was wiped out by
a soul-shaking power so strong that I couldn't calm down long time after I went
home.

The Divine Land Marching Band led the parade, followed by sections dedicated
to "the beauty of Falun Dafa," the "truth of the persecution," and "quitting the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)." It was the first time I heard the Divine Land
Marching Band play so close to me. Magnificent energy radiated outward, imbued
with compassion and inviolable dignity. I was thrilled and felt there was a
stream of energy coming from inside of me. This made me think that Dafa offers
salvation with compassion, which coexists with dignity. When a being is offered
choices but refuses to do the right thing, the only choice that is left will be
elimination.

The parade set off at noon, following a couple of hours of getting ready, and
sending righteous thoughts. The procession stretched out along on the narrow
streets in Chinatown. When I used to parade in California, most people simply
clapped when they knew that it was a Falun Gong parade. This time was different.
Passersby read every word on the banners carefully, and some even out loud. A
group instigated by the CCP to make trouble during the parade hid under the
shadow of an overpass and yelled at us. I figured some of them had been involved
in beating practitioners at the "quitting the CCP booth" in front of the
Flushing Library. The banner I held said "the CCP is being eradicated." People
reacted differently in front of me, the CCP supporters cursed me and those who
knew the truth gave loud applause and cheered.

Before we got to the underpass where the troublemakers were gathered, my
heartbeat rose and my legs felt fatigue. I didn't know why. Suddenly a
practitioner next to me said, "quickly send righteous thoughts." I knew Teacher
was giving me a hint and I did so immediately. The second I said "mie
(eliminate)," I saw a golden screen as wide as the street come out and in no
time swept through every corner in front of me and cleaned all the evil. I was
suddenly energized. I realized no matter how a person is on the surface, Teacher
wants to save him/her. Buddha's grace is immense. Teacher gave the CCP's
followers another chance by cleaning the evil behind them in another dimension.
As long as the last moment hasn't yet arrived, they still have a chance to be
saved and see the grace of Dafa. Practitioners can do very little on the
surface, Teacher is the one who can truly save people, and he will not give up
on anyone. We need to keep our righteous thoughts and one thing in mind, "saving
people." Teacher saved the CCP's followers by cleaning their demonic side, to
lay a foundation for their future salvation.

When I walked under the overpass, I felt as though I was infinitely big, as
if nothing exists anymore besides one thought, "save people quickly." As we
walked by the overpass, I heard applause and cheering from a group of passersby
in front of us. One of them shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" I almost cried. I knew
that Teacher was encouraging us. Teacher omits nothing and thinks about us in
every detail. How lucky we are to be practitioners, there is no reason for not
doing the three things well.

My fellow practitioners, let us work together and walk every step well during
the Fa rectification. No matter whether we receive cheers or curses on the way,
we have Teacher and the Fa. We should not be conceited or discouraged; we should
walk to the end openly and nobly.

Sharing from a Practitioner Who First Learned Falun Gong in a
Detention Center

(Clearwisdom.net) I first learned Falun Gong in a detention center in
April 2001, during a time when the persecution against the practice was very
rampant. I have been practicing and studying the
Fa
consistently for just over two years. Although I haven't done well, I would like
to write down my experience to share with fellow practitioners and also to
encourage myself.

I relied on studying the Fa to maintain righteous thoughts. On the Minghui
website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom), I read a lot of sharing articles
written by fellow practitioners and learned about the

three things we should do. To

clarify the facts, I made brochures and weekly publications from information
on the Internet and distributed them myself. I found that the process of making
brochures was also a process of cultivation. I was able to eliminate a lot of
attachments, such as the attachment to doing projects.

In residential areas with security guards, it was relatively easy to
distribute truth-clarification materials, because for each building, there was a
mailbox for each unit at the bottom of the stairs. However, many advertisements
were also distributed there, and people often threw them away immediately. In
order to help those with predestined relationships learn the facts, I put the
materials in envelopes and sometimes printed pictures on the envelopes as well.
I complemented the brochures with the weekly publications. When I made a
brochure, I would ask myself if I would want to read it myself if I were an
ordinary person and what types of materials would interest me. I started with
where I lived. The first time I did it, I prepared the material the night before
and waited until the evening. Because my husband returned home late, I told my
child that I was going to be out for a little and left. But even before I
reached the bottom of the stairs, my legs started shaking and my heart was
pounding. I reminded myself that what I was doing was the most righteous thing
in the universe and that I was looked after by Master. Still, I was afraid of
people seeing me, as though I was a thief. Actually, nobody saw me. It was only
that I lacked righteous thoughts. Although Master was protecting me, I was still
scared. Distributing the materials didn't take very long, and I didn't have any
trouble at all. I was delighted. I only hoped that people with predestined
relationships could learn the truth and be awakened.

Gradually my fears went away. I thought it was better to hand out information
during the day. I started with my own residential area and expanded my coverage.
Once I was handing out materials in a residential area with a great many
security guards. When I saw that there was no security guard near me, I
distributed a few more brochures in one particular building. As I turned around
to walk towards another building, a security guard stopped me and asked what I
was doing. At first, I didn't remember to use righteous thoughts to eliminate
the evil elements behind the security guard and was a bit flustered. I told him
that I had an appointment to sell insurance. The security guard asked which unit
I was visiting. I didn't know what to say. He asked me to open my bag. I said he
didn't have the right to check my bag. We debated for a while and I didn't know
how to escape. Suddenly, my compassion emerged. I thought, "I can't just let him
be destroyed like this." As my thoughts changed, he signaled for me to leave and
escorted me to the gate. My only regret was that I failed to clarify the facts
to him. When I returned home, I looked inward and saw that I had attachments to
fear and to doing projects. Actually, human beings are very weak. If they
weren't controlled by other elements, they couldn't do anything to cultivators.
If my first thought had been to eliminate the evil factors that controlled him
and then I clarified the facts, wouldn't that have been great! Aren't we here to
save people? Otherwise, why are we handing out truth-clarification materials?
All of this is about saving people. I didn't do well because I hadn't studied
the Fa well, and my one thought led to my failure to clarify the truth to him.

Some fellow practitioners were sending forth righteous thoughts close to
different targets. I followed a route near a prison to send forth righteous
thoughts. Along the way, there was a lot of interference, and I felt very
afraid. I learned from other practitioners' experiences and repeated to myself,
"Falun Dafa is great, 'Truth-Compassion-Tolerance' is great." Shortly after, my
hands stopped sweating profusely, and my heart stopped pounding. The bus
transfer also went very smoothly. After one hour of sending righteous thoughts,
I returned home safely.

I also write facts about the persecution on
yuan
bills and use them to clarify the truth. The first time I did it, I walked
around three times in the supermarket to observe how vegetable vendors collect
money. I saw that they didn't check the bills at all, so I spent the marked
bills in a hurry. Later I realized that if people didn't look at the bills, my
efforts would be in vain. I began sending forth righteous thoughts when I wrote
on the bills to help those with predestined relationships learn the facts. As my
righteous thoughts became stronger, my heart also calmed down. Now, everyday, if
I don't spent some bills with persecution facts on them, I feel that I have
failed to complete an important task.

I once dreamed that I followed Master to the human world, but I did not do
well to meet Master's requirements. In the last few months, I have lagged
behind. Even when I realized this, I had a hard time correcting myself. From now
on, I will continue to improve through Fa study and continue to be diligent. I
will do even better in the three things Master asked of us.

Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.

Thank you, Master. Thank you, fellow practitioners.

To Be a Dafa Disciple and Truly Cultivate Myself

(Clearwisdom.net) You will find the true meaning of life as long as
you have the predestined relationship to obtain the
Fa.
Whenever you truly cultivate Dafa, you will understand the hardship of
cultivation and the bitterness and happiness involved in improving your
character and letting go of your attachments. I would like to share some of my
cultivation experiences in the hope of inspiring people to learn the truth and
obtain the Fa. I also hope that it may provide some help to fellow
practitioners.

Return to Dafa

I obtained the Fa in 1996 and almost immediately I could feel the Law Wheel
spinning in my body. The constipation and migraine headaches that I had suffered
from for years disappeared, and both my mind and body were purified. But my
understanding of Dafa remained at the level of perceptual knowledge and I didn't
cultivate myself truly and diligently.

During July 1999, the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spread lies about
Master and Dafa, and the cruel persecution of Dafa disciples began. I stopped
cultivating for three years. I walked along the path arranged by the old forces
because of my attachment to laziness and a longing for comfort. I didn't study
the Fa diligently, and I behaved just like an ordinary person. I accompanied the
guests of our company to go out eating and drinking, and I played cards during
the day and danced at night. On the surface, it appeared that I was having fun,
but I felt very hollow inside. The pressure of work, family disharmony, and
getting ill tired me out both mentally and physically.

In July 2002, when my husband announced that he wanted to divorce me, I
suddenly got a fever as high as 40 C. I stayed in the hospital for two weeks,
but the fever persisted. At that time I just didn't want to live anymore. Then I
thought about the injustice of the persecution against Dafa disciples and how
Master and Dafa were being slandered. Even I, no longer diligent, was always
under the surveillance of the police station, the government, and my company,
and I couldn't do as I pleased. At the moment I had one thought: "My death would
be of no value. I must validate the Fa and live for Dafa."

I took down the case from attic and held

Zhuan Falun in my hands. At that time, I hadn't read the book for
three years. When I re-read the First Lecture, I felt a Falun rotating from my
left arm to my whole body. Suddenly, I felt relaxed and energetic.

At that moment, I held the picture of Master, and, kneeling down before His
picture, I swore, "Master, I give you my life and will walk the path you
arranged. I will cultivate diligently and doubly compensate for the losses I
brought to Dafa and Master. I will cultivate in Dafa until the end."

The Miracle of Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts

When I returned to cultivation practice, the interference I experienced was
very strong at the beginning. When I learned that we could send forth righteous
thoughts to eliminate them, I sat on my bed and sent forth righteous thoughts to
the police station, the government, and
610
Office to clear out their records containing my information and pictures. At
first when I held my hand up to send forth righteous thoughts, my hand would
involuntarily wobble and I knew that this was the fight between justice and
evil. I kept on doing it until I had cleared them out. In the end I heard people
from the government saying that they didn't have any records of me and nobody
watched me any longer.

In August 2002, when my husband saw that I had resumed my cultivation
practice again, he was both happy and worried. He was happy because I no longer
quarreled with him, I treated him very well, and I looked healthy. But he was
worried that if my company knew that I had started to cultivate again, they
might fire me.

When I saw his mood, I just had the thought that, "I must save you." One
night, I used my finger to write the character "eliminate" on his back while he
was asleep. I sent out righteous thoughts towards him all night. The next day,
he read the

truth clarification materials and even Zhuan Falun.

When my daughter saw this, she also entered cultivation practice. Three of us
in our family cultivated Dafa together under the compassionate arrangement of
Master.

"But in spite of this, Master only looks at the fact that they came down to
obtain the Fa initially. So regardless of who it is, as long as he develops the
thought of wanting to cultivate today and enters the practice, Master will offer
him salvation." ("Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia")

Distributing Truth Clarification Materials

After Master's new article "Hurry Up And Tell Them" was published, I worked
during the daytime and went out to distribute truth clarification materials to
different villages at night. Soon, we began to run out of truth clarification
materials, so we bought some red paper and made signs saying, "Falun Dafa Is
Good," "Falun Dafa Is the Righteous Fa," "Restore Our Master's Good Name" "Falun
Gong Is Wronged." We posted these on the telegraph poles in different villages.
The first time I posted the signs, I walked for more than eight hours in my high
heeled shoes and there were big blisters on my toes. I used a needle to open and
drain them. The next morning when I got up, there were no marks on my feet at
all. I felt as light as gossamer and it was wonderful.

In the summer of 2003, I made more than one thousand copies of Dafa truth
materials and distributed several hundred on the first day. The next day I
wanted to distribute the remaining ones. (I used to distribute the materials on
a rotation of five or seven days so that the CCP could not figure out my
distribution schedule.)

Some practitioners heard about my ideas, and they went with me to very far
away villages to distribute the materials. Five of us, all women, took the bus
to a village at 8:00 p.m. The moon was full and bright, lighting up the village.
The farmers there were enjoying the cool night air, and we found a place to send
righteous thoughts to make all of them go back home to sleep. Because there were
so many of us and we might be easily discovered, we divided ourselves into two
groups to distribute the materials. But fellow practitioners were not familiar
with the surroundings and didn't cooperate with each other well. One
practitioner kept worrying that she forgot to bring her house key with her and
she might not be able to get in if she returned late, so she was distracted by
this human attachment. When we got to the second village, the CCP cadres there
found us out. When we were distributing materials at the third village, the
police came by in a police wagon and found us.

As I saw a police wagon driving toward me I thought, "They all know me, but I
need to go to work tomorrow and I can't let them find me." When the other four
practitioners saw the police wagon, they ran toward me. The police didn't see me
and just ran after the other four. The four practitioners ran straight ahead,
far away from me. I could hear the sounds of the the police arresting them. I
felt very pained. I thought, "How can I rescue my fellow practitioners?" But I
drew a blank. A police officer was standing opposite of me, just a meter away,
and he couldn't see me even in such bright moonlight--I knew that Master was
protecting me.

The police tried to force the practitioners to tell them where "the person in
white clothes" was (they were told that one of us dressed in white). My fellow
practitioners knew that I had escaped by the skin of my teeth and were very
happy. I stood there in stillness, sending righteous thoughts the whole time.
Then I suddenly heard somebody say, "It is very dangerous here. Run away fast!"
But I had gone there together with my fellow practitioners, and I thought that
we should go back together. I wanted to ask practitioners at home to send
righteous thoughts to rescue the four practitioners being held by the police. I
entered a restroom and called them on my cell phone, but there was no signal for
my cell phone. I left and connected with my family and other practitioners at
home. I told them, "We had an incident. I escaped but the other four
practitioners need to be rescued."

On my way back, I thought that it was all my fault and that I had made fellow
practitioners suffer. I had taken them out, and so I was responsible, therefore
I must suffer, too. (Actually, if I did suffer for them, wouldn't I be
acknowledging the persecution of the old forces? I was not clear about this
principle of the Fa.) I lost my way as I walked back. I then saw a
one-meter-wide ditch in front of me. I tried to jump over it but fell in.
Usually I could easily jump over such a ditch. There was a little water on top
but full of slime at the bottom. I couldn't stand up. I thought then, "Even if I
drown, I must protect the materials. I still need to save people." Suddenly
there was a kind of power sending me upward. When I got out of the ditch, I
found that the materials were not wet at all. I thought, "Thank you, Master!"
However, with all the mud on my shoes, I was sliding instead of walking. I took
off my shoes and walked along the dirt road in my bare feet. There were some
bricks and glass on the ground. I didn't notice them and stepped on them,
gashing my foot. I didn't pay much attention to it and went on walking toward
home. I walked for more than two hours and came to another village. I
distributed materials until all of them were gone.

On my way back, I saw three more police wagons driving around searching for
me. I arrived home in my bare feet at 2:00 a.m. and found my husband sitting on
the floor sending forth righteous thoughts. I couldn't fall sleep and sent out
righteous thoughts until quarter past seven in the morning. I had just gotten
up, when the young woman practitioner that had been with us the night before
came to my home. She told me what had happened to her. She said that when she
ran into a farmer's vegetable field, the police caught her. At first, they
wanted to put her into the wagon. An old practitioner told her not to move. She
thought herself, "As solid as diamond." Three policemen couldn't lift her and
they called another two policemen to come and help. But they still couldn't
carry her away. At last they had no other choice but to let the young
practitioner go home. They took the three older practitioners to the police
station.

In the morning when I went to work, I kept on sending forth righteous
thoughts. I was focused on the thought that the other practitioners would return
home before noon. At noon, when I got off work and went home, the three
practitioners really had come back. They told me that when they arrived at the
police station, the chief (who strangely became insane the next day) and the
other officers beat them. The practitioners stretched out their arms to show me,
and I saw that their arms were all black and blue. They told me that then they
kept on sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth to the police. The
chief saw that nothing was to be gained and released them at 10 the next
morning.

Threatened with Being Sent to a Brainwashing Center Twice

Right after the 2003 New Year, I went to a village secretary's home with two
town cadres to arrange some work. I saw that the deputy head of the village was
painting over phrases such as "Falun Dafa Is Good,"
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Is Good" on a telegraph pole with a bucket
of oil paint. Some practitioner had risked his life to write those messages on
New Year's eve. I said quickly, "Don't paint those over! They are for saving
people! You will receive retribution for doing that."

Then I clarified the truth to all of them and told them the truth about the
staged "Tiananmen Self-immolation incident." However, when I got home, I didn't
send righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil manipulating them. When one of the
cadres I spoke to went home, he met the head of the 610 Office and told him
about my truth clarification that day.

The head of the village's 610 Office told my company leader that I had
clarified the truth in the village and ordered my company head to deal with me
thoroughly. My company head went at once to my husband's company and threatened
to stop his salary. She also told my husband that she would come to our home.

That night my company leader came to my home. She tried to persuade me to
give up my cultivation by using the stick and the carrot method and also asked
me to hand over all my Dafa books and relative materials. She asked me which one
I chose: keeping my job or practicing Falun Gong. I said, "I will not give up my
cultivation and Falun Gong is being persecuted. There are only these few copies
of truth clarification materials. Please take them home to read." Then I handed
her the materials. She stood up and said as she walked out, "You even want to
persuade me! I will give you one week to reconsider. You cannot go to work until
you promise not to practice Falun Gong." I talked with my husband and we sat
down to send forth righteous thoughts to deny all the old forces' persecution.

The next morning I went to work as usual. I went to the leader's office and
said, "I don't need a week to consider. I want to answer you today. The words
'Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance' are in my every cell and it is
impossible for me to give my practice up." She turned quite green and said,
"Let's go to the head of 610 Office and tell him clearly. You will be sent to
brainwashing center." I said, "It is not wrong to be a good person." I thought,
"I am in no fear. I walk on the right path and nobody can harm me as Master will
protect me."

We went to the government office and they were having a meeting. I started to
send righteous thoughts to clear out all the evil factors that persecute Dafa
and Dafa disciples in the government officials and eliminate all of the evil
factors immediately. I said to Master from bottom of my heart, "Master! Your
disciple will only walk the road you arranged. Whether I do well or not on my
path of cultivation, I will walk it to the end." Half an hour later, my company
leader asked me to go to 610 Office with her. As soon as she saw the head of 610
Office, she pointed to me and said, "Send her to brainwashing center to punish
her." I smiled and said, "I have done nothing wrong. Why do you want to
brainwash me?" The head of 610 Office said, "Somebody reported that you told the
truth about Falun Gong to town cadres and they also said that you clarified the
truth at another village in 2002 and broadcast Falun Gong music at a
broadcasting studio. People from several villages heard it. You are a state
cadre and now Falun Gong is forbidden by the government. You should be a little
bit cautious. This time it is OK, but I hope next time I will not hear such
kinds of things about you. Go back to work. I will feel sorry for you if you
lose your job." Thus I returned to my company to continue my truth clarification
efforts under Master's compassionate care and protection.

In October 2003, officials from 610 Office came to our town to find young
practitioners to send them to be brainwashed. They went to a couple's family and
told them to be ready to go to a brainwashing center. They also claimed that I,
too, would be taken there. The couple asked another practitioner to tell me
quickly and said that they would stay away from home to avoid the persecution.
They suggested that I also do this.

When my husband told me about it, he was scared and worried. I was surprised
to hear this, but I quickly calmed down and said, "Don't be afraid. Master said,
'Our Law Wheel protects you if you're a true cultivator. My roots are all deeply
planted in the universe, and if someone could affect you, he could affect me,
and to put it directly, he'd be able to affect the universe.' (Zhuan Falun,
2003 translation version) I refuse to go anywhere. We should send righteous
thoughts tonight and make them fail to have the brainwashing session."

The next morning other practitioner tried to persuade me to stay away from
trouble. I said firmly, "Thanks for your concern. I will not live away from home
and that is not the way I will deal with this. I will face it confidently. I am
not afraid of anything now and I will see who will win. As for the older
practitioners going out of their way to avoid trouble, I think that it is better
not to. There are still two days for them to have the brainwashing session. The
main thing we should do now is to study the Fa and send righteous thoughts
frequently, making them unable to do it."

After the practitioner returned, he shared my thoughts with the older
practitioners and talked to them. The couple decided to live away from home. All
the other practitioners calmed down. In the end, they didn't hold the
brainwashing session after all.

That's it. I went through the tribulation twice about the brainwashing
sessions. It is true, "Cultivation is up to you, gong is up to the master." (Zhuan
Falun) Without Master's compassionate care and protection, we might stumble
at every step! How vast and mighty Master's benevolence is!

People's Hearts Determine Their Futures

Falun Dafa Saved My Grandpa

(Clearwisdom.net) My grandpa, who has had high blood pressure for the
past 50 years, was diagnosed with another major problem - tumors in several
sections of an artery in his abdomen, the biggest being 50mm x 30mm. They are
like time bombs. Hearing this, my 78-year-old grandpa just collapsed mentally.
He did not want to eat or move around - not even to go to the washroom.

To prevent the "bombs" from exploding, he went through surgery. He was given
general anesthesia and when he woke up 12 hours later, he could not think
clearly and half of his body was numb. He had a stroke on the right side of his
brain, for which there were no effective cure. He was in grave danger and could
have died at any time.

My grandma practices Falun Gong. She whispered "Falun Dafa is good" and
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" to him all the time. Two weeks
later, Grandpa was fine and could walk on his own. Everything seemed fine and he
was getting ready to go home for the Lunar New Year.

However, walking down the hospital hallway, he had an excruciating pain in
his right leg. When he got back to his ward, he found his right leg pale and
cold. The doctor found that the artery in his right leg did not work any more.
They would have to amputate his leg. So his family agreed to the operation to
save his leg. On the day before New Year's eve, Grandpa had five hours of
surgery while his family waited outside. On the following day, he had another
stroke in his brain. He was sent to the intensive care on New Year's eve. Family
members took turns sitting on the bench outside his ward and spent an
unforgettable Chinese New Year.

On the seventh day of the New Year, he got better and was moved out of
intensive care. But then he started to pass blood. The doctors used all
medicines available to stop the blood from coming, but it did not help. For the
third time, we received notice from the hospital that Grandpa was dying.

Grandma said to all those attending, "At this point, only Falun Dafa can save
Grandpa's life. Everyone please say silently "Falun Dafa is good.
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Grandpa followed along. On the
third day, he held my grandma's hand and said, "I saw Teacher. Teacher came to
save me. I have suffered so much and I am safe now because Teacher came to
protect me."He also said to me and my mom, "When I go home, I will burn incense
to worship Buddha. Dafa is magnificent." Many people heard him then. Grandpa got
better day by day ever since.

On the tenth of March, Grandpa came home and is recovering well. He can look
after himself now. Although I have not started practicing Falun Gong, I am
trying to help out any way I can for Falun Dafa.

Several Cases of Karmic Retribution

(Clearwisdom.net)

Editors' note: In both Western and Chinese cultures, the principle of
karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own
actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the
characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The
universe will reward acts that are in harmony with this principle, while doing
things such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic
retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while
evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a
compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing.
While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the
universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions,
and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape
retribution.

Cao Youzhen, a policewoman from Wuhan Police Sub-bureau, died of cancer

Cao Youzhen was a police officer from Yijiadun Police Station, Qiaokou Police
Bureau, Wuhan City. After the Chinese government began to persecute Falun Gong
on July 20, 1999, Cao Youzhen participated in the persecution many times. During
the first half of 2000, she went to Etouwan Brainwashing Center in Qiaokou to
use all her strength to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. In order to earn
more money, anytime someone was needed to cover the night shift in the
brainwashing center, she always volunteered. Later on she was transferred to
Zhipingshe District, Chenjiadun, Qiaokou District. She confiscated
practitioners' books, tapes, and so on, but she never provided a list of
confiscated items or showed a search warrant. Practitioners

clarified the truth to her, but she did not listen. In September 2007,
during the the 17^th CCP Central Committee meeting, Cao Youzhen
illegally searched and tried to take practitioner Xiao Yingxue into custody.
Because the practitioner resisted and the neighbors had righteous thoughts, her
attempt failed.

After that, Cao Youzhen developed cancer. Less than half a year later, she
met died on April 3, 2008. She was just over forty years old.

Villagers hostile toward Dafa from Xincheng, Han Dian Town, Shuangcheng
City, Heilongjiang Province, experience karmic retribution

Qiao Zhiguo, a villager from Xincheng Village, followed Jiang's regime to
persecute Falun Gong ever since July 20, 1999. In order to make more money, he
monitored what practitioners did every day, abused them, took down truth
clarification banners, scratched out truth-clarification messages, and tore up
flyers. He also threw copies of the

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party into a toilet. Dafa
disciples told him the truth many times, but he did not listen to them. In the
spring of 2005, he had cerebral thrombus and was confined to a hospital. He
spent several thousand

yuan but did not recover.

A villager, Sun Chengzhi, always acted as a CCP accomplice, tore up Dafa
flyers, and scolded Dafa disciples on the street many times. In the winter of
2001, he and his sons chased down several practitioners and beat and abused
them. In a short time, one of his two sons was arrested and the other one was
sentenced. They are both still detained. At the beginning of 2008, he saw
several practitioners and said to them, "In 2008 during the Olympic Games, the
CCP will persecute you to death." Only a few days later, he died suddenly.

Brothers Wang Yongguo and Wang Yongbang suffered much persecution during
the Great Cultivation Revolution because their family were landlords. They
unfortunately forgot the pain of their own experience. When the CCP began its
persecution of Falun Gong, both of them followed along. Wang Yongbang took
down banners, tore up flyers, and abused Dafa disciples. Later on, he had a
serious disease, which cost him almost 10,000 "yuan". Wang Yongguo did not
listen when practitioners went to his home to clarify the truth to him many
times. Each time, he threw them out and heaped abuse on them. Not long after,
Wang Yongguo drove a horse-drawn vehicle to handle matters in town. The
vehicle turned over in a ditch and he broke his leg. After this, he had a
quarrel with another person who stabbed him with a knife. On April 27, 2008,
the brothers Wang Yongguo and Wang Yongbang had a dispute over money. Wang
Yongguo's nephew hit him in the head with an iron tool. He is still confined
to a hospital. Wang Yongbang was detained.

Yu Guanghong, a policeman from Changchun Road Police Station, Chuanying
District, Jilin City, accidentally shot himself and died

Yu Guanghong is 54 years old. Since July 20, 1999, he followed Jiang Zemin to
act as a vanguard to persecute Dafa disciples. Up until last year, over 20 Dafa
disciples had been

illegally arrested, persecuted, sent to forced labor camps, imprisoned, and
sent to brainwashing centers due to his actions.(He was on the list of evil
people in 2005.) On the evening of April 24, 2008, when Yu Guanghong was on-duty
and trying to stop a fight, he fired a shot in the air. In the confusion, he
fired a bullet through his own neck and died instantly. We hope more police
officers become clearheaded, cease doing evil, and quit the CCP and its
associated organizations as soon as possible to be saved.

Zhang Yumei from Duolun County, Inner Mongolia, persecuted Dafa and
practitioners and met with retribution for her evildoing

Zhang Yumei was from Duolun County, Inner Mongolia, was already retired. She
once worked at the town resident committee of Duolun County. Since Jiang's evil
regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, she closely cooperated
with the local
610
Office and police station to illegally monitor practitioners and participate
in the brainwashing sessions. In order to gain fame and self-interest, she did
not listen to good advice and acted willfully to persecute practitioners. In
July 2007, she was diagnosesd with leukemia. On January 24, 2008, she died at 49
years old. Before her death, she said she was guilty and that she should not
have participated in persecuting Dafa and practitioners.

69 People Declare that their Words
and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

A Total of 391741 Declarations Have Been Published To Date

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public
statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under
duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these
statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to
express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had
signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also,
as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been
deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also
submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [9/22/2007]

Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [9/1/2007]

Solemn Declarations By People Who Have Awakened to the Truth about Falun Gong
[9/23/2007]

Please click here for more
Solemn Declarations

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Police Torture Ms. Wang Weiyue (Qian'an City, Hebei Province)

French magazine Stunned Interviews a Falun Gong Practitioner

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China to Bar Olympic Athletes?

2007-05-31T17:53:00.000-05:00

China’s Ministry of Public Security Issues Secret Directive to Investigate and Bar Thousands Worldwide from Olympics

NEWS - May 31, 2007 Falun Dafa Information Center [ http://www.faluninfo.net/ ] China’s Ministry of Public Security Issues Secret Directive to Investigate and Bar Thousands Worldwide from Olympics

Directive Targets Falun Gong, Dalai Lama, Counter-Revolutionaries, and the Handicapped

FDI: NEW YORK, NY – In what may be its most audacious Olympic act yet, China’s Ministry of Public Security has issued an incredible directive that lists 43 categories of unwanteds who are to be investigated and barred from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Falun Dafa Information Center has learned. Pariah groups include eerily vague “key individuals in ideological fields,” “overseas hostile forces,” “counter-revolutionary” figures, the Dalai Lama and all affiliates, members of “religious entities not sanctioned by the state” (e.g. Roman Catholics), “individuals who instigate discontentment toward the Chinese Communist Party through the Internet,” and even certain types of “handicapped” persons.

Members of the Falun Gong would be barred, as would “family members of deceased persons” killed in “riots” — a euphemism for events such as the Tiananmen Massacre — and Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, which the regime brands “national separatists.” Only at the very bottom of the directive does it identify “violent terrorists” and members of “illegal organizations” as targets for investigation and possible barring.

To be investigated are participating athletes, members of the media, Olympic staff members, referees, sponsors, dignitaries, and the International Olympic Committee itself, among others, to determine whether they fall into any of the 43 categories. If carried out, the directive would amount to an espionage effort of astounding proportions, and would fly in the face of international law.

The Ministry’s directive, said to have been issued in April and titled “Notification on Strictly Carrying Out Background Investigations on Candidates for the Olympics and Performing a Pre-Selection Screening” has reportedly been circulated to each Chinese province and autonomous region as well as to all police stations and bureaus in municipalities directly under the Central Government. The Information Center is making available the relevant excerpt of the original document (Chinese) as well as a translation (English).

The directive also calls upon all levels of China’s regime to “cooperate,” but adds that it is “vital to keep this directive and all associated activities secret… it is of utmost importance to give the look of an easygoing environment to the outside, but in fact keep a firm handle on all activities.”

“To see China’s rulers abusing their Olympic privileges like this is simply unconscionable,” said Mr. Erping Zhang, Information Center spokesperson. “The regime appears to have gone so far beyond international norms as to risk absurdity, and is clearly bent on hiding this fact. This means that a shockingly large number of people could not participate in, work at, sponsor, or report on the Olympics. You might even have your phone tapped although you live in London, or you might be spied on in Florida, simply on account of your possible political or religious beliefs.”

“The CCP is making a mockery of the Olympic spirit,” Zhang said.

The directive is yet further evidence that China’s rulers are capitalizing on the Olympics to quash dissent, particularly the Falun Gong. A Feb. 21, 2001, Reuters report revealed that the campaign against Falun Gong had escalated as China entered the final stages of bidding for the 2008 Olympics. The report cited the state-run Xinhua propaganda outlet as saying the government had given “citations” to 110 organizations and 271 individuals “for anti-Falun Gong work” and to “wipe out” Falun Gong.

A July 17, 2001, report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, meanwhile, disclosed that after Beijing landed the 2008 Olympics, China’s then Vice Premier declared that winning the Olympics was “justification for the country’s crackdown on the Falun Gong.”

In 2005, an intelligence journal, Intelligence Online, revealed that China’s deputy public security minister, Liu Jing, had been assigned the responsibility of wiping out Falun Gong before the Games. A directive was issued “demanding that all of the country’s security services lend a hand” in the effort. Notably, investigators were to be appointed even to Chinese embassies around the world to “infiltrate” Falun Gong groups there. This would appear to anticipate the new, April directive dictating massive international espionage.

A growing body of voices has been calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics in light of the regime’s human rights abuses. Many point in particular to the regime’s complicity in Sudan, where it has blocked U.N. and other efforts to stem the tide of genocide, with the regime itself being known to supply arms to the Sudanese government. Some China watchers have likened Beijing’s Olympic efforts to those of Nazi Germany in connection with the 1936 Berlin Olympics — referred to by many as the Nazi Olympics. Historians have said of the ’36 Games that “the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.” (link)

“China’s regime is using the Olympics to legitimize its oppression,” said Zhang. “Is China’s communist dictatorship to decide who gets a share of human rights come Olympics time? Or are the games to just be one big propaganda stunt?”

The Falun Dafa Information Center is calling upon the International Olympic Committee to vigorously investigate the above, and take firm, principled action to uphold the Olympic Charter and the human rights it enshrines.

# # #

NEWS - May 31, 2007 Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

Background Founded in 1999, the Falun Dafa Information Center is a New York-based organization that documents the rights violations of adherents of Falun Gong (or “Falun Dafa”) taking place in the People’s Republic of China. In July of 1999 China’s autocratic Communist Party launched an unlawful campaign of arrests, violence, and propaganda with the intent of “eradicating” the apolitical practice; it is believed certain leaders feared the influence of the practice’s 100 million adherents. The campaign has since grown in violence and scope, with millions having been detained or sent to forced labor camps. The Center has verified details of over 3,000 deaths and over 63,000 cases of torture in custody (reports / sources). Falun Gong is a traditional-style Buddhist “qigong” practice, with roots in the Chinese heritage of cultivating the mind/body for health and spiritual growth.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Joel Chipkar 416-709-8678. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

ChangChun Police Station and atrocities surrounding it.

2007-03-14T13:54:00.000-05:00

Let's examine this Changchun Police Station. Reports state that the police there have engaged in activities of persecution against practitioners of Falun Dafa.

Police will typically follow 'orders from above'. So that basically means that the CCP or chinese communist party is responsible for the peresecution of Falun Gong in China.

Such atrocities should not be permitted to continue.

You can read about the less than memorable deeds of the CCP over the last six decades at:

http://ninecommentaries.com/

Pass this information on to others. It is important for people to see the Chinese government (the Chinese communist Party) for what it really is.

Slave labor is a fact of life in China. There is a labor camp system. Some of the goods made in these labor camps end up for sale in the United States and other countries.

Should we be concerened?

New Organ Harvesting Related Story

2007-02-26T11:08:00.000-06:00

Man faces deportation from Australia (they refused to give him asylum)

You can read the post here.

It appears that the Australian government is NOT fully informed or up to speed on the persecution.

We need your help to let them know that the situation in China is real and it is severe.

This man has already been detained twice by Chinese authorities before fleeing to Australia in 2,000. Is the Australian government so naive that they think this man won't be persecuted when he returns to China?

You have got to be kidding me. The Australian leader needs to pay attention to what is going on, stop currying favor with a wicked regime and start doing the right thing(s) .

He has a history of turning a blind eye to the truth (or) just plain not caring.

In either case, I hope you will contact the Australian authorities and tell them not to deport this man. Your voice can make a difference.

33 Year Old Female Post Grad Student Killed in Chinese Labor Camp

2007-02-23T12:40:00.000-06:00

- So the big question is. When is this going to end?

Story Source - [Clearwisdom.net]

Ms. Lin Tiemei, a 33-Year-Old Postgraduate Student, Was Tortured to Death by Forced Labor Camp and Mental Hospital Authorities

Guangxi Falun Dafa practitioner Ms.Lin Tiemei died as a result of torture on December 8, 2005. Authorities from Guangxi Woman's Forced Labor Camp and Guangxi Demobilized and Retired Serviceman Hospital are responsible for her death. She was only 33 years old. Statistics show that three other practitioners were persecuted to death at the same hospital.

Ms. Lin from Bobai County in Guangxi Province, was a post-graduate student from Beijing Medical College. Because of her unyielding belief and persistent efforts in clarifying the truth of Falun Dafa, she was arrested twice between 2000 and 2004. The Bobai Public Security Bureau took her to a forced labor camp where she was subjected to various inhumane torture methods. The authorities tortured the previously robust practitioner to the point where she weighed approximately twenty-seven kilograms (55 pounds) and was emaciated. Once during her imprisonment, Ms. Lin was taken to the Bobai County Hospital for treatment. However, the Bobai County Public Security Bureau ordered her to return to the labor camp for further torture before she had recovered from her injuries.

On October 1, 2000, Lin Tiemei was en route to Beijing to appeal to the central government. Police arrested and sentenced her to three years at Guangxi Women's Labor Camp. Liang Suzhen and Lv Dengyun joined with prison guards to conduct so-called "strict management" on steadfast practitioners, including Lin Tiemei. Criminal inmates were ordered to take turns watching practitioners around the clock and did not allow Ms. Lin and other firm practitioners to sleep. Sometimes she spent the entire night sitting on the ground, handcuffed behind her back, and she was also hung by the handcuffs. Lin Tiemei could not shower or relieve herself without the permission of the prison guards. Family members were not allowed to visit or bring daily necessities. The prison guards did not allow anyone to help her.

Lin Tiemei was subjected to inhumane torture at the labor camp. With her hands and feet tied tightly, her arms and legs were stretched out as wide as possible on a bed and she was forced to relieve herself on the bed. The prison guards also incited criminal inmates to beat Ms. Lin. They forced cleaning rags and stinky socks into her mouth, used rubberized fabric to seal her mouth, put a helmet on her head, handcuffed her, and took her to the so-called "dragon palace." This treatment and these conditions caused the skin around her mouth to become rotten.
In order to resist the torture inflicted on her, Ms. Lin went on a hunger strike, and prison guards force-fed her. According to a witness, Lin Tiemei was cruelly tortured by prison guards. She was handcuffed behind her back, forced to wear a metal helmet, and her mouth was sealed with rubberized fabric. Her entire body was black and blue as a result of the torture, and she was shocked with electric batons and other cruel torture devices.

At Guangxi Women's Forced Labor Camp, she was tortured until she became unconscious, and her life was in great danger. The guards started a rumor that she had gone insane because she practiced Falun Gong. During the 2004 Lunar New Year, the guards in the labor camp spread another rumor, that Ms.Lin Tiemei was released on bail for medical treatment. In reality, she was locked up in a secret room and totally restrained. She was handcuffed daily, not allowed to sleep, not given a blanket, even during the cold winter, and was forced to sit on a wooden board.
Lin Tiemei was then transferred to the Yulin Demobilized and Retired Servicemen Hospital in Gnuangxi, which is a district level mental institution.

On November 25, 2005, Lin Tiemei's family went to the hospital and demanded to see her. Hospital authorities rejected their request without giving a reason. Ten days later, on December 8, Ms. Lin Tiemei died as a result of the torture at the Demobilized and Retired Servicemen Hospital. The death report presented by the hospital described Lin Tiemei's death as a "sudden death."

After her death, the staff in the hospital dared not face the media. Ms. Tiemei's family refused to sign the cremation paper. To cover up the facts and deceive the public, the Bohai County Politics and Law Committee and the local 610 Office paid Lin Tiemei's family 16,000 yuan to avoid further trouble.

While Lin Tiemei was being held at the hospital, the physician-in-charge was Zhou Xiong. The nurses were Liang Zhanwei, Chen Wenlan, Jiang Beilian and Min Jiaai.

Above article in Chinese

Read more about persecution deaths.

Young Chinese Defector Rescued from Kidnapping Attempt

2007-02-12T12:59:00.000-06:00

A young girl from China who was visiting the US with a Chinese tour group was almost kidnapped to China when she expressed her wish to seek asylum.

Here is a longer post which includes all of the details about this foiled plot by
Communist agents to get the girl out of the United States and back to China.

Given China's human rights record there is a good chance that this young girl would
have faced persecution and torture for her wish to practice Falun Gong. She may have even
been sent to China's labor camp system.

Visit the longer post mentioned above and leave your comments on the Chinese agents' broken crime scheme.

The Killing and Torture Continues

2007-02-10T11:03:00.000-06:00

ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO MOBILIZE TO END ORGAN HARVEST HORRORSPractitioners of the Falun Gong, human rights activists, and members of government continue to raise concerns and press China for answers over the Kilgour-Matas report, despite blanket denials and blocked attempts at investigation by China's communist regime. In recent weeks the organ harvesting crimes have been the subject of informational booths at California State Fullerton; film screenings in France; a march to Prague in the Czech Republic; and a speech at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on Martin Luther King Day. Meanwhile, in Malaysia over 10,000 signatures have been collected and presented to the government calling for measures to end the organ crimes in China.

REPORTS OF TORTURE, ABUSE IN CUSTODY POUR IN AS NEW YEAR BEGINSThe Information Center has received reports of 75 new cases of torture and abuse in custody, unlawful arrests and imprisonment, and other rights abuses in China specific to Falun Gong believers since the start of the new year. A typical case is that of Mr. Wu Yinchang, a 41-year-old pharmacist formerly employed at Xiyuan Hospital of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. Wu's life is believed to be at risk following prolonged torture, starvation, sleep deprivation, and other abuses while held in custody at the Qianjin Prison, ninth division, in Beijing. He is serving a 7-year sentence for the “crime” of having mailed informational material about Falun Gong via the postal system. Sources in China report seeing Wu's body covered with blisters and bruises following prolonged beatings. He has reportedly been locked in a small, dark cell restricting movement for up to months on end, and is routinely denied sleep in an attempt to break Wu's will and force a “renunciation” of Falun Gong. Family indicate that he has trouble walking now. The Information Center is calling for Wu's immediate and unconditional release and access to necessary medical attention.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

New York's Global Gala

2007-02-09T16:52:00.000-06:00

Here is a neat way to attend the Gala in New York and to get a discount on tickets.

When you go to the above link, scroll down to the bottom to find a coupon code that you can utilize for your tickets.

The New York show is something that you'll definitely want to see with your family.

There is a family discounted rate as well.

Enjoy the show!

Video for Global Gala

2007-02-08T17:49:00.000-06:00

This video is a taste of the Chinese New Year, Global Gala Celebration that is happening this year.

Here is the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2487080009338699382&hl=en

The video is on Google video so it is safe to watch and enjoy.

You can read an article about the Gala here.

Don't miss this show; it promises to be very entertaining, very exciting and very uplifting.

And it is coming to a city near you.

Check show times here: http://bestchineseshow.com

Global Gala Celebration

2007-02-05T18:18:00.000-06:00

The Chinese New Year Global Gala Celebration - is coming to a city near you!

There is still time to catch this beautiful production.

Imagine being there live to see all the spectacular sites, hear the wonderful sounds and be spellbound by the vivid colors of bright costumes worn by performers from different parts of the world.

This is one event you don't want to miss!

Watch the stunning slide shows here.

Organ Harvesting Details Disclosed

2007-02-01T16:46:00.000-06:00

A new post on the immoral organ harvesting in China has been made.

It's really time for this nonsense to stop, don't you agree?

Why does the Chinese Communist Party continue to committ these dastardly deeds?

Read the link above and comment below. Your thoughts and comments will be helpful to the other people who will find this blog.

It's time that the Chinese governement ends these crimes. They are making a profit and killing off the people they don't agree with at the same time. That is pure evil.

Tell them to stop. Write, make telephone calls, send faxes to these bad guys from all over the world. Let's remind them everyday that what they are doing is wrong, so that they don't forget and so that the issue is never forgotten. Let's keep it in the limelight 24X7 until it stops!

Here is a detailed 69 page report on the organ harvesting in China.

Tags: organ harvesting, Chinese communist party, CCP, atrocities in China

About the Persecution and More

2007-01-25T09:36:00.000-06:00

1.) Here is an interesting post that leads a PPT presentation that everyone should see. It is very beautiful and touching. The Gala show may be coming to a city near you. Don't miss it.

2. ) Hao Yingqiangn was persecuted to death in China. Read his story and know the truth about how the Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. This kind of bad behavior from the CCP is going on today. It would be good if the CCP ended the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

3. ) The Death of Li Hongfu - You can see a picture of his emaciated state from ill treatment by the CCP.

4.) Read about The First Emperor - This post leads to a commentary on how the CCP is trying to justify it's use of force to make people do what they want. Subjugation of the masses is the CCP's continual mission. They were not elected to power, they seized power and have been at it ever since.

The CCPs rise to power and their way of maintaining it is a serious lesson in history on why Communism never works - certainly not the way Carl Marx intended it to be.

I remember talking to a sociology professor at a local college. This guy actually supported violent overthrow and putting anyone that resisted into labor camps. (sounds just like China to me)
I don't think he thought things through very well. Read the nine commentaries to understand why Communism and particularly the CCP's version of it is so wrong!

5. Read (and see) more about the Global Gala celebration around the world.

How Do I find More Information on the Persecution in China?

2006-12-24T05:49:00.000-06:00

Since the blog you are reading now has been around for a while, there is plenty of information here, you can search the large archives to your heart's content.

You can also find additional information about the persecution on many other websites. Here are a few.

Clearwisdom.net - Daily posts about the persecution in China. This site is a great way to keep up on the atrocities.

Faluninfo.net - An archive of information about the persecution and what you can do to help. Photo archives as well.

Friends of Falun Gong - A non-profit organization designed to do everything it can to stop the persecution in China. You can donate or lend other assistance there.

Read the post below to watch some great video clips about the upcoming entertainment events promoted by New Tang Dynasty TV.

You Tube Videos

2006-12-09T11:53:00.000-06:00

Here are a few Youtube videos that you may enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_kU7-B2vI

Holiday Wonders Show! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-jEOohvJC4

Holiday Wonders Show - 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8E2sx3t2o

Wonders 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a4GW2cHOLs

2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkeYHJA7HVE

This last one might not be as fun, but it does tell us about the organ harvesting crimes in China:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP38ECI_Xk (B. Fletcher or C. Liu - this one is for your education)

May the persecution of innocent Falun Gong practitioners end soon.

Another Example of Persecution for Doing the Right Thing

2006-12-02T20:20:00.000-06:00

Seems like the commies in China never give up on their ruthless supression of individuals who want to tell the truth and let the world know what is happening over there.

This is the story of Mr. Cao Dong

He had the courage to tell Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament about how practitioners were persecuted by the Communists in China.

Because he had the courage to speak out he was then persecuted by the commies.

Then they had the audacity to create an 'arrest warrant' four months after they had been holding him.

Real justice in China ? I don't think so. However there are some really bad people running the show over there. They appear to be nothing more than a huge mafia organization masquerading as a government.

When he reads stories like this one, I wonder if Mr. Bobby Fletcher (an alias he uses for blogging) can look in the mirror and feel good about his support of the Chinese Communist Party.

He claims to be from Taiwan, which makes one wonder even more why he supports the commies. I hope he can wake up and understand what he is doing and stop giving support to the Communists.

Even more importantly, it is time for the communist party to give up their evil ways and give people the freedom to believe in and do what they want so long as they don't hurt others.

This is how it should be in a civilized country, but apparently China isn't quite there yet. They appear to be stuck in the dark ages where torture, brainwashing and coercion are the order of the day.

Without giving freedom to their people, they will never be able to become a first rate power with a first rate economy.

People who torture others are mentally ill. They need to wake up and understand that they will ultimately hurt themselves as they lose more and more of their humanity and become more and more degenerate.

Hope this makes sense to the readers, comment below.

China Persecutes Roman Catholics as Well

2006-11-30T07:12:00.000-06:00

I read this statement placed on the website of the Congressional - Executive Commission on China.

If you took a few moments to read it, you'll realize that the Chinese government is fearful of all religions and many qigongs for no apparent rational reason
whatsoever.

And they are willing to torture and harm the followers of religions
and Qigongs to achieve ...... What? What are they trying to
do? What have they succeeded in doing? Religions and qigongs have
been around and will continue to be around far longer than the Chinese
Communist Party has been or will be........ You can bank on that fact.

Besides the persecution of Falun Gong in China, you also have
the persecution of innocent Catholics, Protestants and many other
groups.

Again, here is the statement on a government website about the persecution
of Roman Catholics and Cardinal Kung in China:

http://www.cecc.gov/pages/roundtables/032502/kungRmks.php

I wonder if those who support the Chinese government understand what exactly they are supporting? Some seem to be proud of their support of the Chinese government and its many CRIMES against Humanity?

comment below.

Concerned People Telling the World about Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

2006-11-26T22:38:00.000-06:00

Concerned People Telling the World about Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

Imagine that your belief system teaches you to follow three principles: to be True, Good, and Endure. In every aspect of society—your home, work, social life—you’re required to be honest, kind, and tolerant.

Consequently, you’re benefiting every aspect of society, and everyone—your family, friends, coworkers—can see that you are a good person even under the most difficult circumstances.

Through practicing this system, your health has improved, you’re doing a better job at your work, you’ve found new meaning to life, and you’re creating an environment of harmony for yourself and those closest to you.

Now, imagine that because of the popularity of this belief system, the government, fearing a lack of control, labels it an illegal cult. If you continue to practice it, you may be harassed, fired, arrested, sentenced to forced labor, beaten, tortured, raped, possibly even harvested for your organs—while you live—and/or then killed.

You don’t really have to use your imagination, however; this is the life of a Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) practitioner under the tyrannical rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

You can help: tell others, contact elected officials, ask the media to report on this.

Please go to: faluninfo.net

Laogai or Forced Labor Camps Very Much Alive in China

2006-10-29T00:29:00.000-05:00

Don't be fooled by the Chinese government's denial of the existence of forced labor camps in China.

There is ample proof in this document . Scroll down to about paragraph seven and you will find that forced labor is a major economic vector in China. You could even say that the Chinese gov relies on forced labor as a driver for it's so called, 'growing economic power'.

when you have essentially free labor it is easy to outperform economically.

People who do business with China should keep this in mind. By fueling the Chinese economy with money in exchange for goods produced this way, people are in effect, supporting and encouraging the Chinese government to push more and more people into forced labor situations.

If you do a search for Lao Gai, you will find ample information about these forced labor camps. If you do a search for the term "laogai" you will find even more.

People like Bobby Fletcher need to understand what they are supporting when they try to say that forced labor camps don't exist. The evidence is out there and it is overwhelming in size and scope.

The Chinese government does its best hide the truth but when something like this is being done on such a mass scale for such a long time, the truth slips out even from behind an iron curtain.

Please be aware that supporting the import of inexpensive Chinese goods is pretty much aiding and abetting the Chinese government's crimes against humanity.

I understand the wish to procure cheap, inexpensive goods to resell. However, when it comes at the expense of untold suffering of innocent and / or helpless victims, there are certain humane obligations that push themselves to the forefront of the consience.

I hope you can read the above report and others like it, then forward it / them on to other people, especially business people that need to be aware.

I'm not clamoring for a boycott, I'm just pointing out that support for the market is helping to fuel the abuse of human rights in China.

I hope it can stop soon.

Comment below

Here is an additional link on this topic:

Exposing Slave Labor Practices Inside Chinese Labor Camps - Part I

Here are pictures of products made from force labor. ( you might recognize some of them)

Technorati Tags: forced+labor, laogai, lao+gai, Chinese+government, persecution, falun+gong, labor+camp, forced+labor

Criminal Offense in China

2006-10-18T17:31:00.001-05:00

It's a criminal offense to criticize the government in China. They sentence people to jail or worse for this 'offense' all the time in China. This is a severe violation of human rights and freedoms.

Yes, I know, it has been going on for a long time. However, it is time for it to stop. Because frankly, it is a terrible way for any government to treat the citizens of its own country.

Frankly, I believe people should have the right to believe in what they want, so long as it doesn't cause physical harm to anyone else. But China has different ideas. They don't seem to 'get it'. Unfortunately, it is this same policy that hurts China in every environment they attempt to do well in.

Why do I say this? There is a very simple answer. They stifle their intellectual capital all the time, giving themselves a handicap in every which way.

If you study free countries that are prosperous you realize that free countries are prosperous precisely because they allow for creativity and the open discussion of thoughts and ideas. Prosperous countries tend to do this. The more freedoms that individuals enjoy within a country, the more new things come to market, the more creativity exists, the more society flourishes.

When you try to shut people down by making them afraid to say anything, of course the exchange of ideas will be stifled. Fear will replace it. And with fear comes deterioration.
Isn't is so much better to have a country full of people that feel free, confident and secure. They can then do their best work for society, push society forward and make the culture stronger and better.

It is just the opposite in countries like China. Without freedom and with rampant corruption, there is nothing more than the two classes, the exploiters and the exploited. Oh, sure there are people that fall into both categories, but in general that is the problem.

Without free elections you have a country that has a ruling class or dictatorship. Without, accountability to the public, without the need to take care of voters to insure one's position, there is nothing left but rulers (officials) who are going to hurt and exploit others. Without accountability it is so easy to fall into the situation you have in China today.

The Chinese culture and society could flourish much more. The ruling communist party members, for the most part, have no incentive to make the lives of its citizens happier. If they did, the situation would be different.

Instead, they feel that they can torture, kill, imprison or eliminate anyone that even raises the specter of a democratic idea or good idea. This policy doesn't just ensnare the people who are interested in democracy, but also extends to those who hold a belief in almost anything.
As the main character pointed out in the move , V is for Vengeance, an idea is not flesh, it can not be killed or repressed or destroyed. An idea in many ways is stronger than flesh and that is what the Communist Party leaders dread the most.

An idea can grow and gather strength and supporters. Any organized group that stands for making life better for the people is what the Chinese Commie leaders fear the most.
But, what they do not understand, especially in the case of Falun Gong, is that peaceful meditators who believe in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance have no interest in taking over. They simply want to be good for goodness' sake. To meditate and focus on making themselves better people.

Why torture them for that?

The commies have nothing to fear from this, in fact it can make the society better and people happier. So why not stop the torture and senseless killing today?

What government wouldn't want that? Therefore, the persecution of Falun Gong is irrational.
Tags: Falun Gong, Falun Dafa, meditation, persecution, torture, killing, Chinese Communist Party, communism, China, Chinese

The New Year's Gala Celebration in New York - don't miss it.

2006-10-15T22:17:00.000-05:00

You Have to see the Chinese New Year Gala Event in New York, this December. Details

NTDTV's 2007 Chinese New Year Global Spectacular will be performed in 20 major cities around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul and concluded in Chicago.

Please join us to experience the myths and legends of China’s 5000 year old history, including the finest Chinese ancient music, traditional martial arts, Chinese ethnic dances, western orchestra, and energizing drum beating.

The English programs will be side by side of the Chinese ones. www.wonders.ntdtv.com

Chinese Police don't mind killing and torturing their own

2006-10-15T13:00:00.000-05:00

Just read an article from Clearwisdom.net about two police officers that dared to practice Falun Gong. The story details how one was beaten to death by Chinese authorities.

Here is the full story.

So, like , when is this going to stop? Do you need further proof at this point. The Chinese government is out of control in its irrational wish to destroy peaceful meditators. There is no logical reason whatsoever. (if you think you have a logical reason, leave your understanding of the situation by clicking on the comment section)

I want to hear from the readers of this blog what their thoughts are on this.

The craziness and irrationality in China appears to be continuing.

Some of those things you buy at certain retail chains could have been made by persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Think about that.

No, I'm not calling for a boycott. We need a solution that will get the Chinese government to stop persecuting Falun Gong and other people.

The Persecution of Falun Gong in China

2006-10-14T10:09:00.000-05:00

The Persecution of Falun Gong in China has gone on for far too long now. Partly, the reason is that the international community is unwilling to pay attention to the sufferings of the Chinese people at the hands of their own government. That may be because much money and big business is being done with China right now.

Everyone wants proof of the persecution. It seems to me there is ample proof available at clearwisdom.net and faluninfo.net Of course, Amnesty International has also reported in depth on the issue of Chinese citizens being abused by the Chinese government as well.

So, why does the persecution continue. I don't really have any rational answers for that question mainly because it is an irrational situation to begin with. Why should it matter what people believe in the space between their two ears? Or to rephrase that, why should it matter to the Chinese government that people want to meditate and believe in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance.

Do they fear that they will be overthrown or something like that? Why? The Falun Dafa practitioners are peaceful. They don't fight back even when the Chinese agents or police come to get them and send them to labor camps and / or torture them.

The atrocities in this world are many. If China is the country with the largest population, perhaps that is the first place where human rights should be respected.

I know there are a lot of problems in the world and everyone is engrossed with their own issues and struggles. But if we don't look up from what we are doing and try to help prevent the unnecessary suffering of others, what kind of people are we?

Joy can be found in giving. Give some of your time to help end the persecution of Falun Gong in China. You might find yourself extremely happy to know that you did something good for the world.

The amount of torture that the Falun Gong practitioners suffer is enormous and it just should not be that any human being should suffer so at the hands of another human being. What is it that drives a normally decent person to torture and kill another? He can get away with it because his government permits him to do so? Does that make it right?

One problem is there are not enough people standing up and saying they won't follow such instructions. I guess in China, these people would rather follow the government orders to hurt innocent people rather than face the prospect of losing their jobs. I don't know, but it sure seems senseless to me.

The International community has become pretty adept at not even looking at the issue. But I guess that is another story.

Imagine the pain of languishing in a prison or labor camp, where you know that there is little hope. The outside world doesn't seem to care that you are there or care about what you are going through. Your loved ones can't find you because they do not know where you were taken too. Are you alive? Dead? Nobody knows or nobody will tell.

How sad this world is. Each of us do have our personal tragedies, but we have got to think about the suffering of others more than our own suffering or as individuals we may lose the good qualities that make us human.

Tags: persecution, Falun Gong, torture, human rights, Amnesty International, humanity, help

US Congressman Condemns Points Out Organ Harvesting Atrocities

2006-10-07T21:30:00.000-05:00

(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime is accused of harvesting organs from detained Falun Gong practitioners for sale to wealthy patients. Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, pointed out that this atrocity is a great evil.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher

According to a VOA report on October 2, 2006, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee held a hearing, inviting the authors of an investigative report on the allegations of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China to testify.

Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific and MP David Kilgour and Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas recently stated before the committee that according to their investigation, the CCP regime's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners indeed exists.

Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas released an investigative report on this in July. Mr. Kilgour expressed that the CCP regime has put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience over the past half decade, and then sold their organs at high prices.

Mr. Kilgour said, "Most of the victims were convicted of nothing; they were murdered by medical professionals for their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, and sold at high prices to foreigners."

Mr. Matas said at the hearing that they have collected 18 kinds of evidence, and all the evidence pointed in the same direction: harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners indeed exists.

Mr. Matas said that they tracked traditional sources of transplants, including donors, death row inmates and brain-dead donors. From data they could find that these sources "come nowhere near to explaining the total number of transplants in China." These traditional sources have not much difference comparing to those in the past, but "the increase in organ transplants in China parallels the increase in persecution of Falun Gong."

According to background information provided by Dana Rohrabacher to other members of the subcommittee before the hearing, this last March, Falun Gong claimed that the CCP regime sent Falun Gong practitioners to concentration camps in different places across China and many practitioners have had their organs harvested and their bodies cremated to destroy the evidence.

Congressman Rohrabacher expressed at the hearing that he did not have a deep understanding of Falun Gong, but he believed that everyone has the right to freedom of belief and religion.

Congressman Rohrabacher said during an interview with a VOA correspondent after the hearing that what we have learned today, as evidence shows, that the CCP regime has committed monstrous crimes, not only repression of people's religious freedom, but also repression of Falun Gong practitioners, and people who practice other religions, and now there may be acts of harvesting these people's organs for profit. If such things truly occurred, all must put pressure on the CCP regime to end this evil.

Posting date: 10/7/2006

Original article date: 10/7/2006

Category: Worldwide Support

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/10/5/139406.html

Shocking Video Details Alleged Organ Harvesting Atrocities.

2006-10-02T13:40:00.000-05:00

Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China, if true, serves a double goal for the Chinese Communist Party.

1. They make money off of the innocent Falun Gong practitioners being held in labor camps and prisons.

2. They get rid of (kill off) the Falun Gong practitioners at the same time.

Here are two reports, one written and one in Video

1. Chinese Hospitals Scramble for Organs

2. Video : Harvesting Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

If these two convincing reports are true, there are very, very terrible things happening in China.

Knowing what I do about China, this author has no reason to doubt either of these reports.

I hope that you will let others know by telling them about these atrocities.

I hope you will call your own government officials and tell them to raise these and other human rights issues with the Chinese government at every opportunity.

Stealing organs from living people is a tragedy. One that we can stop.

In addition, the Falun Gong practitioners are all good people that practice meditation and believe in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. They don't hurt anyone nor have they committed any crime.

The Chinese Communist Party is irrational in its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

The evidence of the organ harvesting crimes may disappear soon (read the above article) . It is important that the International Community Act before that time comes.

Let's put a stop to these crimes.

Tags: organ harvesting, China, Chinese Communist Party, Falun Gong, Human Rights, medical malpractice, gross injustice

Woman Raped and Tortured by "Authorities"

2006-09-30T22:42:00.000-05:00

A woman was reported to have been raped repeatedly for a period of time in a brainwashing center in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province.

She was taken away from her family and husband by Chinese authorities because she practiced Falun Gong.

This is a picture of her before:

and this is a picture of her after her ordeal:

You can read the full story here as reported by the Faluninfo.net website

One thing that makes me angry is a woman being raped.

Something that makes me angrier is a woman being raped by 'authorities' - and sanctioned by a government.

I think what makes this sinister crime even worse is that Xia was taken away and tortured this way because she enjoyed practicing Falun Gong - something that has made a lot of people, including myself healthier and happier.

Is it the knowledge in the book Zhuan Falun that makes the Chinese 'authorities' (read evil, conscience less souls) so afraid of Falun Gong?

What for? What for?

This is the book:

Do you want to know what is in it?

You can read the whole book online and for FREE here.

This book, as you can see for yourself, teaches people to be good people. Basically, it expounds on Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance.

This must be something opposite from what the Chinese Communist Party believes in judging by the way they treat people who like to read this book.

Do they think that if people learn to be more truthful. compassionate and kind that it will automatically highlight the nature of the communists as bad?

I don't know.

I can only tell with certainty that the persecution of Falun Gong in China is without reason, without rationality, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

Tags: Falun Gong, rape, torture, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Government, truth, compassion, tolerance

2006-09-25T00:45:00.000-05:00

The Epoch Times

Beijing Under Spotlight at U.N. Human Rights Council "A systematic form of inhuman and degrading treatment" is how Manfred Nowak, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur, described what he sees as "widespread" use of torture in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Nowak spoke to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 20. His statement was only one of several putting the PRC's appalling human rights record under close scrutiny on days three and four of the Second Session of the Council.

Thailand Coup Has Royal, Public Support Army Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin led a successful, bloodless coup to overthrow Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's administration late Tuesday evening on September 19. At that time, military troops began surrounding government buildings and major intersections in Bangkok. The army flooded the airwaves with royal songs, which signified a coup was unfolding. Later, the coup leaders said that they were supporters of Thailand's monarch, King Bhumipol Adulyadej.

China:

Defending Attorney Seeks Meeting with Gao As of September 20, it has been 37 days since renowned Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been detained under criminal investigation. According to law in China, the detention should not exceed 37 days. After this period of time the police should either release the litigant or issue an official arrest warrant and proceed to the next level of legal procedure. But Beijing police have not yet made any such moves.

Red Color Emerges in Taiwan's Anti-President Movement In Taiwan, two colors normally dominate the political scene: blue and green, the respective colors of the two rivaling parties. Recently the color red has emerged onto the scene, worn by protesters who want current President Chen Shui-bian out of office. Many sources have looked at the funding received by protesters and various media in Taiwan, and suspect this new red color, now synonymous with the anti-president movement, is not simply a domestic homegrown persuasion—but rather that an external and indeed red entity, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is behind the red anti-president movement.

Copyright 2006 Epoch Times

Printed by "The Citizen" a Canadian Newpaper

2006-08-30T17:37:00.000-05:00

Dear Sir:

Re: Peter King's letter in response to the Aug.23rd editorial "China in the spotlight"
Mr. King seems to think that it's more important not to disappoint a few athletes than to embarrass a Communist regime that is carrying out a genocide on millions of people who only want to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Putting a huge dent in national pride may finally help to make them end the persecution of Falun Gong.

Culture has nothing to do with it. To treasure life is common to all humanity. The Chinese Communist regime has totally lost its humanity.

I fully support the call to the Canadian government to boycott China's Olympic Games. But they need to take it a step further. The boycott just calls for an end to organ harvesting. It needs to call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. Then there would be no further huge supply of live organs for Chinese authorities to use.

Sincerely,
Susan Mitchell

Aug 28-2006 news bulletin

2006-08-28T01:46:00.000-05:00

Aug. 28, 2006

FALUN GONG NEWS BULLETIN

Monitoring the Falun
Gong Human Rights Crisis in China –
http://www.faluninfo.net/

Update: Organ Harvesting Crisis in China

STATEMENT CONCERNING HARRY WU’S POSITION ON ORGAN HARVESTING REPORTS

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN: CHINA’S OWN STATISTICS REVEAL ORGAN HARVESTING
ATROCITIES

EPOCH TIMES: AUSTRALIA CALLS FOR PROBE INTO CHINESE ORGAN CRIMES

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: ORGAN TRADE IN CHINA RAISES ALARM OVER
HUMAN RIGHTS

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: A CHINESE HORROR STORY

NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION ISSUES STATEMENT ON ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA

STATEMENT CONCERNING
HARRY WU’S POSITION ON ORGAN HARVESTING REPORTS

“As a result of Mr. Wu’s attempts to discredit the witness reports, some members
of Congress have chosen to dismiss this humanitarian issue when they could put
real pressure on the regime to end such atrocities. Whose interests, then, is
Mr. Wu really serving with his campaign?...The witness reports are horrifying,
and in a way, we all wish they weren't true. But when a Chinese surgeon
cheerfully tells a potential transplant customer they have a supply of livers
from Falun Gong practitioners, from living bodies, what are we to conclude? How
should we, as human beings and members of the international community, react to
this kind of information? For the CCP to hold spiritual practitioners in camps
like livestock until it is time to slaughter them for their organs is an evil
greater than we can imagine. If it is one day fully revealed, this is an issue
that could shake our humanity to the core.”

Full statement:
http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9452

CHINA’S OWN STATISTICS
REVEAL ORGAN HARVESTING ATROCITIES

The Ottawa Citizen (Aug 25, 2006): “Between 2000 and 2005, the source of
41,500 organs in China is unclear. China does not have a developed national
voluntary donor program. Family donors or non-family brain-dead donors account
for, at most, one per cent of donations in China. In this period, kidney
transplants just about tripled, and liver transplants jumped astronomically to
4,000 in 2005, compared with about 150 in 1998, and with promised waiting times
of one week -- unheard of in the civilized world. Consider the China
International Transplantation Network Assistance Centre website (http://en.zoukiishoku.com/)...
In the question-and-answer section, the site advertises that ‘Before the living
kidney transplantation, we will ensure the donor's renal function. ... So it is
more safe than in other countries, where the organ is not from a living donor.’
And the answer to ‘Are the organs for the pancreas transplant from brain death
patients?’ is: ‘Our organs do not come from brain death victims because the
state of the organs may not be good.’ This is damning evidence by their own
words. Anyone who knows anything about organ donations would be horrified to
learn that organs come from "live" patients, and are promised within the week or
month, including kidneys, livers and hearts. It means that live patients are
being killed to provide organs. By their own words, and the corroborating
interviews and calls, are the Chinese authorities condemned.”

Full story:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=e30130bb-a21c-482e-8f49-d3d7de2e596a

AUSTRALIA CALLS FOR
PROBE INTO CHINESE ORGAN CRIMES

The Epoch Times (Aug 23, 2006): “The Australian Government's commitment
to an independent investigation into allegations of genocide against Falun Gong
practitioners in China is a welcome first step, say former Canadian Secretary of
State, David Kilgour and Vice President of the European Parliament, Edward
McMillan-Scott. The two foreign dignitaries have spent the last week visiting
Australian members of parliament, professionals and non-government organisations
looking to gain support for an inquiry into allegations that Falun Gong
prisoners of conscience are being systematically killed for their organs.”

Full story:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-23/45203.html

ST. LOUIS
POST-DISPATCH: ORGAN TRADE IN CHINA RAISES ALARM OVER HUMAN RIGHTS

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Aug 20, 2006): “In 2001, Huagui Li was arrested
in southern China for handing out banned literature. For that crime, she could
have become one of thousands of Chinese reportedly rounded up every year and
killed for their organs. She says she was tortured repeatedly at a women's labor
camp, and one day with about 500 other detainees, was taken to a hospital for a
physical examination that included extensive medical tests. Her high blood
pressure probably saved her life, she says. It made her ineligible to become an
organ donor. Her jailers later released her.”

Full Story:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/04CC023D77BFF302862571D10015D0A3?OpenDocument

ST. LOUIS
POST-DISPATCH: A CHINESE HORROR STORY

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Aug 20, 2006): “Removing organs from a live
human being for transplanting into a wealthy foreigner seems like a horror movie
plot. But an international investigation led by a former member of Canada's
parliament concluded last month that 'there has been and continues to be the
large-scale seizure of organs from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners.' Among
evidence cited in the report are statements by the wife of a surgeon who removed
the corneas of about 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners between 2001 and 2003. It
also cites statements by officials at detention centers in Shanghai, Shandong
and the provinces of Guandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan and Hubei. Some admitted
that organs came from Falun Gong practitioners; others simply referred to the
availability of 'live, beating hearts' or 'young, healthy kidneys.' As many as
41,500 organs transplanted in China from 2000 to 2005 may have come from
prisoners, including Falun Gong practitioners, the report notes.”

Full Story:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/editorialcommentary/story/512CF02D059C4A06862571D10081EAFA?OpenDocument

NATIONAL KIDNEY
FOUNDATION ISSUES STATEMENT ON ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA

“The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is deeply concerned about recent
allegations regarding the procurement of organs and tissues through coercive or
exploitative practices abroad, or practices which violate worldwide human rights
standards. The 'Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun
Practitioners in China', from Canadian human rights attorney David Matas and
former Canadian Minister of State David Kilgour, alleges that large numbers of
Falun Gong* practitioners in China are being imprisoned and executed for the
purposes of organ or tissue donation.”

Full statement:

http://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/newsitem.cfm?id=336

For more about the organ harvesting story, see:
http://www.killed4organs.net/

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi
Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068.
Email: contact@faluninfo.net,
Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

Harvesting organs from living people for profit

2006-08-25T09:42:00.000-05:00

Some people have attempted to question the allegations that the Chinese government has been harvesting organs from live political prisoners and prisoners of conscience (such as the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners) for profit.

Here is an interesting email I received that was written by a concerned individual in Canada:

This cannot be refuted:

Between 2000 and 2005, the source of 41,500 organs in China is unclear.

China does not have a developed national voluntary donor program. Family
donors or non-family brain-dead donors account for, at most, one per cent of
donations in China. In this period, kidney transplants just about tripled,
and liver transplants jumped astronomically to 4,000 in 2005, compared with
about 150 in 1998, and with promised waiting times of one week -- unheard of
in the civilized world.

Consider the China International Transplantation Network Assistance Centre
website (http://en.zoukiishoku.com/). The Matas-Kilgour report indicates
that as of May 17, 2006, the English version of that site stated that the
centre was established in 2003 at the First Affiliated Hospital of China
Medical University "specifically for foreign friends. Most of the patients
are from all over the world." Though the original opening page of the site
has been changed, the older version can still be found, the opening sentence
of which declares that "Viscera (soft interior organs such as the lungs and
the heart) providers can be found immediately."

In the question-and-answer section, the site advertises that "Before the
living kidney transplantation, we will ensure the donor's renal function.
... So it is more safe than in other countries, where the organ is not from
a living donor." And the answer to "Are the organs for the pancreas
transplant from brain death patients?" is: "Our organs do not come from
brain death victims because the state of the organs may not be good."

This is damning evidence by their own words. Anyone who knows anything about
organ donations would be horrified to learn that organs come from "live"
patients, and are promised within the week or month, including kidneys,
livers and hearts. It means that live patients are being killed to provide
organs.

By their own words, and the corroborating interviews and calls, are the
Chinese authorities condemned.

________

So there you have it folks. If you are having any doubts about the legitimacy of the accusations against the Chinese Communist Party in China, erase them now, this is for real.

Organ Trade in China - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Article

2006-08-22T12:58:00.000-05:00

Organ trade in China raises alarm over human rights

By Deborah L. Shelton
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Deborah Shelton of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes abut the killing of prisoners specifically for their organs. ( not as an after result of an execution)

Sing a Petition

2006-08-22T11:38:00.000-05:00

This petition is about the alleged organ harvesting for profit by the Chinese Communist Party, whereby they take an organ out of a living Falun Gong practitioner or other victim in order to give it to a paying 'customer' - resulting in the death of the victim.

Sing the petition and /or get more info.

Dave

Sandstorm - the Movie

2006-08-22T11:17:00.000-05:00

In case you haven't seen the movie Sandstorm yet, you reall should watch it. It demonstrates what happens when people have time to reflect on their lives.

Often times, a person will realize that he has been doing things incorrectly or could have done better in many areas.

This is the beauty of having time to reflect on life.

If you are on the go all the time, you may not have the time to slow down and think about what is going on around you.

Sandstorm is about a policeman in China who receives the opportunity to refeclt on his life and the result is a big life change for him. He recognizes the error of his ways and begins to change.

You can learn more about the movie here.

Refusing to be Served

2006-08-19T11:35:00.000-05:00

The defendants in a civil lawsuite in Canada have refused to accept papers when served.

The bad people, accused of orchestrating a massive persecution of innocent lives in China are: Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Li Lanqing, Liu Jing and Wang Maolin

Read the story here.

Persecution of Falun Gong Escalating in Shanghai

2006-08-16T13:04:00.000-05:00

Persecution of Falun Gong Escalating in Shanghai

Over one hundred Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested within the past
two months

By Luo Na
The Epoch Times
Aug 14, 2006

Reenactment of police brutality towards Falun Gong practitioners in China.
(The Epoch Times)

As reported by Falun Gong's Minghui Chinese language website, Shanghai
Public Security Department, the National Public Security Department and
local governments of all levels have escalated the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. In May and June, over a hundred Falun Gong practitioners were
arrested in Shanghai alone.

Those familiar with the scene in Shanghai believe there are three reasons
behind the escalation. The first is that the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party issued an order in March to actively suppress anyone
who introduces Falun Gong and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party
to people.

The second reason is that authorities are trying to limit the spread of
information in mainland China about live organ harvesting from Falun Gong
practitioners, and have begun to kidnap practitioners on a larger scale.

Thirdly, in preparation for the G6 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) that took place in June, Shanghai authorities arrested
practitioners in order to further limit the spreading of information about
the persecution of Falun Gong at the SCO summit.

Below are a few of the cases that have been documented thus far:

1. On the evening of July 6, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiaomei
from Xinchang Town of Nanhui County in Shanghai was kidnapped by Xinchang
Public Security and residential committee personnel. Her home was searched,
and her belongings were confiscated.

2. On June 26, 2006, policemen kidnapped Gu Jimin, another female Falun Gong
practitioner from Shanghai, when she was visiting another Falun Gong
practitioner. Her home was then searched and her possessions confiscated. Gu
is currently in detention.

3. On June 14, 2006, Shanghai Dahua Hospital doctor Qian Wuling, went
missing on her way back home. It turned out she was kidnapped by the
Shanghai Xuhui Public Security personnel for practicing Falun Gong.

4. On May 30, 2006, Chen Yaoqing, an elderly practitioner from Pengpu Town
of Zhabei District in Shanghai was kidnapped by policemen from the Zhabei
branch 610 Office 1 , and her home was also searched. Chen Yaoqing is
currently illegally locked up at the Lingshi Road Detention Center in Zhabei
District.

[1]: An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute
power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political
and judiciary systems.

Click here to read the original article in Chinese

Copyright 2000 - 2006 Epoch Times International

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-14/44945.html

Persecution News Bulletin for August 11th, 2006

2006-08-11T00:47:00.000-05:00

Aug. 11, 2006
FALUN GONG NEWS BULLETIN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monitoring the Falun Gong Human Rights Crisis in China – www.faluninfo.net

[…] “Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Medical Affairs for TTS, Dr. Francis Delmonico, said reinforcement of the policy was necessary following the release of a report from a former Canadian MP and cabinet Minister David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer, David Matas, which concluded thousands of practitioners of the persecuted Falun Gong meditation practice have been executed for their organs in China.” [read report at: http://investigation.go.saveinter.net/]
Full story: http://www.theepochtimes.com/tools/printer.asp?id=44721

ETHICIST SAYS MOUNTING EVIDENCE DEMANDS PROFESSIONAL ACTION
University of Minnesota ethicist Kirk Allison recently published a statement about the ethical responsibilities professionals outside China face given the “mounting evidence of Falun Gong practitioners [being] used as organ sources in China.”

Dr. Allison, Associate Director of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine at the U of M, says, “The systematic government persecution of nonviolent Falun Gong practitioners in China…has constituted the greatest concentration of human rights violations against a single cultural group in China since the Cultural Revolution.”

“Given a transplantation system relying on executed prisoners generally, and strong evidence of Falun Gong practitioners as sources in particular,” he says, “the following ethical principles and policy implications apply”:

“Professional associations…should place a moratorium on research support and collaboration with transplantation in China.”
“Academic journals and educational venues…must reject papers and presentations relying on data derived from practices violating standards…”
“Academic institutions should review and suspend research collaborations involving transplantation, and transplantation data sourced from the Peoples Republic of China.”
For a full copy of the statement that can be circulated, see: http://www.theepochtimes.com/tools/printer.asp?id=44706
CANADIAN FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION CAUTIONS MEDIA OVER COVERING CCP DENIALS
TORONTO (the Falun Dafa Information Center): “When the report on organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China was published on July 6th (news) by David Kilgour, former Secretary of State (Asia Pacific), and international human rights lawyer, David Matas, we fully expected the Chinese regime to deny the report. A simple Google search with the words: “China Denies,” after all, brings up over 7.7 million entries.

Any other nation faced with allegations of this magnitude involving their own government would, at the very least, state that they would investigate. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to deny these claims and the sum-total of its response has been to attack Falun Gong.

The CCP has a 60-year history of suppression and killing through decades of brutal campaigns from the Great Leap Forward, to the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen Square student massacre. It has frequently denied proven atrocities. Yet, why do some Chinese media in Canada continue to carry their denials instead of demanding that they cease these practices?”

For the full statement, including specific questions for the media to consider, see: http://faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9450

5,000 TAIWANESE HUNGER STRIKE TO STOP ORGAN HARVESTING
Over 5,000 Taiwanese practitioners of Falun Gong joined a 24-hour hunger strike in the island’s Taizhong City in order to protest the killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs in Chinese labor camps.
Full story: http://www.theepochtimes.com/tools/printer.asp?id=44422

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR EDITORIAL: ORGAN HARVESTING AND CHINA’S OPENNESS
(Aug 3, 2006) “China is scurrying to welcome the world when it hosts the 2008 Olympic Games. […] Two paths lie ahead for President Hu Jintao and his unelected regime. One is to accelerate openness and reform and present an admirable track record of improved human rights to the world two years hence. The other is to try to hide huge discontent bubbling near the surface by cracking down on dissidents. The Hu government seems to be committed to the latter. […]

A report from two respected Canadian human rights activists, featured in today's Monitor and widely elsewhere, charges China with putting to death “a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience” since 1999 and selling their organs - hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas - at high prices to foreigners.

[…] To gain the credibility it seeks for 2008, China should provide transparent evidence to prove to the world that such outrageous practices are not being conducted.”
Full CSM editorial: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p08s02-comv.html

CSM PUBLISHES PHONE TRANSCRIPTS FROM KILGOUR-MATAS REPORT
At the bottom of an August 3 article, the Christian Science Monitor published excerpts from phone transcripts cited in the Kilgour-Matas report as evidence of systematic killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs in China. Here is one example:

M: ... So how long do I have to wait [for organ transplant surgery]?
Doctor: About a week after you come....
M: Is there the kind of organs that come from Falun Gong? I heard that they are very good.
Doctor: All of ours are those types.

For full article, see: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0803/p16s01-lire.html

For the Kilgour-Matas report, including the phone transcripts, see: http://investigation.go.saveinter.net/
For more about the organ harvesting story, see: http://www.killed4organs.net/

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

August Update from Friends of Falun Gong

2006-08-09T01:52:00.000-05:00

I recently received a monthly update for August from Friends of Falun Gong, I have posted the letter keeping us abreast of the human rights violations and responses from around the world here

Terry Marsh has filed a lawsuit against two doctors who have overseen organ harvesting in China. She stated that there will be more lawsuits too.

I for one am glad that Terry is out there working so hard on all of this. She is a true blessing to the human race.

Her hard work is going to make our world a better place.

Kudos to Terry and all the other hard working people here on Earth that are trying to make a difference and stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China

Dave

Public Forum for Organ Harvesting

2006-08-05T12:57:00.000-05:00

There will be a discussion forum (open to the public) in Kansas City on August 17th.

Featured speakers will be Dr. Wenyi Wang and Dr. Charles Lee

Charles was imprisoned in China for three years by the Chinese Communist Party for his work on human rights.

Dr. Wenyi Wang was the courageous woman who spoke out during a speech by the president of China about the organ harvesting issues.

They will both be present at this forum. Hope to see you there.

Details on public Organ harvesting forum

Falun Gong July 28th Newsletter

2006-07-28T01:18:00.000-05:00

I just received the Falun Gong July 28th Newsletter from Faluninfo.net

I have posted it here:

http://www.allthingspondered.com/rights/falun-gong-news-bulletin-july-28-2006/

12 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

2006-07-24T04:23:00.000-05:00

Washington DC: 1,500 People Hold a Rally and Parade to Support the 12 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

(Clearwisdom.net) About 1,500 people from around the world held a rally on July 21, 2006 on Lafayette Square opposite the White House in Washington DC. They rallied in support of the 12 million Chinese people who have resigned from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. More than a dozen speakers analyzed the inevitable trend of the disintegration of the CCP from different angles, including the persecution of Falun Gong and the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. They called on the people of China to quit the CCP and its affiliated associations as soon as possible. Following the rally, the group held a themed parade based on the Nine Commentaries, Quitting the CCP and efforts to end the persecution.

Historic Torture Lawsuit against Former Head of China

2006-07-19T19:24:00.000-05:00

Falun Gong Wins Motion in Historic Torture Lawsuit against Former Head of China Decision Paves Way for $20 Million Dollar Suit against Jiang Zemin

TORONTO (Falun Dafa Information Center) – Canadian Falun Gong practitioners won an important court motion on Monday which clears the way for judgment on the merits of an historic $20 million civil lawsuit against the former head of China, Jiang Zemin, and four other officials for torture.

Master Glustein of Ontario Superior Court granted the plaintiffs’ request to dispense with service to the defendants of the statement of claim and other court material. China has refused to accept the documents.

“The plaintiffs have ‘done everything in [their] power to effect service’ of the claim,” Master Glustein said in the 5-page decision. He also stated that it is in the interests of justice that service be dispensed with so that the case may proceed. “The plaintiffs will not be able to pursue any of these claims (systematic persecution and violations of genocide, torture and crimes against humanity) unless the Court dispenses with service.”

The Ontario case asserts that the five defendants orchestrated the systematic and brutal persecution of the six Canadian plaintiffs and hundreds of thousands of other Falun Gong practitioners in China. One of the plaintiffs, Professor Kunlun Zhang, was a Canadian citizen at the time of his detention and torture in China.

Master Glustein’s decision comes on the heels of a Canadian independent report released on July 6 that the Chinese government and its agencies have harvested vital organs and put to death large number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience since 1999. (news / special report)
The plaintiffs will now seek a final judgment, likely in a default proceeding – meaning that the defendants will not defend the action. This case is one of 54 civil and criminal legal proceedings in 33 countries, against Jiang and other officials. Falun Gong practitioners have won several default judgments around the world.

CONTACT: Kate Kempton, Olthuis Kleer Townshend, legal counsel: 416-571-6775
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NEWS - July 19, 2006Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

2006-07-14T04:25:00.000-05:00

Special Organ Harvesting Bulletin

INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION CONCURS WITH ORGAN HARVESTING ALLEGATIONS – “A GROTESQUE FORM OF EVIL…NEW TO THIS PLANET”

FULL REPORT AVAILABLE AT: http://investigation.redirectme.net/

Canadians David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, and David Kilgour, former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific and former Member of Parliament, have jointly issued a 45-page investigation report about the allegation of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. The July 6 report concluded that:

The allegations here are so shocking that they are almost impossible to believe. The allegations, if true, would represent a grotesque form of evil which, despite all the depravations humanity has seen, would be new to this planet.

We have come to the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true. … the government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and 'people's courts', since 1999 have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale at high prices…
It appears to us that many human beings belonging to a peaceful voluntary organization made illegal seven years ago by President Jiang because he thought it might threaten the dominance of the Communist Party of China have been in effect executed by medical practitioners for their organs.

The report recommends that governments request that the United Nations investigate organ harvesting from Falun Gong, which violates UN accords; that governments withhold visas from Chinese doctors seeking overseas transplant training; that governments discourage their citizens from receiving transplants in China; and that “All detention facilities, including forced labour camps, must be opened for international community inspection.”

The report is available at: http://investigation.redirectme.net/. It includes transcripts of phone conversations between investigators and Chinese hospitals, interviews with witnesses, and graphs.

CANADIAN INVESTIGATORS RESPOND TO CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY

The CCP responded to the Canadian report by accusing the two of working for Falun Gong, trying to smear China’s image and spreading rumors, while again calling Falun Gong an “evil cult.” In response, Kilgour and Matas released a statement saying:

The statement of the Government of China was released the same day as our Report…It means that the Government of China has engaged in no investigations to determine whether or not what the report contains is true…. We are not Falun Gong practitioners. We did this report as volunteers and were not paid for this report by Falun Gong or anyone. Our report represents our own judgment…

…calling the Falun Gong an evil cult exemplifies the vilification heaped on the Falun Gong. It is this sort of slander which, in China, depersonalizes and dehumanizes the Falun Gong and makes possible the violation of their basic human rights. Calling a group of innocent civilians an "evil cult" is a form of incitement to hatred, unacceptable in Canada.
Full statement details: http://investigation.redirectme.net/

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS TO INVESTIGATE AS WELL
Vancouver Sun (July 6): “The Conservative government is planning to investigate allegations in a new report that the Chinese government and its agencies are torturing religious prisoners and harvesting their organs, Tory MP Deepak Obhrai indicated on Thursday.”

Full story: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4c04f2ba-72bd-4190-879d-ec699696d2e9

Source: Falun Gong News Bulletin (July 14, 2006)

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

FREE - 69 page Booklet on Organ Harvesting

2006-07-11T10:19:00.000-05:00

A booklet called Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitoners in China By David Matas and David Kilgour is now available for FREE download.

Suggestions:

1. Read it - because you will be shocked and appalled that this is really happening!

2. Tell everyone you know about it - Because it is something that everyone should know about and because letting everyone know is the first step in solving the problem.

You can use email, printed copies or use any method you would like to distribute this report FAR and WIDE.

Canada declares that Organ Harvesting in China is REAL

2006-07-06T14:24:00.000-05:00

This report covered by Canadian TV, indicates that China really is harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners and using them to make a profit on Translplants.

Read about it here

Falun Dafa: My Search for the Truth

2006-07-01T13:12:00.000-05:00

My Search For The Truth

I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. Maybe you’ve heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong) practitioners in China. Over the past several years, many people have been committed to mental institutions, tortured, detained, imprisoned, and even killed, simply for refusing to give up this practice. Recently, there have been reports of 36 different concentration camp-like sites for harvesting the organs of living Falun Dafa practitioners coming out of China. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t know about this situation, or they’ve been given a negative impression, and so the persecution goes on. My intention is to give my impression of Falun Dafa, and hopefully, bring an awareness of this situation to the people of this country--a country that was founded on the basis of religious and spiritual freedom.

All of my life, I have been searching for answers to all of life’s most fundamental questions: Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Why do bad things happen to good people? Who is God? Why does He allow all of this?

As a child and again as a teenager, I searched for the answers in Christianity, and even though I sensed wisdom and truth in the teachings of Jesus--being honest, loving thy neighbor, turning the other cheek--there seemed to be something missing. Maybe something got lost in the translation.

I didn’t have a problem with not understanding everything about God’s actions--I mean He is God after all, and so how can I expect to understand Him? However, I did feel that I had some legitimate questions about justice. For instance, why do really bad things happen to seemingly good people? Why are babies born with deformities? How could this person’s life of ninety years be equal to that person’s life of 25 years? If all you have to do to go to heaven is believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, then what kind of a place would heaven be? I mean, I know a lot of people who believe that, and I’m not really sure that heaven would be better than earth if that were the case. Also, what happens to people who have never been exposed to Christianity or believe in some other god or religion? Obviously, I had a lot of questions that could not be answered within the framework of contemporary Christian religions. Consequently, I gave up the search--at least for the time being.

When I was twenty-three years old, I became ill. Over the next few years, I became unable to work, and I was eventually diagnosed with lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and vasculitis.

I had problems with every joint in my body; I couldn’t stand, sit, or use my hands for any length of time; I had no stamina and slept for about twelve hours every day; I often had acute pain that came and went for apparently no reason and chronic pain that could last for hours; I often could not get comfortable enough to go to sleep; because of the amount and kind of medication that I took, I developed a lot of digestive problems; and I often ran a low-grade fever for days, and sometimes, weeks at a time.

Over the last two years, the vasculitis had become quite bad. I would often break out in large hives all over my body, and would get large spontaneous ‘bruises’ on my legs and arms that were not the result of any trauma and which took an unusual length of time to heal. I knew that this could not go on indefinitely, and so I had come to accept the fact that the length of my life was severely limited.

I thought that I would just try to live what was left of my life the best that I could, but I still longed for the answers to those age-old questions. Even though I believed I would receive the answers when I died, I decided that I would ask for them while I still lived. So, one day, I imagined myself crying out to the universe for help.

I remembered reading in a book that if you ever have a question, you should go to the library. Even if they don’t have the answer, they can probably help you find it or where to go to get it. So, I went to the library to look for the answer.

In the foyer, there is a bulletin board with flyers, announcements, etc., and shelves beneath. I looked all over the bulletin board, all over the shelves, and on the bottom shelf, underneath something else, there was a brochure: a bright blue brochure with oriental characters on it. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was the answer. It was a Falun Dafa pamphlet, and inside was a contact name and number. That was February 6th of 2000.

I started practicing Falun Dafa within days. Within weeks, I was able to stop taking all of my medication, I became free of my illnesses, and I was eventually able to go back to work. These things were really just fringe benefits to me--after all, I was just looking for answers, not healing--but I became well just the same!

The practice of Falun Dafa is very simple. It consists of five exercises--four standing, and one sitting meditation--and a set of three principles, which we believe to be the nature of the universe: Zhen (True), Shan (Good), and Ren (Endure).

The exercises are gentle and relaxing, as well as energizing. The practice of implementing the principles—to be True, Good, and Endure--is simple, and yet amazingly powerful. You may notice that they are the same basic principles that Jesus taught, as well. At the very base level, Falun Dafa is learning how to be a better person in every aspect of life: at home, at work, and socially. At a higher level, the goal is the same as other practices: wisdom and enlightenment. Falun Dafa is not a religion: we don’t worship any particular God, although we do recognize the existence of great enlightened beings throughout history such as Jesus, Sakyamuni, Lao Zi, Amitabha, etc.; we don’t have temples; we don’t have any type of administration; we don’t have any rituals; there are no requirements; there is no membership; and we absolutely do not involve ourselves with money. If you want to learn about Falun Dafa, any practitioner can and will teach you the exercises for free, all the books can be downloaded from the internet for free, and we do not even accept donations. It’s a pace-yourself kind of course--you practice when you want to, how often you want to, and for how long you want to. It is completely up to you whether you practice or not.

Falun Dafa may very well be the largest spiritual movement in the history of the world. Right now, there are an estimated 100 million practitioners world-wide, with practitioners in over 50 countries, including the United States and China. All we want is to be good people and be able to practice our beliefs--our cultivation--without persecution.

Speaking of those answers: I did find them, as well. I also found a peace of mind and a sense of being that I never could have imagined. My goal is still to live my life the best that I can, but I also want to share what I have found with others who may be able to benefit as well. I would also like to inform those who believe that we all have a basic human right to practice our beliefs without being persecuted about the situation for millions of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

For more information, please see the following websites:

Faluninfo.net (for information about the persecution/to sign an electronic appeal)

Falundafa.org (for information about the practice itself)

FoFG.org (for ideas on what you can do to help)

Organ Harvesting - additional investigations

2006-06-28T12:50:00.000-05:00

Seems that people are starting to take notice of the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. These organ harvesting from live victims are one of the grossest violations of human decency that have ever been committed.

I hope you will call your government representative and ask them what they are doing about it.

EDMONTON SUN: CANADIANS INVESTIGATE ORGAN HARVESTING FROM FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERSFormer

Edmonton Member of Parliament David Kilgour “is investigating allegations that an underground network of Chinese surgeons, nurses, and hospital administration staff are harvesting organs for sale.

‘Falun Gong members are (allegedly) being held in pens, waiting to be butchered for the highest bidder in need of a cornea, a kidney, or a heart…This is becoming an export business for China, and the world is doing nothing about it’…‘I’ve heard of things being done to the Falun Gong prisoners so horrifying I can’t repeat them,’ Kilgour said, adding China recently admitted to the international community that its government executes Falun Gong prisoners…

International human rights lawyer David Matas of Winnipeg hopes to travel to China with Kilgour… Matas and Kilgour will release a preliminary report exposing the organ harvesting network July 6.”See: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2006/06/23/1650160.html

TAIWAN COUNTY COUNCIL CALLS UPON UN TO INVESTIGATE ORGAN HARVESTINGOn June 23, 2006 Taiwan’s Pingtong County Council passed a resolution condemning the organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. The council called upon the United Nations and international human rights organizations to investigate organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The resolution also urged Taiwanese not to get transplants in mainland China.See: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/6/26/74828.html

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

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Persecution stories continue to become available

2006-06-24T12:56:00.000-05:00

As you can see from the story below the persecution stories continue to slip out of China, escaping the blanket of silence the communist regime has tried to maintain. I hope you can learn from this article.

Below it are tons of phone numbers belonging to the government agents who had a hand in perpetrating these acts. Perhaps you could call them and tell them to stop being so bad.

Everyone involved, both the victims and perpetrators could use your help.

Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net, Saturday, June 24, 2006

Facts of the Persecution

Jilin City National Security Police Persecuted Practitioner Ms. Wang Yin

(Clearwisdom.net) In May 2005, the Jilin City National Security Police sent people to Ms. Wang Yin's workplace, Jilin City Radiation Chemical Industries, to investigate her activities. On July 15, 2005, four people from the National Security Police Department came to her workplace and tried to arrest her. They pushed the management to trick her into coming to the company site, but the plan failed. Later they went to her house directly to make an arrest and to search her home. In order to expose the police's illegal activities, Ms. Wang went out onto the balcony and told her neighbors about what was happening. Fearing the bad publicity, the police backed off and left her house temporarily. Right after that, Ms. Wang left her home and went into hiding.

On July 17, 2005, agents from National Security Police pretended to be water meter readers and fooled Wang Yi's mother into opening the door. The police rushed in and searched the house, confiscating many things such as Dafa books, printing materials, and personal items, including a cell phone, bank deposit book, personal ID card, etc. Later her family members repeatedly asked for the return of these items, but the police refused.

On August 31, 2005, under police pressure, her employer demanded that she come to work. On September 23, 2005, in a meeting of all its employees, the management announced that Ms. Wang Yin had grossly violated work discipline and fired her.

At the beginning of December 2005, Wang Yin's parents went to the National Security Department, asking for the return of the stolen items. Director Zhang, the person designated in National Security Department Four to persecute Falun Gong, came out to receive her parents. He gave them his own phone number and asked that Ms. Wang call him. In order to clarify the truth to him, she later called him. Zhang did not say much during the phone conversation, but about 10 days later, on December 13, 2005, a dozen national security agents rushed into the room that Ms. Wang shared with three other practitioners and arrested all of them.

That night, Ms. Wang was sent to Changchun and detained at a secret detention center under the jurisdiction of Jilin Province National Security. She was illegally detained for more than a month. Everyday she had to wear handcuffs and foot shackles; she was often forced to sit on a chair for a long time during the day. At night, she had to sleep on two chairs, because there was not enough space to lie down stretched out. She was allowed to sleep on a mattress only four times during the month, and for two nights she had to sleep sitting up in a chair. In the last 10 days of her detention, the four police officers assigned to monitor Ms. Wang forced her to watch TV almost 24 hours a day so she could hardly get any rest. As a result, she suffered from memory loss and steadily lost weight. The issues that she reported to Director Zhang were not resolved at all.

During her entire time in detention, Ms. Wang was on a hunger strike. After seven days, she was sent to the company hospital owned by Factory Number 228 for forced feeding. Subsequently, she was forced to go through forced feeding once every two to three days. In total she was force fed no less than 11 times. From the day she was arrested, Wang Yin was placed under huge psychological pressure. The first night of her detention, policeman Zuo said to her: "I want to rape you, because I am a rapist." Ms. Wang denied his evil act by sending forth the righteous thoughts. After she was transferred to Changchun, officers Yang Qi and Chen intimidated her. During this time three general director level police officers came to see her. Two of them asked to see her after she started the hunger strike. They feared that their illegal conduct might be exposed, so they did not reveal their names, but based on other information, their surnames were most likely Li and Pan. When Ms. Wang demanded her legal rights, these police officials rudely cut her off.

On January 13, 2006, the National Security Department released Wang Yin under "temporary parole with bond." She refused to sign her name, so they threatened to transfer her to the Public Security Police. Later her family members who were not practitioners signed for her and paid 2000 yuan in cash and gave a 3000-yuan IOU note. Due to severe persecution, Ms. Wang had difficulty walking.

Responsible Agencies: Area Code 432
Jilin City National Security Department: 59 Songjiang Road, Jilin City, 132011 Phone: 86-432-3501131, 86-432-2503114 Yang Qi, deputy general director (in charge of foreign affairs): 86-13804420711, 86-4324665892 (Home). He is in charge of this case. Mr. Qian, Security Section chief (he admitted that he had handled Falun Gong cases for four years): 86-13610754373 (Cell) Zhang Lianguo, director: 86-13179240987 (Cell) Wang Zhiqiang, section chief (led people to search Wang Yin's parents' house on July 17, 2005) Jilin City Police Department: 51 Beijing Road, Jilin City, 132084 Liu Peizhu, general director: 86-432-2497117 (Office), 86-4322-586707 (Home) Jiang Jichang, deputy general director: 86-4322451641 (Office), 86-432-2409601 (Home) Han Weimin, deputy general director: 86-4322488017 (Office), 86-432-2054088 (Home) Yue Zhongtian, deputy general director: 86-4322497666 (Office), 86-432-2036988 (Home) Yu Wei, deputy general director: 86-432-2449668 (Office), 86-432-2576789 (Home) Yu Zeli, deputy general director: 86-432-2459093 (Office), 86-432-2031599 (Home) Ren Enze, director, office of politics: 86-432-2489778 (Office), (86-432-2409183 (Home) Li Jishan, chief commander: 86-432-2409207 (Office), 86-432-2583833 (Home) General Office: 86-432-2409445, 86-432-2409448
More on Jilin City National Security Department:
Yang Zhicai, general director: 86-432-2503201 (Office), 86-432-4661118 (Home) Li Guangchen, deputy general director: 86-432-2503202 (Office), 86-4324-660118 (Home) Leng Yue, deputy general director: 86-432-2503203 (Office), 86-432-4678996 (Home) Zhou Shaoming, deputy general director: 86-432-2503204 (Office), 86-432-4689396 (Home) Wu Yunhong, deputy general director: 86-432-2503205 (Office), 86-432-2421588 (Home) Liu Guohua, deputy general director: 86-432-2503206 (Office), 86-432-4657120 (Home) Huo Yufeng, deputy general director: 86-432-2503207 (Office), (86-432-2503433 (Home) General Office, 86-432-2503455, 86-432-2503490
Jilin City People's Reception Office:
Fu Yumin, general director: 86-432-2049685 (Office), 86-432-4639799 (Home) Liu Pisheng, deputy general director: 010-63033096 (Office), 86-432-4843805 (Home) Zhu Guangli, deputy general director: 86-432-2058662 (Office), 86-432-4859227 (Home) Zou Jianguo, deputy general director : 86-432-2026221 (Office), 86-432-4686196 (Home) Tong Tieshi, deputy general director : 86-432-2026220 (Office), 86-432-4851377 (Home) General Office, 86-432-2049647
Jilin City 610 Office:
Yang Zhongping, director: 86-432-2010606 (Office), 86-432-2064639 (Home) He Yuxi, deputy director: 86-432-2010611 (Office), 86-432-2022509 (Home) Li Zhimin, deputy director: 86-432-2010613 (Office), 86-432-4682378 (Home) General Office, 86-432-2010607
Jilin Province Jilin Forest Police Department: Hongxing Building, Taoyuan Road, Jilin City, 132018 Fu Jian, deputy general director: 86-432-2432927 (Office), 86-432-4868599 (Home) Zhou Lianchi, deputy general director: 86-432-2432925 (Office), 86-432-2449616 (Home) Shao Yuwen, deputy general director: 86-432-2437169 (Office), 86-432-2059376 (Home) General Office: 86-432-2432927, 86-432-2432926 Jilin City Intermediate Court: 5 Songjiang East Road, Jilin City, 132002 Li Xueming, chief judge: 86-432-2480750 (Office), 86-432-6186887 (Home) Sun Baoshan, head of disciplinary committee: 86-432-2481161 (Office), 86-432-6916668 (Home) (General Office) 86-432-2481076
Jilin Province People's Prosecution House, Jilin Forestry Branch House: Building 13, Jiefangdadao, Jilin City, 132041 Zhang Zhongjie, chief prosecutor: 86-432-2026372 (Office), 86-432-2037992 (Home) Han Keshen, deputy chief prosecutor: 86-432-2055191 (Office), 86-432-4648652 (Home) General Office: 86-432-2015899

Chinese Communists Still Forcing Abortions on Parents

2006-06-24T10:00:00.000-05:00

Though this woman was not a Falun Gong practitioner, it does not matter. These heinous crimes against humanity should be checked and the wrong doers should be punished.

It is not appropriate for a government to force a woman to have an abortion, particularly in the way it was done here:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-6-22/43051.html

Though absolutely horrible, this is nothing compared to the torture inflicted upon Falun Gong practitioners which you can read about here

2006-06-09T19:26:00.000-05:00

Many people have been shocked by the information revealed by the Epoch Times and Clearwisdom websites. The reality is that you can go to China and get an organ in three days.

Here in the United States the wait time can be over a year.

Why can China offer organs to people in only 3 days?

The reason is that they have a plentiful supply of prisoners of conscience (people who have done nothing wrong but are being held against their will for political purposes or because the Chinese Communist Party does not like their free thoughts and ideas and does not want other people to have them either)

These prisoners, many of whom are Falun Gong practitioners are held in labor camps and/or hospitals and are being used for their organs. The organs are taken while they are still alive.

Read this story:

Organ harvesting - witnesses

Now this is very sick and perverse. The Chinese Communist Party is pure evil. You can read their history. You can read the 9 Ping or commentaries in both English and Chinese and you will see for yourself what has been going on in China for the last sixty years since the Communist Party took over.

Resources : English Epoch Times

Clearwisdom

Falun Info site

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Organ Harvesting in Chinese Death Camps Discussed at Auschwitz Forum

2006-05-10T23:58:00.000-05:00

Organ Harvesting in Chinese Death Camps Discussed at Auschwitz Forum
By Jan Jekielek
Epoch Times Staff on assignment in Poland
May 10, 2006

AUSCHWITZ: Professor Sen Nieh, surrounded by three panelists and panel
moderator, speaks at the "Never Again: Appeal to the World" forum discussing
illegal organ harvesting in death camps in China, held in Auschwitz, Poland
on May 9, 2006. (Jan Jekielek/The Epoch Times)

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AUSCHWITZThere is compelling evidence of widespread illegal organ
harvesting in China, said a panel of human rights advocates from the United
States, Israel, Australia, and Poland, at The Epoch Times -sponsored "Never
Again: Appeal to the World" Forum in Auschwitz, Poland on May 9. Panelists
speaking at the Center for Dialogue and Prayer, also called for an urgent
independent international inquiry into the allegations, to stop a possible
accelerated slaughter of camp inmates in advance of a new Chinese law
restricting organ harvesting from prisoners.

"The numbers just don't add up," said Dr. Jianmei Yu, Project Leader of
Pre-Clinical Research Collaboration at the US Iomai Corporation. An
"unexplained" organ bank is the only way to account for a large disparity
between Beijing's published numbers of executions, and the orders of
magnitude-larger numbers of transplants advertised by organ transplant
centers in China.

Massive Organ Bank

Chinese Deputy Minister of Health Huang Jiefu admitted in November 2005 that
95 percent of organ transplants in China come from executed death row
prisoners, though other Chinese authorities have recently denied this
practice.

However, in just one of the over 400 hospitals performing organ transplants
in China, Tianjin Orient Organ Transplant Center, more organ transplants are
performed than could reasonably come from the sum of all executions across
China, said Dr. Jianmei.

NEVER AGAIN: The Chinese panelists at the "Never Again: Appeal to the World"
forum on organ harvesting death camps in China walk through the infamous
"Work Shall Set You Free" gate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and
Museum, on May 9, 2006. (Jan Jekielek/The Epoch Times)

After initial allegations of an organ harvesting death camp in Sujiatun,
Shenyang Province surfaced last March, the Chinese communist regime waited
for three weeks before denying the charges. Then, on the following day, it
announced a new law that would restrict future organ harvesting from
prisoners. Chinese insiders have suggested that the law could be a message
to those involved in illegal organ harvesting to close up shop, because of
increased international attention.

The two sources exposing Sujiatun have said that the organs were taken
almost exclusively from incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners. Panelist Ms.
Zhizhen Dai, whose husband was captured, tortured, and killed by Chinese
authorities in 2001 because he practiced Falun Gong, urged the world to act
to stop the torture and slaughter of innocent people.

Journalists calling various organ transplant centers around China in late
March and early April discovered many hospitals were urging prospective
patients to come in as quickly as possible for their transplants, as fewer
organs would be available in the near future. This led investigators to fear
the worst: That people are being slaughtered for their organs at an
accelerated pace before the new rules come into effect.

PAIN LINGERS: Ms. Zhizhen Dai, panelist at the "Never Again: Appeal to the
World" forum discussing illegal organ harvesting in death camps in China,
speaks of the 2001 torture and murder of her husband at the hands of Chinese
authorities. Her daughter Fadu naps in her arms. The forum was held in
Auschwitz, Poland on May 9, 2006. (Jan Jekielek/The Epoch Times)

Victims of Genocide Speak Out

Israeli panelists brought with them a petition signed by over 10,000 Jews
urging the discussion of Chinese organ harvesting death camps specifically
in Auschwitz.

They included Larisa Vilsker, whose father was one of two members of her
Polish Jewish family who survived the holocaust.

"My whole existence and consciousness would not accept or believe that this
phenomenon can still happen," she said, speaking about learning of the
recent evidence of organ harvesting in China.

"Hundreds of thousands of people are submitted to harvesting their internal
organs for saleI see it as my moral obligation to call, with your
assistance, to the international community, to expose the heart of such evil
quickly."

INTERESTED: Dr. Jianmei Yu speaks to a captivated audience of over 20 Polish
congressmen and senators at the "Law and Justice" Party club in the Sejm,
the Polish Parliament in Warsaw, Poland on May 9, 2006. (Jan Jekielek/The
Epoch Times)

Engage the People

Professor Sen Nieh, President of The Epoch Times Washington, DC Bureau,
spoke of political and social instabilities in China today, of an enormous
inequality between the affluent and the poor, and of the growing phenomenon
of communist cadres in China quitting the Chinese Communist Party.

"The party is like a shiny red apple on the outside, but totally rotten at
the core," he said, suggesting that the world in engage the Chinese people,
as opposed to the Chinese regime, which in his view does not represent them
at all.

Following the conference, the panel toured the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
and Museum, and then left for Warsaw to present their findings at a meeting
in the Sejm, the Polish Parliament, with over 20 Polish congressmen and
senators.

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http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-5-10/41389.html

Links on the Organ Harvesting Atrocities in China

2006-04-24T00:45:00.000-05:00

From Clearwisdom:

http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/4/23/72322.html

Washington Times: Nobles: Dr. Wang Wenyi, for welcoming the Chinese president to America the democratic way

International Community's Investigation Should Target All Prisons And Labor Camps in China

The Epoch Times:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/211,111,,1.html

Faluninfo.net

Falun Gong Issues Open Letter to President Bush on Eve of Hu Jintao Visit

US. State Department Press Release on Organ Harvesting

2006-04-17T02:26:00.000-05:00

*China: Reports of Concentration Camp in Northeast China (Taken Question) *
266 words
14 April 2006
State Department Press Releases And Documents English

Copyright (c) 2006 Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASES

Taken Question

Office of the Spokesman

Washington, DC

April 14, 2006

Question Taken at Daily Press Briefing of April 14, 2006

China: Reports of Concentration Camp in Northeast China

Question: What information can you provide regarding a reported
concentration camp in China where *Falun Gong* practitioners were jailed
and their organs harvested?

Answer: We are aware of the allegations and have taken these charges
seriously. The Department and our Embassy in Beijing, as well as our
Consulate General in Shenyang, have actively sought to determine the
facts of the matter. Officers and staff from our embassy in Beijing and
Consulate in Shenyang have visited the area and the specific site
mentioned in these reports on two separate occasions. In these visits
the officers were allowed to tour the entire facility and grounds and
found no evidence that the site is being used for any function other
than as a normal public hospital.

We have raised these reports with the Chinese government and urged it to
investigate these allegations. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
spokesperson has publicly denied there is any basis for the allegations.

Independent of these specific allegations, we remain concerned over
China's repression of *Falun Gong* practitioners. We are also concerned
by reports of organ harvesting. We have raised these concerns both in
our annual Human Rights Report and in discussions with the Chinese
government, both in Washington and in Beijing.

2006/381

Released on April 14, 2006

Office of State Department Public Communication Division, 202-647-6575

Harvesting Organs from Live Falun Gong Practitioners - This is absolutely, undeniably wrong

2006-03-20T02:28:00.000-06:00

[From the Epoch Times]

Insider Reveals All at Sujiatun Are Falun Gong Practitioners
Subjects of live cornea removal are mainly the elderly or children
The Epoch Times Mar 19, 2006

The Epoch Times has conducted another interview with the witness who came forward several days ago to reveal details regarding the Sujiatun concentration camp in Northeast China. In this interview the witness revealed that her ex-husband was one of the main surgeons in the concentration camp. He is a brain surgeon, and was mainly in charge of cornea removal. Because of the horrifying character of live organ removal and the burning of corpses, the witness and her family have had destructive life experiences. Every time she recalls events in Sujiatun, she endures indescribable pain.

The witness said that her ex-husband had a cell phone specifically for this type of business. No matter when and where, as soon as the cell phone rang, he would go to perform the operation. During the 2 years of working at Sujiatun, he did several cornea removal operations per day.

Her ex-husband told her that those detained in the Sujiatun concentration camp were all Falun Gong practitioners. For others, even prisoners sentenced to death, organ removals could not be done without proper paperwork and procedures. Only for Falun Gong practitioners, due to the central Communist Party policy that the deaths of practitioners are "counted as suicide," the hospital can detain and remove organs from them live without any procedures. Every surgeon knew they were Falun Gong practitioners. They were told that doing such things to Falun Gong practitioners were not crimes. Instead, they were "cleaning" for the Chinese Communist Party. Those on the operation table were either mentally destroyed or had lost consciousness. Major targets of cornea removal were the elderly and children.

A reader from Mainland China called the Epoch Times New York office Saturday and told us that: a celebrity in China had a liver transplant. The liver belonged to a Falun Gong practitioner. This reader also revealed that the General Hospital of the Army and Police Force in Beijing still stores organs of Falun Gong practitioners for high-ranking officials and celebrities. He said that he obtained this information from a relative of this celebrity.

According to recent reports on the Minghui web site, the Sujiatun Concentration Camp might not be the only concentration camp in China. In 2000, the police of Sanhe City in Hebei Province and the Beijing Office of Sichuan said to Falun Gong practitioners: "You don't tell us your names. We will send you to very faraway concentration camps. Nobody will know you are there." "There are concentration camps in Northeast China and Xinjiang."

The following is the translation of the conversation between the Epoch Times reporter and the witness:

Epoch Times: How could the Sujiatun Concentration Camp remain so secret?

Answer : Because several people share the profit. So they won't tell others. This room here can hold at least 100 people. You now, when Falun Gong practitioners are detained, they are not allowed any private space. All are packed together. Maybe one goes to the toilet and comes back; one will not find any space any more. Many Falun Gong practitioners were detained in a one-story residential house in the hospital. This house was dismantled in 2003. We guessed that there was an unknown basement. A living room of a regular U.S. house can easily hold 100 people. Our hospital is very large. They will not admit there was once that one-story residential house. They might say that it was built for peasant workers or the homeless.

ET: Do you think Chi Mingyu, the head of the Sujiatun hospital, knew about this?

A : I think he should know.

ET: This is a concentration camp in a public location?

A : It's semi-public. Everyone has heard of this hospital. It's quite famous. However, people who don't have heart or thrombi diseases usually won't come to the hospital. So it's not an entirely public location either.

Sujiatun is a suburban district of Shenyang. It is like a rural area. Whether other hospitals in the Sujiatun District did the same thing, I don't know. Staff in the public health system can rotate within the system freely.

We found that supplies in the hospital suddenly increased. We guessed: what are so many people coming for? I commuted to work by a shuttle. We didn't care so much. We also didn't know whether Falun Gong was good or bad.

ET: How did you know about the live organ removal?

A : During the 2003 Chinese New Year, people visited each other for the New Year. For example, they gathered to play Chinese chess, or Mahjong. When they chatted, they talked a little bit about this kind of thing. I knew that my family had easy money, but didn't know the source. Later on, my ex-husband told me about this.

My ex-husband is a quite talented brain surgeon. Many heads of hospitals wanted him to work at their hospitals. It was easy to use him. He's smart. He knew how to obtain money.

When he joined the Sujiatun hospital, he was an intern doctor. Very soon, he was promoted to surgeon. Starting from 2003, I noticed that he was often absent-minded. For example, he watched TV holding a sofa pillow. When I shut off the TV, he would not notice.

At the beginning, my ex-husband simply said he wanted to find another job. I was very surprised: Why? We are having a good life here at Sujiatun. Gradually, he started sweating at night and having nightmares. When he would wake up, the bed sheet would be soaked with his sweat in a human shape. I asked him whether his job was too stressful. Sometimes he had long discussions with my father in our reading room. He said he wanted to change jobs and asked my father to help him. However, for some reason, nobody in our family helped him switch his job.

Finally, I couldn't tolerate any more. I asked him. Then he told me this. My friend witnessed Falun Gong practitioners detained in Sujiatun. Everyone knew that a lot of Falun Gong practitioners were sent from Masanjia and Dabei prisons. We didn't mind thinking about it. A lot of people who work at Sujiatun are from families of high-ranking cadres. We have formed this habit since very young: Do not ask anything that's not relevant to us.

The brother of one of my classmates went overseas in 2002 shortly after he participated in this business. He left after performing a few operations.

ET: What kind of operations did your ex-husband do?

A : He did cornea removal. At the beginning, he didn't know whether those people had granted permission. People who were on operation tables were not conscious. They were alive. He knew it after performing a few. How could there be so many people who donated their corneas? He said that the person who asked him to do this kind of thing told him: you are already on this boat. Killing one is murder. Killing several is also murder. He said that later on he also knew that the people were alive. Where the organs and corpse were sent, he didn't ask.

Now he has gotten his retribution. He is even very nervous when driving. He cannot live a normal life.

By 2003, many people in the public health bureau knew about it. Not only family members knew, even some outsiders knew about it.

My ex-husband told me, those patients who needed kidneys were in other hospitals. The kidney would be removed in the Sujiatun hospital. He doesn't know much about the aftermath. Maybe corpses were sent to Sujiatun crematorium or the incinerator.

A person would not have cornea removal only. Very possibly, other organs would be removed from this person as well. This was no different than murder. When surgeons deviate a little bit, their knives are killing people.

I divorced because of this. If it had been ex-marital affairs, maybe I could still tolerate it. The fact that he could tell me this indicated that he had a little conscience left. If he hadn't told me, I wouldn't have believed it. He told me this with his own mouth. Nobody would say that he did something like this.

ET: Were there any other surgeons?

A: There are other surgeons. My ex-husband is a brain surgeon. It's not possible that he does kidney removal.

ET: How did you now that all detainees at Sujiatun were Falun Gong practitioners?

A : They are all Falun Gong practitioners. For other people, they have relatives. Relatives would come to ask for family members. Only when Falun Gong practitioners are sent here, their families don't know. Masanjia and Dabei prisons detain a lot of Falun Gong practitioners. Now there are not that many any more. Everyday people are released. Where were these Falun Gong practitioners sent?

Those Falun Gong practitioners who were detained in Sujiatun, they had refused to sign a letter saying that they wouldn't practice Falun Gong any more. Many protested via hunger strike. They were very weak due to not having food.

Everyone was given a piece of paper. If you wouldn't practice Falun Gong, put your fingerprint on the paper, you would be released immediately. Once a person went out of where the practitioners were detained, the people inside didn't know where they went. They thought that these people were released. Or they were told that these people were taken to other hospitals for treatment. Those who were taken out were usually first beaten until they lost consciousness. Then anesthetic would be injected.

ET: According to the official web site of the Shenyang City legal system, the Sujiatun hospital organized in 2000 all Chinese communist party cadres to study the decision to persecute Falun Gong.

A : I didn't know about this. Sometimes my ex-husband lived in the hospital dorm. He usually didn't mention that kind of things to me. He would simply call home and say he was busy, and then he wouldn't come home.

My ex-husband knew they were Falun Gong practitioners. Every surgeon knew it. At that time, they were told that persecuting Falun Gong was not counted as a crime. Instead, it was "cleaning" for the Chinese communist party. Those on the operation table were either mentally destroyed or had lost consciousness. Major targets of cornea removal were the elderly and children.

Many Falun Gong practitioners were detained in a one-story residential house in the hospital. This house was dismantled in 2003. We guessed that there was an unknown basement. They will not admit there was once the one-story residential house. They might say that it was built for peasant workers or the homeless.

My ex-husband was also worried that someday he would be killed for the purpose of destroying evidence. So he went abroad. Other people knew he wouldn't dare to speak it out.

ET: Over the years, no relatives came to ask for family members?

A : During 2001 and 2003, only one peasant came to ask whether his family members were detained here. It was all secret. Nobody knew. When people are arrested, there was no paperwork. When people are released, there was no paperwork either.

Persecution is persecution. It is against humanity. As a Chinese, I feel quite sad. This is Chinese killing Chinese. It's unlike the slaughter in Nanjing when the Japanese invaded China. This is killing our own fellow people. No matter whether they practice Falun Gong or not, they are our fellow people. This is very brutal.

ET: Did those who were part of it feel that they did wrong things?

A : Between life and money, some people choose money. After I knew this, I told my ex-husband: "Your entire life is ruined. You will not be able to hold surgical knives any more." When you perform an operation for people, you will remember things you did in the past. I am not the surgeon. Even so, whenever I talk about this, I'm trembling and afraid.

Later, after my ex-husband completed procedures for going abroad, he had to explain to me why he had to leave. I told him that you could only choose things prior to this [live organ removal], but not anything after this.

I don't practice Falun Gong. I am not so noble. I did not come to the U.S. from so far-away to expose this to the world. My friend told me to travel to the U.S. to cheer me up. He told me that America is a country that emphasizes human rights. It's a free country. He said that you could speak out your experiences here. People think that I divorced because my ex-husband wanted to go aboard, and I didn't want to go. Others were not happy with me. They asked me why I divorced my ex-husband, and that he was such a good man.

Now we expose this to the world. At least a portion of people there can still survive. I don't care if they admit it or not. Exposing it will deter these evil actions.

I think for those who have read this news, if they have missing relatives, they should gather together and demand an explanation from relevant government agencies. When people disappear, they are either dead or crazy. Otherwise, they will find a way to send a message home.

The Shenyang Morning News reported on the 11th that a peasant worker was cremated without a family signature. The person is already cremated. Who knows whether the organs have already been removed?

I saw that there was a confession from a spy. There will be a confession from a doctor. He doesn't have to reveal his name. However, he can spread the information. Anyone who has done this kind of things feels the burden of guilt.

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The Sujiatun Concentration Camp (The Epoch Times)Brief Introduction of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp

Sujiatun is one of the nine districts governed by Shenyang City. It is a satellite city 15 kilometers to the South of Shenyang City. The Sujiatun Concentration Camp is also called National Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Thrombus Treatment Center. The address is 49 Xuesong Road，Sujiatun District，Shenyang City，Liaoning Province，China． It is also called Liaoning Thrombus Treatment Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine．It was built in 1998.

Related Articles:
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Exposing Shocking Horrors Inside Sujiatun Concentration Camp

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Chinese Death Camp Selling Prisoners' Organs, Says Report

Canadians rally in Ottawa, call for swift action
By Brian Marple and Cindy Chan
Epoch Times Washington, D.C. and Ottawa Staff Mar 17, 2006

STANDING ON GUARD: The Sujiatun concentration camp, implicated in China's state-run organ trade and in the systematic killing of Falun Gong practitioners, has prompted demonstrators to call for Western governments to intervene. (Matthew Hildebrand/The Epoch Times)
[High-resolution image ] A U.S.-based human rights organization revealed on Wednesday the presence of a large harvested organ market near the site of a concentration camp in northeastern China.

The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) wrote in a report that the Sujiatun concentration camp, which a journalist recently said held over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners in captivity, was connected to a local hospital, and had become a supplier of organs to that hospital and other hospitals in Shenyang City by harvesting the organs of the detained Falun Gong practitioners.

The concentration camp, which is underground and was built upon the infrastructure of an aerial defence facility, is directly connected through a back exit to a hospital in Sujiatun (which is both a district in Shenyang City and the name of the concentration camp). The camp is heavily guarded and has its own supply system, including underground shops.

The organs are harvested while the victims are still alive, and then sent to the hospitals for use, the report says.

The report comes on the heels of an interview given to The Epoch Times by the Chinese investigative journalist who first revealed the existence of the Sujiatun concentration camp. Practitioners detained there have their organs harvested and their bodies cremated, and none has ever come back out, he says.

Doctors in the connecting hospital, who witnessed the harvesting procedures, were psychologically traumatized, says WOIPFG spokesman Kevin Yang. Some, he says, have quit or taken their own lives.

"They described [Sujiatun as], 'that place is like hell'."

Yang says WOIPFG investigators had called Sujiatun District and Shenyang City hospitals, posing as prospective organ buyers, and were shocked at how soon they were told they could get organs.

"[We] were so surprised—the answer is probably about two days, the longest around two months," said Yang. "That's impossible if they don't have anyone there to kill, because the death penalty [inmates] in China [are] not that many. It's impossible for the patient to get that in just two days."

Canadians Urge Action

Meanwhile, news of the Sujiatun concentration camp and state-run organ trade has caused a stir in the West. In Ottawa, approximately 200 demonstrators rallied on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to call for immediate Canadian government action to stop the secret concentration camp, which event organizers describe as reminiscent of Auschwitz.

The Falun Dafa Association of Canada has written to the Prime Minister urging Canada to condemn this camp and the Chinese communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong and to speak out at the United Nations to mobilize an investigation and rescue.

"This kind of mass killing is a challenge to the basic human nature of us all," said Association President Li Xun. "If we are aware of this extent of evil and we choose to do nothing, we all hold responsibility in these crimes by accepting them through our silence."

Brian McAdam of China Insight echoed this sentiment. "China has dangled billions of dollars of trade, seducing many countries into ignoring human rights issues," he said. He asked the new Canadian government to "re-examine the former cozy relationship with this blood-soaked regime, which has been responsible for the deaths of an estimated 70 million people."

Many of the rally participants had begun a 24-hour hunger strike appeal early Wednesday, and 15 were Falun Gong practitioners on a 72-hour hunger strike, each giving a statement of their personal reasons.

"Some of my fellow practitioners in China have disappeared. It's very possible that they have been taken to Sujiatun and harmed," said 73-year-old Huang Yunqin.

Before coming to Canada in 2001, 66-year-old Qiao Shiyue had been imprisoned in a Chinese labour camp for one year for practising Falun Gong. She noted that she wanted her hunger strike to expose the "barbarity, tyranny, and evil of the Chinese Communist Party and let all people clearly see its true face."

Tian Meiling described her experience in China. "In 2001 my daughter's neighbour's entire family, all Falun Gong practitioners, was arrested. Their son has since disappeared, and to this day we don't know what has happened to him."

Over 2,800 practitioners have been verified as tortured to death, the Falun Dafa Association says, with expert sources as early as 2003 putting the death toll in the range of 10,000. Hundreds of thousands have been illegally detained, and many remain missing. Among them is Zhang Yunhe, sister of Canadian Michelle Zhang. She was detained four years ago, and authorities have since denied knowing her whereabouts.

"We know clearly what happened at the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. We can understand what is happening in China now," said Li.

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Another Police Rape

2006-03-08T17:41:00.000-06:00

Serial Rape of Falun Gong Practitioners in Hebei

[FalunHR.org]

...Ms. Liu pleaded with him, saying, "I am thinking for your own good. You shouldn’t do this to me! You are a policeman and must not commit such a crime! This is totally wrong! You are a young man! I am an old woman. Please spare me." He Xuejian ignored her plea...

At around 2:00 p.m., November 25, 2005, a policeman named He Xuejian took Ms. Liu to a room with two beds in it. A very tanned policeman in his early 30's with the nickname Dajun was lying on one of the beds. There was another policeman in his 40's surnamed Wang in the room. He Xuejian savagely beat Ms. Liu as soon as they entered the room, pressed her against a bed and started groping her breasts. He lifted her shirt up and shocked her breasts with a stun baton. While watching the sparks from the stun baton, He Xuejian repeatedly told the others, "This is fun! This is fun!" The policeman surnamed Wang watched and egged him on, "Beat her up! Beat her up good!" Then he left the room. Although Ms. Liu protested and struggled, He Xuejian stripped off her shirt and sat on her stomach, poked at her genitals with his finger and then removed her pants.

During the struggle, Ms. Liu pleaded with him, saying, "I am thinking for your own good. You shouldn’t do this to me! You are a policeman and must not commit such a crime! This is totally wrong! You are a young man! I am an old woman. Please spare me." He Xuejian ignored her plea, took out his penis and penetrated her. During the rape, He Xuejian repeatedly slapped Ms. Liu’s face and choked her. Ms. Liu screamed out for help, but no one outside of the room responded.

Afterwards, He Xuejian put on his pants and made lewd comments. Ms. Liu burst into tears. While she was leaving the room, she saw that He Xuejian was taking the other practitioner, Ms. Han Yuzhi to the room. He Xuejian also raped her. After the rape, the police forced Ms. Liu to mop the floor, and clean the rooms and the office. According to Ms. Liu, her legs were weak and she was in shock from the horrible rape. After Ms. Han Yuzhi was raped, she was also forced to mop the floors and wash police cars.

The rapes happened while the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture was in Beijing conducting an investigation of torture in China.

More persecution, including rape

2006-03-05T01:09:00.000-06:00

More on the persecution:

(Clearwisdom.net)

(RAPE )- Zhongba Forced Labor Camp Officials in Guizhou Province

A Dafa disciple with a last name of Zhou, 28 years old, was illegally detained at the Zhongba Women's Forced Labor Camp, in Guizhou Province. Police team leader Gu Xingying said that supervisors were coming for an inspection so he blocked all detainees inside the iron door, not allowing them to go out. Only Zhou was locked up in the guard office on the first floor for an "intensive assault." After a while, three men went into the office on the first floor from outside. After about forty or fifty minutes, the three men walked out laughing. The first asked the second, "Wasn't that fun?" The second replied, "Not when she tried to resist." The third said, "We raped her, but nobody will dare to do anything to us.
The "inspection" finished after these people left. Later, another two supervisors came to do an inspection. Zhou was locked up in the "intensive assault unit" on the third floor. Gu Xingying brought in two people from the outside again. They had inmates handcuff Zhou's hands and feet to the metal bed, and proceeded to rape her.

Persecution of Practitioners from Xinhua Forced Labor Camp, Mianyang, Sichuan Province

Xinhua Labor Camp in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province is an evil place especially designed for persecuting male practitioners from Sichuan Province. Since July 20, 1999, countless Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted at the camp. They have endured many different tortures such as serious beatings, being bound by a police rope, shocked by electric batons, beaten by spiked batons, sitting on the tiger bench, standing facing the wall for long periods of time, being hung up, two practitioners shackled together, wearing cotton coats in the summer, being forced to do long-term labor without sleep, being force fed, being forced to take drugs, being injected with unknown drugs, being locked in a small cell, having a dirty cloth stuffed into one's mouth, not being permitted to talk, not being permitted to move, and having one's forced labor sentence illegally extended......

Guards Li Changjun and Zhang Xiaogang called over 10 security guards to come in and hold Mr. Jing Changxu down so they could shock him with electric batons. They also knocked him down on the ground, stepped on his back, tied his legs up with police rope, and forced him to take off his clothes and wear only a single layer for several hours in the chilly winter. Even now Mr. Jing still has the marks on his face where he was shocked and carries bruises on his neck and his chest.

When practitioner Mr. Ma Zhigang finished his labor term and was about to go home, the police officers asked him, "Is Falun Dafa good? Will you practice it after you go home?" Mr. Ma replied, "Falun Dafa is good. I will practice it after I go home!" The police then prohibited him from leaving the prison and tortured him for two more months.

Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhu E and Her Family Relentlessly Persecuted

The abusers at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City tortured Ms. Zhu savagely. They forced her to squat, stand and "fly an airplane" (1). Other gross abuses included forcing her to sit in a double-crossed leg position with her hands behind her and forbidding her from moving or using the restroom for three days. They made her sit in this uncomfortable and painful position for more than eight hours each day, until she was in agony. The abusers frequently hit her with bamboo planks, rubber hoses, and wooden sticks.

Ms. Zhu was also handcuffed to the door of the solitary confinement cell for ten hours until her arm and hand were so swollen she could not make a fist. Electric shock is commonplace, which often resulted in large blisters and scorched flesh all over her body. In July 2000, guard Zhang Guimei disfigured her face with electric baton(s). Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu felt her face was on fire, and she could not sit or stand at ease. She could not sleep at night due to pain, so she sat up and held her face.
Ms. Zhu went on a hunger strike many times to protest the persecution and demanded her unconditional release. The frequent force-feedings made her nose and mouth bleed, often putting her in a state of near-suffocation. This made her cough and vomit blood long after the force-feeding.

Do You Think the Chinese Communist Party Stops at its own Borders?

2006-02-09T11:10:00.000-06:00

So you think the Chinese Communist Party is content to only
persecute within its own borders? Yes? Wrong answer.

The Chinese Communist Party will stop at nothing in order to
eliminate Falun Gong. Why? Falun Gong is a peaceful
meditation practice. Why are they so scared? Because their
totalitarian tactics are not working with many Falun Gong
practitioners and this makes them worried.

They also fear being exposed for who they really are. All
the lawsuites that are popping up have got them really
worried.

It's time for the Chinese Communist Party to stop its secret
agenda of torture and killing to get what it wants. Its
time for the CCP to live up to its moral obligations not to
torture and kill human beings. Its time for the CCP to
change.

Falun Gong is a meditation practice, it has nothing to do
with politics but when you are being tortured and killed you
do have a right to speak up. That is not politics that is
telling people what is really happening.

This is from:
http://faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9349

Falun Gong Techie Beaten and Bound in Atlanta Home; Computers Stolen

FDI Asks U.S. Government to Crack Down on Chinese Communist Agents

Dr. Peter Yuan Li hours after being beaten and bound in his Atlanta home by assailants who took only computers and documents, leaving other valuables untouched. Dr. Li says the assailants were agents of the Chinese Communist regime aiming to thwart his efforts to expose human rights violations in China.

NEW YORK (FDI) – The Falun Dafa Information Center has learned that Falun Gong practitioner Peter Yuan Li was assaulted and robbed by armed Asian men yesterday in his Atlanta home. Li is an information technology specialist who has been active in Falun Gong human rights advocacy over the past six years.

Around noon yesterday an Asian man, feigning a water delivery, appeared on Li’s doorstep. Before Li knew it, two men had forced their way in, pulled out a gun and knife, and wrapped him up in a blanket, attempting to suffocate him. They then used duct tape to cover his mouth, eyes, and ears, and an extension cord to tie up his arms and legs. The men beat him severely about the head and face, probably with the butt of the gun, Li said. He bled profusely. Moments later he heard one to two other men enter his home and one of them spoke Chinese (Mandarin). Half an hour later, they left. They had overturned his file cabinets and stolen two laptop computers and potentially other important documents, Li says, but no valuables. The wounds on Li’s face required 15 stitches.

“The incident was a deliberate attempt to undermine Li’s technical work against human rights violations in China and to intimidate him,” stated FDI spokesperson Gail Rachlin. A few years ago Li began working as a lead technical specialist with The Epoch Times, a newspaper known best for its highly critical Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which exposes the tyrannical reign of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including the violent suppression of the Falun Gong. Staff members of the paper speak of numerous attempts by the Chinese government to thwart their efforts. In a February 8 article The Epoch Times stated, “[The incident against Li] breaks new ground in the Chinese Communist regime's campaign against The Epoch Times.”

Of today’s incident, Li noted, “They seemed to be a well-coordinated team” and were “clearly very familiar with tying people up, not like regular people.” “This [happened] because the Chinese communist regime wants to destroy my computers,” Li continued, “But they have gotten it wrong: My computers are highly encrypted. Nor will I be scared.” Li holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton.

“Thousands of us [throughout the U.S.] are having to look over our shoulders, lock our doors, and be wary of our surroundings at all times because agents of a foreign Communist regime may be lurking.”

What happened to Peter Yuan Li is part of a larger pattern of violence perpetrated against Falun Gong activists by Chinese agents in the United States. Congress has recognized the problem and in 2003 passed House Congressional Resolution 304, stating, “over the past 5 years China's diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States.” In 2002, about 50 Falun Gong followers filed a lawsuit in the D.C. district court against two ministries of the People’s Republic of China government, alleging a systematic campaign of criminal activities designed to intimidate, harass, injure, limit, and terrorize U.S. citizens and residents who practice Falun Gong.

Despite Congress’ concerns, the incidents continue. “Congress has recognized the problem, law enforcement has recognized the problem, but what is being done? It’s time our government take concrete action to stop Chinese agents from running around this country and harming Falun Gong practitioners,” stated Gail Rachlin. “Thousands of us are having to look over our shoulders, lock our doors, and be wary of our surroundings at all times because agents of a foreign Communist regime may be lurking. This absolutely has to stop. We’re living in America, not communist China.”

The Falun Dafa Information Center calls upon U.S. law enforcement to investigate this matter. It is an assault on a U.S. resident by agents of the Chinese regime. The Center also calls upon the U.S. federal government to communicate to Chinese consular officials in clear and public terms that there will be zero tolerance for such illicit behavior here in the United States.

Dr. Li is available for interviews: 770-495-3941

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NEWS - Feb. 09, 2006
Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

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Background

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of the Buddha School, consisting of meditation and exercises, with teachings that emphasize living by three principles: truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Originating in China, Falun Gong is now practiced in over 70 countries. With Chinese government estimates of 100 million practicing Falun Gong in China, in July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party-state launched a nationwide, violent campaign to “eradicate” the practice. The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 2,804 deaths and over 44,000 cases of torture (reports / sources). Millions have been detained or sent to forced labor camps.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp: Hung by the Wrists from Steel Wires that Cut to the Bone

2006-01-11T19:45:00.000-06:00

Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp: Practitioners Hung by the Wrists from Steel Wires that Cut to the Bone

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province

(Clearwisdom.net) In the middle of April 2001, authorities at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp brutally persecuted and attempted to violently "transform" all the Dafa practitioners in their custody, and many of them were maimed. In the Number 201 Group, the wardens covered Dafa practitioners' heads with cotton quilts and beat them continuously with wooden clubs and stools. They slashed Dafa practitioners' faces with shoe heels, causing serious injuries to their faces and ears; many practitioners suffered hearing loss. The wardens shocked practitioners on their necks with electron batons, until their necks were so full of holes they looked like hornet's nests. The wardens forcibly tied up the practitioners' arms using steel wire.

Even more appalling, Dafa practitioners were forced to stand on stools, wearing handcuffs and steel wire wrapped around their arms and secured to the ceiling, and then the stools were kicked out from under them. As they hung from the ceiling, the steel wires quickly cut into their arms to the bone, and blood flowed down the wire. If they still refused the so-called "transformation," the wardens would grab the Dafa practitioners and yank them downward with all their strength; many of the practitioners' arms were permanently damaged.

Another torture method they use is to hang Dafa practitioners up so they can barely touch the floor, and cruelly beat and kick them. Their socks are removed, and if they try to stand up, the wardens burn their toes with cigarettes, which immediately begin to blister.

In the Number 204 Group, the wardens handcuffed Dafa practitioners by either one or both hands to the security grills on the windows, where they hung with their feet off the floor for several days. There were two or three people for each Dafa practitioner, keeping watch to make sure they didn't sleep. Many of the Dafa practitioners' legs became swollen, and their fingers were numb.

Many groups at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp brutally force-feed Dafa practitioners who go on hunger strikes. Criminals hold practitioners down on their beds and shove common plastic tubing into their noses. When they insert a tube they push very hard, after they put the tube in they abruptly yank it out again, revealing the bloody tube. They repeat the process several times. Even worse, they often push the tube in more than 40 centimeters, until it comes out the mouth. After the tube is inserted, they force-feed the practitioners with cold, high-density salt water. The practitioners who've been subjected to these force-feedings have suffered diarrhea for many days.

In the women's group, the wardens use electric batons to shock Dafa practitioners who refuse to be "transformed." Some weren't allowed to sleep for a month after this torture.

The Number 202 Group leaders mainly persecute Dafa practitioners using psychological methods, but sometimes they use violence. Once, a perpetrator used a wooden club to strike Dafa practitioners in the back of the head. Liu Lei is the division leader of the Number 2 Group at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp, and Wei Mingxi was the group leader. Wei Mingxi mainly used torture to persecute Dafa practitioners.

Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp

Telephone: 86-311-7752350, 86-311-7753569, 86-311-7776422, 86-311-7763488, 86-311-7776421, 86-311-7752749

Director Zhao Yunlong

Second Group address: Beijiao north Zhaolingpu Village; postal code 050061
Telephone Exchange: 86-311-7776345, 86-311-7777689
Group leader Zhao Zhiqian: extension 628, 663
Division 2 Leader Bian Shuqiang (very vicious): 13603113288 (Cell), ext. division 2
Warden: Zhang Li 86-13932199787 (Cell)
Warden: Dong Xingguo 86-311-7777689 extension 633
Director of Administration, Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp, Cao Jun: 86-311-7754007 extension 207, 203

Posting date: 1/11/2006
Original article date: 1/11/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/1/2/117799.html

Crimes against Women

2005-12-28T13:58:00.000-06:00

Heinous Crimes against Women Falun Gong Practitioners at the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp

(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to forced labor. When I was sent to Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp I saw the words, "Rescue, Educate and Influence [through love and care]," the slogan the labor camp brandishes. While being held at Division 3, however, I experienced various tortures in this hell on earth! The guards use base and cruel methods to "reform" Falun Gong practitioners. The administrators of the labor camp don't hold back on their barbarism.

Practitioners held in Group 3 are elderly and weak, yet they are forced to work between 15 hours and 17 hours a day. They are not allowed to take a break, even if their legs and feet are severely swollen. Some group heads order drug-addicted inmates to torture the practitioners. They ordered three such inmates to beat one practitioner. I get chills down my spine when I recall the brutal scenes at that labor camp. I want to expose a few cases so people can recognize the true, dark face of the labor camp.

Some practitioners suffered from high blood pressure and severe heart disease and had difficulty walking due to the conditions at the labor camp. They were unable to run or perform the morning exercises that the guards require. They were dragged upstairs where two inmates twisted their arms and a third inmate kicked the practitioners' private areas with hard-soled shoes until blood dripped and the practitioners were in extreme pain.

One 47-year-old practitioner was dragged upstairs by inmates because she was not sitting up straight. The inmates stripped her naked and tied her up with a rope. They stuffed her vagina with dirty dishcloths until they could not fit in anymore. Then they kicked her private area and stabbed her vagina with a toothbrush. The inmates use various means to torture the practitioners, encouraged by the division heads. One practitioner refused to curse Master or to attack Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. She was stripped naked and hung from a metal window frame. The inmates took turns torturing her. They grabbed her breasts and violently yanked them, until blood dripped from her nipples. They didn't allow her to use the restroom before tying her up; they put feces on a used sanitary napkin, and taped it to her mouth.

A 60-year-old practitioner was numb throughout her body and could not keep up with the group when running in the morning. She was taken upstairs and beaten, but she was not allowed to sleep at night. The next day she was forced to sit on the legs of an upside-down stool for six hours.

Another 60-year-old practitioner was a little slow in responding to a "look to the right" order; she was dragged upstairs and tortured for 40 days. The perpetrators put a quilt over her head and only removed it when she had lost consciousness. There are countless torture cases similar to these.

I call for people of conscience to come and investigate the true situation at the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp. Help stop the brutal persecution there.

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Torture Experiences of a Dafa Practitioner in the Guye District of Tangshan City

(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Mr. Dang Aimin, from the Guye District in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, has been arrested, detained, sentenced to forced labor, subjected to brainwashing and brutally tortured several times since July 20, 1999, merely because he believes in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." He once was almost tortured to death. Presently, 610 Office agents are still detaining him inside the Zhao Mine Hospital for an unlimited time.

In October 2000, Mr. Dang went to Beijing with a dozen other practitioners to appeal for Falun Gong and clarify the truth. Guye Liaison Office officials in Beijing arrested him and took him home. After that, he was held in the Guye Detention Center.

Mr. Dang believed that it was right for him to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and clarify the truth, so he went to Beijing again. Once more he was arrested and deprived of his freedom in the Guye Detention Center, where he was tortured. He held a hunger strike to protest. The guards then ordered criminal detainees to use three-inch-long needles to stab his body and face. He was stabbed over 100 times. He was bleeding badly, yet the guards kept asking, "Do you still practice Falun Gong? If you still do, we will keep stabbing you."

In addition, the guards put him in shackles and handcuffs. Once some criminal detainees covered Mr. Dang tightly with a cotton quilt, and six or seven of them pressed down on him until he could not breathe. The criminal detainees would not let him sleep on a bed. He had to sleep on the ice-cold floor.

Mr. Dang was beaten almost daily in the detention center. Some criminal detainees used a wide toothbrush handle to grind his fingers until his bones were exposed. The scars are still visible. The guards also used shoe soles to hit his buttocks and caused severe injuries. During the hot summer days he was not allowed to take a shower. Hence, the wound on his buttocks became infected and had a bad odor. Afterwards, the scabs were huge and covered a large area.

Dang Aimin was then sentenced to forced labor and imprisoned at the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan. The environment in the labor camp was extremely vicious. First of all, he was subjected to one month of "strictly disciplined" torture and forced to sit on a small stool for 12 hours daily with his back straight. While sitting, he could not move at all. Sitting like this for such a long time, a small move would cause his bones to abrade the skin. A mixture of blood and flesh stuck to his underwear, which caused enormous pain. Scabs would form overnight and be rubbed and broken open again the next day, repeating the process. Dafa practitioners are suffering from such kinds of inhuman atrocities every day.

One day guard Li Xiaozhong found Mr. Dang practicing the Falun Gong exercises. The labor camp then started the "roping" torture. One of the guards gripped Mr. Dang's forehead with his legs, pulled Aimin's arms behind his back and crossed them to the maximum limit. Another guard used a finger-thick nylon rope to tie Mr. Dang's hands up. The rope was forced into his flesh. His shoulders hurt severely, making his shoulders and arms completely numb. He could not raise his arms due to the numbness. The guards then pulled his arms straight and shook them. The more they shook his arms, the more they hurt. After being subjected to this brutal torture three times, people normally vomit, their hearts palpitate, and they get short of breath and pale. Yet, the guards repeated this torture on him seven times.

Ordered by the prison guards, nine prisoners gripped Mr. Dang's hands and used toothbrush handles to grind his fingers until the flesh on his fingers fell off, and the bones were exposed. After that, the prisoners asked him, "Do you still practice Falun Gong?" He said, "Yes!" They then used a rolling pin to grind on his legs until the bones were exposed.

Mr. Dang Aimin was constantly beaten in the labor camp. Once, the guards used electric batons to shock him, and he fainted right away. In addition, he was forced to stand still until his legs turned black.

After ten months, Mr. Dang was reduced to skin and bones as a result of the tortures. He almost died once. After that, the labor camp decided to let his work unit take him back, but the employers would not let him go home. They transferred him to the Zhao Mine Hospital, where he was further persecuted.

According to inside information, while Mr. Dang was in the hospital, the guards put something in his food causing him to have diarrhea. He became very weak after that.

After escaping from the hospital, Mr. Dang went to Beijing again but was once more arrested. Agents from the Zhao Mine 610 Office locked him inside an iron cage. He was tied up. He suffered once again from the "roping" torture carried out by deputy chief Li Xiangpu. He was not given any food or water. Mr. Dang's whole body swelled as a result of the torture. He was unable to eat because he would vomit everything he ate. He was locked inside the cage for more than a month.

The Zhao Mine Police then locked Mr. Dang up inside the Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Center. Once he shouted out, "Falun Dafa is great!" Because of that, police officers Wang Zhijie, Tian Lianfeng and Meng dragged him outside. Wang beat and kicked him, Tian stepped onto his face with leather shoes, and Meng hit his head with a hard plastic club and broke his head open. It kept bleeding. In the winter, Mr. Dang was imprisoned in an empty room. He had to sleep on a piece of newspaper on the floor. Later this piece of newspaper was taken away. On the coldest days of winter, when police officer Tian had layers of clothes on and still felt cold, he forced Mr. Dang, who had on only a sweater, to stand outside in the coldest spot for the entire day.

Mr. Dang also suffered from random beatings by the so-called "aides." He was not allowed to sleep for 24 hours. His every move was restricted, including going to the toilet. At the end of 2003, two guards from the Zhao Mine injured him. Tufts of his hair were pulled out, and his eyes were bruised. His head was full of blisters. He could not stand straight and had to lie on the floor.

Mr. Dang spent 270 days under these appalling conditions. When there was no place to go to appeal, he started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was physically weak. He was later transferred to the Zhao Mine Local Police Station and eventually to the Zhao Mine Hospital.

Mr. Dang's prison sentence expired long ago, but the Communist Party Committee from the Zhao Mine, 610 Office agents, and personnel from the local police station still will not release him. They are detaining him under the guise of providing him with medical treatment in the Zhao Mine Hospital.

Zhao Mine Party Committee Deputy Secretary Gao Xiaode

Unemployment Office Party Secretary Chen Zhimin

Head of the Zhao Mine 610 Office Ni Anli

Zhao Mine 610 Office Deputy Head Fu Xiuhua: 86-315-3505539 (Home), 86-315-3051493 (Office)

Public Security Office Deputy Chief Li Xiangpu: 86-315-3506220 (Home)

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Police from Beijing Arrest Family of Four, Ransack Their Home, and Force Landlord to Evict Them

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yandong was arrested by police from Chaoyang District Department in November 2005. The police ransacked her home and forced her landlord to stop renting to her, her husband, and two children. They also told her husband that they would send her to a forced brainwashing center.

On the morning of November 8, 2005, police from the local station deceived Ms. Liu into going there and registering for her rental property. After several hours, during which her family could not reach her on her cell phone, she finally returned with a group of police who ransacked her place without showing any legal documents. The police took away her Falun Dafa books, and some truth clarifying materials, her company-owned computer and printer, and other valuables. One police officer tried to steal a new cell phone that was on the table, but he was stopped by Ms. Liu's colleague.

Ms. Liu Yandong was interrogated many times in the station, but she refused to cooperate with the evil. The police finally let her husband bail her out at around 3 a.m. because her three-month-old baby needed to be nursed.

Ms. Liu's company and rental housing is in the area of Wanjing District under the jurisdiction of the Huajiadi Police Station. Police forced her landlord to kick her out, falsely accusing her of having "committed crimes against the CCP and being engaged in anti-revolutionary activities," so she could never appeal for justice. In order not to bother her landlord, Ms. Liu moved her family of four to her mother's house, and stored her company's property in her friend's house. Her company's business had to be stopped completely.

Soon after she finished moving, a 610 Office member of the Wangjing District Neighborhood Administration told her husband that they were preparing to hold a brainwashing session for her.

Wangjing District Neighborhood Administration address:

225 Building, Nanhudong Garden, Chaoyang District, Beijing, zip code, 100000

610 Office Head Sun's phone number:

86-10-64703110, operator, 86-10-64703114

Instigating Thai Police to Violate Human Rights

2005-12-21T18:29:00.000-06:00

Los Angeles: Practitioners Rally Against the CCP for Instigating Thai Police to Violate Human Rights

(Clearwisdom.net) On December 16, practitioners from Los Angeles delivered a letter to the Thailand Consulate in Los Angeles. The letter strongly protested the incidents on December 10 and 15. Instigated by the Chinese Communist regime, on December 10, Thai police roughly treated the Falun Gong practitioners who were peacefully appealing in front of the Chinese Embassy to Thailand. On December 15, Thai police arrested eight practitioners. Los Angeles practitioners called on the Thai Government not to give in to the pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and not to comply with the totalitarian regime to persecute Falun Gong. In addition, they demanded the immediate release of the detained practitioners and restoration of practitioners' rights to conduct peaceful appeals in front of the Chinese Embassy.

In front of the Thailand Consulate, Los Angeles practitioners protest Thai police violence

In front of the Thai Consulate, practitioners displayed a huge banner which read: "Thailand, Do Not Help the Chinese Communist Regime Persecute Falun Gong." On behalf of Falun Gong practitioners, Dr. Wu Yingnian, associate professor from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), delivered the protest letter and truth-clarifying materials to the Consulate. During his meeting with Consul Som Pop Sermswatsri, Dr. Wu described details of the incident and facts of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. He hoped that the Thai government and people would uphold justice and not help the Chinese Communist regime to persecute Falun Gong. The consul stated that he would pass the practitioners' requests on to his government.

A passing-by reporter from a Thai TV station recorded the entire event

According to professor Wu, on December 10, in order to protest the rape of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese policeman He Xuejian, Falun Gong practitioners held a quiet sit-in on the roadside opposite the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. They "clarified the truth" to passersby and called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. Around noon, several dozen uniformed police and plainclothes police crossed the road and forcibly searched practitioners' bags, dragged practitioners away and grabbed their banners, causing injury to practitioners and damaging their personal belongings. At the site, some policemen said that they didn't want to interfere with the protest, but the Chinese Embassy ordered them to do so. Professor Wu stressed that such a gross violation of human rights happened on International Human Rights Day.

Professor Wu said, "The interference with the peaceful protests of practitioners is still happening. Yesterday (December 15), they arrested eight practitioners who were sitting in front of the Chinese Embassy. Among the detained practitioners, there were three children who are four, six, and fourteen years old. When policemen took the practitioners away, they dragged and beat them, causing several injuries. So far, one practitioner has been released, and the other seven are on a hunger strike."

Professor Wu called on the Thailand government to recognize the totalitarian and brutal nature of the CCP, not to be an accomplice of the regime in the persecution, and to uphold justice, human morality and conscience.

Posting date: 12/21/2005
Original article date: 12/21/2005
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/18/116811.html

Torture, especially the sexual torture, of Falun Gong practitioners

2005-12-19T12:39:00.000-06:00

China Strapped to the Tiger Bench: the
Degradation of a Nation Reflections on
the investigation with attorney Gao
Zhisheng of the torture, especially the
sexual torture, of Falun Gong
practitioners

By Jiao Guobiao Special to The Epoch
Times Dec 19, 2005

A group of Falun Gong practitioners
display some of the torture methods used
by the Chinese government on Falun Gong
practitioners in China. The woman in the
right is sitting on a tiger bench with
her hands and feet tied up. (The Epoch
Times) High-res image (600 x 398 px, 72
dpi)

Dr. Jiao Guobiao is a journalism
professor at Peking University, and was
recently fired for his outspoken views
on censorship. In an article posted on
the Web site of Voice of America, Dr.
Jiao describes China's censorship
methods as an "information pigsty"
surrounded by "stinking" stones that
separate China from the outside world,
and the Chinese news media from the
Chinese people. In this article, he
reflects on the investigation of torture
of Falun Gong practitioners that he and
lawyer Gao Zhisheng carried out. This
article contains graphic descriptions of
torture.

Tiger bench! Tiger bench! Still the
tiger bench!

In a civilized country, even if there
were just one incident of the government
using the tiger bench on its citizens,
this government would no longer be able
to hold power. But these days, we have
been talking on a daily basis with
people who have been tortured on tiger
benches. We have eaten from the same
table, and sometimes even slept in the
same bed. Many of them have experienced
tiger benches not just once, but many
times. Once Wang Yuhuan "lived" on the
tiger bench for three days and two
nights, going in and out of
consciousness. Those so-called "people's
policemen" twisted her arms every so
often. Her two shoulders felt as if they
are on wheels that turned all
directions, and her arms, being tied up,
were flung from the back to the front
over her head, while her head was
violently pushed forward in between her
legs; the iron rod tied to her front
almost cut her chest into two pieces.
Then, her tied-up arms would be flung
from the front to the back, while her
head was pushed all the way back, with
the back of her head crushing again the
outside of the backboard; her neck was
on the verge of being broken by the top
edge of the backboard. Those "people's
policemen" would also untie her, but
force her arms around her back so far
that her two hands would press upward
together miraculously as if they were
pressing together in the front.

While listening to the peaceful
narratives of their horrific experiences
by these people whose lives have been
extricated from cruel torture, I
sometimes fell into a momentary
illusion. Looking at these men and women
in front of me, speaking intently with
no hatred and resentment, I wondered
whether they were ghosts who had passed
away, or were they gods with eternal
life? Here we were together-was I in the
human world or in hell?

Tiger bench is another name for torture.
All kinds of cruel torture instruments
that we have heard from legends are
actually still alive in the world, and
these Falun Gong practitioners have
experienced all the torture methods that
Sister Jiang [1] suffered in the
concentration camp of Zhazi Cave. Even
those methods Sister Jiang did not
experience, such as electrocution of
internal organs wherein an electric
baton is inserted into the victim's anus
until he or she dies, have been
experienced by these truth-seeking Falun
Gong practitioners.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has
often said the Japanese should apologize
to the Chinese people. The torture Wang
Yuhuan experienced is no more civilized
or kind than those once inflicted by the
Japanese people on the Chinese. The
Chinese government should first
apologize to the Chinese people, before
it can request righteously that Japan
apologize to the Chinese people.
Recently an old wreck named Tang Jiaxuan
said human rights in China are better
than those in the U.S. The U.S.
policemen, however, cannot even imagine
what the tiger bench looks like, but it
is still used on the Chinese people. If
variety of "experience" can also count
as a kind of human rights, then the
American people clearly fall far behind
the Chinese people.

The "political issue" is the source of
all evil. The disasters suffered by the
Chinese people in the past few decades
have all come from the "political
issue." I would hope the People's
Congress would establish an item in the
legislation, forbidding the treatment of
national matters in the name of the
"political issue." The "political issue"
is a term that violates and obscures the
law. As soon as the "political issue" is
attached, nobody is allowed to
intercede, and all laws can be slipped
beneath the feet. The 6-10 Office , a
specialized organization, will be
recorded in the history of the suffering
by the Chinese nation in an image even
uglier than the Central Cultural
Revolution Group. Local 6-10 Offices not
only persecute Falun Gong, they also
exert pressure to break the families of
Falun Gong practitioners, and ask the
school principles to bar the children of
Falun Gong practitioners from attending
school. The CCP's Propaganda Department
disallows any reflection on the Cultural
Revolution, and thus the 6-10 Office
repeats the Cultural Revolution. The
Cultural Revolution, the CCP's
Propaganda Department, and the 6-10
Office will, in similarly notorious
images, all enter into the long history
of brutality in the Chinese nation.

In the history of this nation since the
CCP seized power, China has suffered
from large-scale persecution of
intellectuals; the CCP remembers this
and so it no longer persecutes
intellectuals on a large scale. China
has suffered from large-scale
persecution of veteran cadres; the CCP
remembers it and so it no longer
conducts revolution by kicking away
government. Until now, China has not
suffered from large-scale persecution of
people with spiritual beliefs, so CCP
held that it would be able to wipe out
Falun Gong practitioners like the autumn
wind wipes away the leaves.

The Roman Empire was not able to
eliminate Christianity in 400 years,
thus we now have the tradition of
religious tolerance and freedom of
belief in Europe and the USA. China has
no such a tradition, and from this
angle, Falun Gong practitioners are
suffering for our entire nation. They
are paying the cost for the Chinese
nation to become mature-they are paying
for all of us. Therefore, I, in my own
name, salute these men and women who
have come off tiger benches alive and
who are living between the worlds of
deities and ghosts!

I have to mention that during the entire
process of our investigation, we have
heard very frequently of sexual abuse
and sexual torture toward female Falun
Gong practitioners. Even the religious
persecution in the European history and
the Nazi's persecution of Jewish people
seemed to show more constrain than our
"people's police" and more respect for
women's rights. Wang Yuhuan, over 50
years old, said that those policemen of
a younger generation not only ripped off
all her clothing, but also ordered her
to urinate in front of seven or eight
policemen. This was not enough; these
young men took out their penises and
urinated on Wang Yuhuang, who was their
mother's age, saying, "You are not
married, right? Today we want you to
experience men." Those bastards-aren't
they afraid "dragons will snatch it
off?"

There are those policemen who showed
particular interest in women's vaginas,
shocking them with electric batons and
stabbing with brushes to scrub them. I
do not understand what is it that they
enjoy? Who does not have a private part-
your mothers, your wives, your sisters,
your daughters, all your female
ancestors and your female offspring? I
make a solemn suggestion to our
President Hu Jintao: Why don't you
organize a conference call and order
your subordinates not to show that much
interest in women's private parts?
Haven't we all come out of women's
vaginas? Can you ask the men in our
Chinese nation to show more respect for
women's private parts? What's the
difference between vaginas of other
women and those of our wives, mothers,
sisters, daughters and daughters-in-law?
Did they not treat you well? Were you
not born from there?

[1] Sister Jiang, or Jiang Zhuyun, was a
Communist Party member who was arrested
by the Kuomintang army in 1948 and
imprisoned in Zhazi Cave concentration
camp. There were questions about what
tortures she endured, but the Communist
literature, especially through a
historical novel called "Hong Yan," made
her into a legendary hero for the
tortures she suffered, including, tiger
bench. Sister Jiang has been a symbol of
torture sufferer in contemporary China.

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United Nations Special Rapporteur Exposes Widespread Use of Torture

2005-12-18T11:48:00.000-06:00

(Clearwisdom.net)

United Nations Special Rapporteur Exposes Widespread Use of Torture in China and the CCP's Attempt to Obstruct His Investigation (Photo)

By Li Zi

On December 2, 2005, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr. Manfred Nowak, condemned the Chinese Communist Party's use of torture at a press conference at UN headquarters in Beijing.

Background

The Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture is one of the human rights institutes under the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations has passed many pacts or declarations dealing with the topic of torture. According to these pacts, the UN has established and appointed special investigators and committees to monitor governments in countries around the world to apply related agreements and human rights standards dictated by these pacts. These special investigators and work committees are under the umbrella of United Nations human rights organization.

These special investigators and committee members are for the most part well-respected experts in the fields of human rights and law. They work for the UN on a voluntary basis and have outside jobs. They perform their UN work in addition to their normal work. Their work is independent and not restricted by any government. Because these people are professionals and also volunteers, governments and human rights organizations hold their work in high regard. Because local authorities have no influence on their investigations, their findings are considered to be most authoritative.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture is usually in charge of investigating torture in various countries and commands great influence in the UN Human Rights Committee. Usually, renowned human rights activists around the world recommend an individual for this specific task. The special rapporteur serves a four-year term and is permitted to work for more than one term.

Although the Chinese Communist Party has bribed many governments to evade condemnation of its human rights record by the UN Human Rights Committee, the Party cannot do anything about the special rapporteur on human rights. Many rapporteurs devote a large part of their annual report to criticizing the CCP's human rights violations. In recent years, reports on the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners have taken up a substantial portion of the report. In their reports, three different rapporteurs on torture have sternly condemned the CCP's widespread use of torture.

Ten-year delay

Since the use of torture by the CCP has been on the rise, in 1995, then torture investigator Mr. Nigel Rodney asked to conduct an investigation in China. Because of the respectability of the UN special investigators, many world governments permit them to conduct investigations at any time. But the CCP, in hopes of covering up their activities, did not want to allow the investigator to freely investigate; on the other hand, they could not completely deny the request. Therefore, it did what it does best--it constantly created some "special situations" in China to refuse or delay the visit.

At first, the Party tried to force the investigator to accept unreasonable constraints as a prerequisite for the visit. For example, the investigator would only be allowed to visit a few designated prisons. According to UN policies, the investigator should not be subjected to any limitations when investigating human rights in any country. He should be able to go to any prison without notifying the government; he can interview anyone subjected to torture without the presence of government officials, and the interviewee and his family should not be subject to retaliation from the government. The investigators firmly refused to accept the unreasonable conditions the CCP proposed. The commission firmly upheld international standards and chose not to make the trip rather than to accept the CCP's conditions. I witnessed firsthand the last investigator, Theo van Boven, arguing with CCP officials, insisting he must follow international standards.

Year after year, UN investigators upheld their principles. While the CCP dragged its feet for a long time, they attracted tremendous international pressure, because everyone knew why the CCP was delaying the visit. Without a choice, the CCP finally agreed to let the investigator conduct an investigation according to international standards, but it also arranged obstructions to further delay the visit. For instance: in 2003, the CCP tried its best to cover up the SARS epidemic at first, and then turned around and used the SARS issue to prevent the investigator from going to China. Last year, the CCP purposefully arranged Mr. Theo van Boven's visit for July 1. Right before Mr. Boven set off, the CCP told him, "Sorry, the whole country is celebrating a 'holiday' right now; we cannot let you come."

The CCP thought it had gained the upper hand, while it actually had become a laughing stock around the world. During the March human rights conference in Geneva, Mr. Boven said that his visa and plane ticket were still in his briefcase, but he was not allowed to make the trip. The Chinese representative answered, "In 2003 we had SARS; last year, we were celebrating the holidays." Laughter broke out in the room.

Under tremendous international pressure, the CCP accepted the investigator's request to conduct an on-site investigation in China this year, in exchange for the U.S. agreeing to not propose a motion condemning China's human rights record. This was the first on-site investigation on human rights and torture conducted by the UN and members from the international community in China.

Preparation

Manfred Nowak, a law professor from Austria, is the new special rapporteur of torture this year. He is the first independent investigator in the history of the UN to go to China to investigate human rights issues. Major media and political experts call it an investigation of historic significance.

The CCP of course had its schemes: it pretended to be "willing to cooperate with the international community" by allowing the UN investigator to carry out an investigation in China. It enticed and pressured officials at UN headquarters in Geneva, and carefully planned the trip. It thought that since professor Nowak was a newly appointed investigator and not familiar with the interpersonal relationships within the UN office, professor Nowak would not be able to proceed on his own after he arrived in China. Professor Nowak was cordial and diplomatic during his discussions with CCP officials. He showed an understanding and cooperative attitude toward the Chinese government, which sharply contrasted with his predecessor, professor Van Boven. The CCP thought it was in control of everything.

The CCP made the mistake of taking this as a weakness.

Investigation and interference

Professor Nowak started his official visit on November 21. The CCP filled his hotel with National Security agents; they tapped professor Nowak's and his delegation's phone-lines and watched their every move. The CCP knew ahead of time about the places the investigators were going. They threatened and intimidated the torture victims and the families with whom the investigators were going to speak. They tried to disrupt some of their plans and arranged many official meetings for professor Nowak, with the intention of reducing his time to investigate.

The interference from the CCP, both in China and inside the UN, did obstruct professor Nowak's investigations. He was forced to cancel his trips to Jinan City and Yining City. However, professor Nowak took note of the CCP's schemes while persevering in carrying out his investigations under adverse conditions. He exposed the CCP's abuse and torture to the world two weeks later.

Exposure

Professor Nowak ended his two-week investigation in China on December 2. He held a press conference on the same day at the UN headquarters in Beijing. Several hundred media from around the world reported this event.

At the press conference, professor Nowak exposed the CCP's attempts to obstruct his investigation. In particular, the China National Security Bureau and Ministry of Public Security officials obstructed or restricted his activities during his visit. Professor Nowak pointed out that any form of interference is against the rules. The CCP not only sent people to follow, watch and harass the commission members; they also threatened and intimidated people and their families who were going to provide evidence for the investigating team.

The special investigator pointed out that, unlike other governments, the CCP authorities refused to issue him a permit and stonewalled his attempt to go to any prison he wanted. They sent an official from the Department of Foreign Affairs to "accompany" him. The visits are to be carried out without prior notice, yet the investigation team was told to notify the foreign affairs official one hour before any visit, and the official in turn notified the prisons and labor camps where these visits would occur.

The special investigators exposed the CCP's false promises to follow international standards that they made prior to the trip. They also exposed the tactics the CCP employed to obstruct the visit.

The investigator also pointed out that the prison authorities restricted interview times with the excuse of limited work time, which reduced the number of places that could be visited and the number of detainees with whom the investigator could speak. Professor Nowak was even repeatedly asked to present his passport and hand over all electronic devices. He was forbidden to bring a camera into the prison, although taking photographs is one of the basic duties of an investigation. Nowak tried to enter prison cells on a random basis to prevent his conversations with inmates being overheard. Sometimes, the detainees refused to meet with him because they feared retaliation and persecution. Several other detainees asked him to keep their conversations confidential.

Regarding his conversation with the detainees, Nowak pointed out that he saw obvious fear and self-censorship, which he had never encountered in other countries. Nowak called it "a culture of fear" and said he has never seen this in other countries.

The Truth

Despite the CCP exhausting its means of interference and limiting the investigators and the committee's movement, the special investigators still saw serious evidence of the CCP's widespread use of torture. At the press conference in Beijing on December 2, Nowak said torture is used throughout China, including Beijing, where people consider the "administration of law" is better than other places. He had enough evidence to prove that, to a large extent, the Chinese judicial system still relies on coercion to extract confessions. China has the largest prison system in the world. Torture has been used to extract confessions, to punish people or to brainwash people. Nowak said that China has no appeal system for the victims. Officials of the so-called monitoring system are not the best candidates watch over the guards and police, because they also follow orders from the government and have the same goals as the police and guards. Torture is widespread in Chinese labor camps, and the guards, who are rarely checked, are administering such torture.

Nowak said his predecessors received many complaints regarding torture and other forms of mistreatment in China and have turned them over to the Chinese government for its investigation and opinion. The tortures are systemic and long lasting. They target Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, members of the Uighur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, political dissidents, human rights activists, and members of house churches.

Nowak listed some methods of torture such as beating, shocking with electric batons, burning with cigarettes, handcuffing or shackling for extended periods of time in solitary confinement, submerging detainees in water or sewage, or exposing them to extreme heat or cold, forcing the prisoners to stay in an uncomfortable position for a long time, such as sitting, squatting, lying down, standing or with his arms supporting his body; putting things underneath the detainee's body and not allowing him to eat, drink or sleep; long-term solitary confinement; no treatment or medicine during illness; heavy labor, and being hung up by handcuffs. Sometimes there is a name for a specific torture, such as the Tiger Bench; sitting on a small, ridged stool several inches tall without moving; "flying an airplane," where the detainee is forced to bend forward with his legs tightly together and arms raised high above his body; "Stewing the eagle," where the detainee is forced to stand on a tall stool and is beaten until the guards are exhausted. According to information collected during the investigation, Nowak said all these methods are used in China.

At the same time, Nowak condemned the CCP for using psychiatric facilities to torture persistent dissidents in order to damage their minds and dignity. He met many people who suffer from mental trauma or physical injuries that left no visible scars. He pointed out that Falun Gong practitioners in particular were singled out by the authorities for the most brutal treatment. The government often incarcerates them in labor camps without trial and tries to brainwash them. The Falun Gong practitioners are forced to stay in a painful position for a long time. A democracy activist who also suffered from this torture and was interviewed by Nowak called it "killing with a soft knife."

Condemnation

Nowak called on China to repeal the "labor reeducation" system, abolish all labor camps and stop using psychiatry as a torture method. The Chinese government must give suspects the right to remain silent and completely abolish extraction of confessions through torture. The Chinese government must follow basic international human rights principles and the UN constitution. Unless the Chinese government carries out major legal reforms and allows the establishment of an independent judicial system, Mr. Nowak said that torture in China would not be effectively controlled.

He said the "culture of fear" is prevalent. Some prisoners, even those who wrote letters to his office alleging torture, said during the investigation that they were not tortured, or they said they could not remember details of the torture. Nowak said that one could feel the fear and self-censorship.

Nowak also said that China should abolish the concept of political dissidents along with the charges of "jeopardizing national security" and "disrupting social security" because these charges give the Chinese government too much room for interpretation. He also emphasized that brainwashing through forced labor or other forms in prisons, custody centers, mental hospitals and other places should be abolished.

According to international human rights laws, the government can intervene in the expression of political opinions, religious beliefs, moral values, or minority opinions only when such actions incite hatred and violence, or if they directly threaten the state or public security. State-oriented monitoring and severe punishment through "labor reeducation" of citizens holding differing opinions do not accord with the core values of a society built on a humanitarian culture. Such monitoring will result in fear, obedience, self-censorship and a "culture of fear," which will violate "the right to avoid being subjected to inhumane or insulting treatment or punishment."

Every society has the right to uphold or administer article 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states, "All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person...Accused persons shall, save in exceptional circumstances, be segregated from convicted persons and shall be subject to separate treatment appropriate to their status as non-convicted persons...The penitentiary system's essential aim shall be the treatment of prisoners with the goal of their reformation and social rehabilitation."

The "labor reeducation" system in China and the policies at prisons and detention centers contradict measures to help detainees repent for their crimes, because the systems' goal is to destroy the detainees' will and alter their humanity. These measures violate Article 7 and Article 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as Article 1 and Article 16 of the UN Convention Against Torture, which protect people's self-esteem, dignity and humanity, as well as other core aspects of human rights. Forced labor itself not only constitutes a severe violation of personal freedom, a basic human right, but is also seen as systemic inhumane treatment and even torture. Therefore, similar measures should be abolished from labor camps, prisons, detention centers and mental hospitals.

Nowak will turn in an official investigation report to the UN Human Rights Committee next year.

Feedback

After the press conference, many media in Beijing quickly published the result of the investigation in different languages. Titles of some of these articles include "UN: Torture in China Still Widespread;" "UN Assails China's Widespread Use of Torture" and "China Needs Major Reform to Curb 'Widespread' Torture--U.N." Radio and TV stations in many countries broadcast Nowak's speech and broadcast pictures of torture and of Chinese labor camps. The UN investigation of torture in China has become top news on many websites. The CCP is now linked with torture.

Future performance

Confronted with severe criticism, the CCP didn't know how to react at first, which sharply contrasted with its speedy response after the staged self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square.

Of course, the CCP has denied the truth and claimed that Nowak has limited knowledge on torture issues in China. The CCP vehemently denies the special investigator's conclusions, which will only bring more pressure upon itself. If the CCP thinks Mr. Nowak does not know much about the issue, why did it obstruct and interfere with his investigation?

Posting date: 12/18/2005
Original article date: 12/18/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/8/116107.html

Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

2005-12-18T08:59:00.000-06:00

Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Zhirong was a retired worker from the Chengdu Metallurgy Factory of Sichuan Province. In 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. After returning home, she was harassed by deputies from the local police stations, the residential committee, and her factory security department. She was detained numerous times. During her detention she held hunger strikes to protest. Upon seeing that she was on the verge of death, the authorities released her. To avoid further persecution Ms. Wang, her daughter, and her four-year-old grandson were forced to leave home and go from place to place. Ms. Wang passed away on December 14, 2001, at the age of 59. Her daughter continued to live a homeless life, and in January 2003, her grandchild also died.

Mr. Wang Shengtang lived in Gushan Town, Donggang City, Liaoning Province. Shortly after he began to practice Falun Gong, all his illnesses went away without treatment. After the persecution began in 1999, he was twice arrested, once in September 1999 and again in July 2001. The arrest in 2001 happened in the middle of the night. At that time the Donggang City Police Department Security Section Chief Wang Runlong led over ten policemen to search his home. They scaled the wall and broke into his house. They turned his home upside down and then took him away without a warrant. For the past several years Mr. Wang had been subjected to constant harassment, threats, intimidation, and brainwashing. He suffered tremendously under this persecution and was under constant fear and stress. He suffered a stroke as a result and passed away on October 12, 2005, at the age of 70.

Ms. Ren Huiying lived in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province. Before she took up the practice of Falun Gong, she had to rely on others to take care of her. From 1990 to 1998, she took medication constantly. After she began to practice Falun Gong in 1998, she never had to use any medication and she became completely healthy. Her son and daughter-in-law also practice Falun Gong. In June 2000, her son and daughter-in-law went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Her family was under constant harassment as a result, and received threats from the local authorities. Ms. Ren fell ill under the pressure and passed away on November 7, 2000, at the age of 57.
Mr. Xia Xiying lived in Liujiawa Village, Tiemengang, Macheng City, Hubei Province. He previously had late-stage tuberculosis. After practicing Falun Gong, his tuberculosis and other illnesses went away. He went to Wuhan City on April 25, 1999 to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. After the persecution formally started in July 1999, he was subjected to harassment and intimidation. He turned in his Falun Dafa books under pressure and wrote the so-called guarantee statement against his will. He was forced to slander Dafa on TV. He was very regretful for what he did after he returned home. The local authorities continued to harass him, causing dramatic damage to his body and mind. He passed away in 2003, at the age of 70.
Ms. Bao Shengmei was from Wangjiashuizhai Village, Baiguo Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. She was subjected to constant persecution since 1999 and was unable to study the Fa and do the exercises. She was forced to leave home and go from place to place. In late 2004, she passed away.

Posting date: 12/18/2005Original article date: 12/18/2005Category: Eyewitness AccountsChinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/4/115778.html

Falun Gong Practitioners Assaulted in Argentina

2005-12-16T22:34:00.000-06:00

FDI: Falun Gong Practitioners Assaulted in Argentina after Lawsuit against Visiting Chinese Official Assailants Linked to Chinese Government

NEWS - Dec. 15, 2005 Falun Dafa Information Center [ http://www.faluninfo.net/ ]
Chinese assailants beat a Falun Gong practitioner to the ground in Buenos Aires outside Argentina's National Congress. Witnesses say local police were unresponsive to cries for help and believe they were under orders from visiting Chinese officials not to interfere with the assailants.NEW YORK (FDI) - The Falun Dafa Information Center (FDI) has received first-hand accounts of assault, battery, and theft perpetrated against Falun Gong practitioners in Argentina. The assailants were described as ethnic Chinese, all wearing suits, and driven by car and van to the scene of the crime; photo evidence has confirmed these descriptions.
The incident took place Wednesday, December 14, in broad daylight beginning at 10:30A.M. local time, outside Argentina's National Congress in Buenos Aires. Several members of the Falun Gong group were injured in the assault, including women. Banners and poster displays documenting rights violations in China were wrestled from the Falun Gong and stolen by the assailants.

The nature of the stolen items - human rights materials - strongly suggest political motivations and backing.

The assault is believed to have taken place in connection with the visit to Buenos Aires Wednesday of top-ranking official, Luo Gan, who formerly headed China's secret Falun Gong Control Office, the "6-10 Office." Luo was served with a lawsuit in Argentina on Tuesday, one day prior to the assault, for his involvement in genocide against the Falun Gong in China. Victims and witnesses at the scene described the assault as "highly-organized" and "terribly violent." One man was seen being beaten to the ground and then kicked repeatedly while down. Witnesses had their cameras and film wrestled from their hands by several unidentified Chinese men. One member of the Falun Gong group had a cell phone stolen.

FDI is additionally concerned by multiple first-hand accounts that Argentinean police did little to stop the assault. Police, though at the scene, were said to respond "very timidly," and didn't react even when they themselves received blows from the Chinese attackers. One witness even told of police shielding an assailant after upset bystanders tried to intervene. Police did not arrest or question any members of the attacking group.

Witnesses have surmised that Argentinean police knew about the attack in advance and were instructed, at promptings from Chinese officials, not to intervene. The Chinese assailants were seen later in the day outside the nearby Sheraton Hotel, where Luo Gan was reportedly present. The assailants are believed to be part of the Chinese delegation or members of the Chinese Embassy in Argentina.

Disturbing, Global Pattern of Instigation
Wednesday's assault fits into a disturbing pattern of violence, intimidation, and rights violations in connection with visits by Chinese officials around the world. It appears that in each case Chinese authorities have used economic and political clout to pressure host-country governments.

Past incidents of a similar nature span a range of countries. In South Africa, June of 2004, gunmen opened fire on a car of visiting Chinese Falun Gong adherents; the group had just arrived in Johannesburg and planned to serve a Chinese official with a lawsuit for human rights crimes. In Chicago the CCP has sent individuals to physically assault Falun Gong demonstrators who sit outside the PRC consulate. On another occasion there a car was firebombed in broad daylight.

In January of 2004 French authorities arrested over 70 Falun Gong for "wearing the color yellow" or clothing with the words "Falun Gong" while China's president visited. Icelandic officials adopted a "blacklist," provided by Chinese agents, to bar entry of Falun Gong demonstrators during a June 2002 visit by China's president--a decision the Icelandic Ombudsman recently ruled to be illegal. Myanmar authorities, meanwhile, arrested a 71-year-old man and sentenced him to seven years in prison for raising a banner reading "truth, compassion, tolerance" when China's president visited the nation in December of 2002.
"The free world needs to promptly, and decisively, say that this is wrong and must stop," said FDI spokesperson Mr. Erping Zhang. "China's regime should have no forum anywhere for its draconian policies of control. Assaults like these should never happen in China, much less free, democratic nations. If this is the cost of China's economic friendship, it is a Faustian deal of the worst sort that world leaders are cutting. It's a terrible sell out."

FDI is calling for Argentinian authorities to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation into the incident, and further requesting the assistance of any and all international agencies that might help to investigate the larger pattern of violence and human rights abuses carried out by agents of the Chinese Communist Party against Falun Gong practitioners throughout the world, including Burma, France, Mexico, Germany, and Russia (news).

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NEWS - Dec. 15, 2005
Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net

Background
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of the Buddha School, consisting of meditation and exercises, with teachings that emphasize living by three principles: truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Originating in China, Falun Gong is now practiced in over 70 countries. With Chinese government estimates of 100 million practicing Falun Gong in China, in July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party-state launched a nationwide, violent campaign to "eradicate" the practice. The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 2,780 deaths and over 44,000 cases of torture (reports / sources). Millions have been detained or sent to forced labor camps.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/

Posting date: 12/16/2005Original article date: 12/16/2005Category: News & Media Reports

NEWS BULLETIN

2005-12-15T08:47:00.000-06:00

Dec. 14, 2005
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FDI: SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIAL LUO GAN SUED IN ARGENTINA FOR GENOCIDE
NEW YORK TIMES: CHINESE LAWYER TAKES ON FALUN GONG CASES, FACES THREATS
FDI: WORLDWIDE PROTESTS CONDEMN RAPE OF FALUN GONG WOMEN BY POLICE
EPOCH TIMES: CHINESE POLICE BEAT MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER TO DEATH
SENIOR CHINESE OFFICIAL LUO GAN SUED IN ARGENTINA FOR GENOCIDE
NEW YORK (FDI)—During an official visit to Argentina, on December 13 Chinese cabinet member Luo Gan was sued by Falun Gong practitioners for his role in the torture and genocide against Falun Gong in China. Gan is largely responsible for the implementation of former president Jiang Zemin’s “eradicate Falun Gong” policy. Luo personally monitors the different branches of the government, as well as the forced labor camps around the country, to ensure that the policy is followed with whatever means necessary. Two prominent local attorneys filed the suit at the Buenos Aires Federal Court.

CHINESE LAWYER TAKES ON FALUN GONG CASES, FACES THREATS
BEIJING (New York Times)—Mr. Gao [Zhisheng] has been blocked from filing lawsuits on behalf of Falun Gong members. But in open letters to the leadership, he said the secret police had tortured sect members to make them renounce Falun Gong. He described a police-run, extra-judicial "brainwashing base" where, he said, one client was first starved and then force-fed until he threw up. Another of his Falun Gong clients, he says, was raped while in police custody…The Beijing Judicial Bureau handed him a list of cases and clients that were off limits, including Falun Gong…This fall, he said, security agents have followed him constantly…By late November, the bureau issued a new notice demanding that Mr. Gao hand over his personal law license as well as his firm's operating permit. Both had to be in the hands of the bureau by Dec. 14. The authority would otherwise “use force according to law to carry it out.”
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/international/asia/13lawyer.html

WORLDWIDE PROTESTS CONDEMN RAPE OF FALUN GONG WOMEN BY POLICE
(FDI)—Since news of the November 25 rape of two Falun Gong women in police custody, Falun Gong practitioners have been staging protests spanning the globe. The protests have been held outside of Chinese consulates and embassies in Finland, Ireland, Thailand, Japan, Canada, and Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles. Protesters call on the Chinese government to hold accountable the police officer responsible for the brutal rapes, named He Xuejian. Officer He used electric stun batons on one of the victim’s breasts, slapped, and choked her.
Full Story: http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9299

CHINESE POLICE BEAT MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER TO DEATH
JIANGXI, CHINA (The Epoch Times)—Falun Gong practitioner Weidong Fei, who was a teacher in the Jiujiang County No. 1 Middle School in Jiangxi Province, was reported to the police by a store owner while he was telling others…about the persecution of Falun Gong. The police arrived at the scene and closed the store's roll-up doors, then brutally beat Weidong Fei to death on the spot…His family was forbidden to see his body and his body was sent to be cremated without the consent of his family. The police passed his ashes to his family and threatened his family not to protest his unlawful death. According to insiders, due to the beating, his body was covered with bruises, there were two bloody holes on both of his temples, and all of his front teeth were broken off.
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Mr. Yan Li - Tortured to Death

2005-12-14T08:04:00.000-06:00

Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Tortured to Death in Police Custody

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province was tortured to death while in police custody at the Chifeng City Police Department, Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region.

On November 22, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yan Li and Mr. Wang Xiaodong were arrested in an apartment building located at Yinhang Lane, Hada Street, Hongshan District, Chifeng City by State Security Agents from the Chifeng City Police Department. Mr. Yan Li went on hunger strike to protest the persecution after being arrested.

On December 5, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family received a phone call indicating that Mr. Yan Li was arrested, and that the family would receive the notice in the mail within several days.

On December 7, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family arrived Chifeng City, but found out that Mr. Yan Li had already died.

Chifeng City zip code, 024000
Chifeng City Police Department phone 86-476-8335632
State Security Division Head Guo Yuming (male) of Chifeng City Police Department phone: 86-476-8689906. Another head's last name is Bao (male).
State Security Brach Division Head Jia Yi (male) of Chifeng City Police Department phone: 86-476-8689987
Chifeng City 610 Office (Chifeng City Legal Education Base) zip code, 024000, phone: 86-476-8424610(Office), 86-476-8421672(Office), 86-476-8236710 (Office) Chair Wang Jinshan (male, also Chifeng City Police Department Head): 86-476-8337060 (Office), 86-476-8215693 (Home), 86-13327150680 (Cell), Deputy Chair Yang Chunyue (male): 86-476-8339595 (Office), 86-13904766288 (Cell), 86-476-8350999 (Home)
Chifeng City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-476-8347412, Deputy Secretary Zhang Guoli (male): 86-476-8368810
Chifeng City CCP 610 Office: 86-476-8368810, Head Deng (male), 86-476-8368810
Hongshan District zip code, 024000
Hongshan District Police Department operator: 86-476-8361518
State Security Division: 86-476-8365260, Division Head Zhang Daihe (male): 86-476-8350444
Hongshan District Police Department Dai Yingtang (male): 86-13304769656 (Cell)
Hongshan Distrcit CCP 610 Office: 86-476-8244714
610 Office chair Wu Xuesong (male): 86-476-8244714 (Office), 86-476-8680027 (Cell), 86-13015188777 (Cell)
610 Office personnel, Zhang Jinhai (male): 86-13604769398 (Cell), Cui Liping (female), Ma Hongsheng (male)
Detention Center, 86-476-8663772 or 86-476-8670899
Detention Center head Bai Gula (male), fax: 86-476-8670866
Detention Center guard Deng Liyan (female): 86-476-55886096 (Home), 86-13848668887 (Cell), 86-476-8223094
Hongshan District Commisionor and CCP Secretary Dong Qifu (in charge of financial support of the persecution): 86-13304761958 (Cell)
Hongshan District Department of Justice, Zhang Wei (male): 86-476-8690996 (Cell)
Hongshan District CCP Political and Judiaciary Committee, 86-476-8237757 Secretary Song Lifu (male): 86-476-8237622 (Office), 86-476-8368810 (Home), 86-476-8368110, 86-13904766996 (Cell), 86-13304766996 (Cell)
Deputy Secretary Wang Jingguo (male): 86-13304766992 (Cell), Secretary Qu (male), 86-476-8250510, 86-476-8683260 (Cell)

Posting date: 12/13/2005
Original article date: 12/13/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/9/116179.html

China tries to stop people's human rights champion

2005-12-13T23:37:00.000-06:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/international/asia/13lawyer.html?ei=5088&en=7f98b28235fc18ce&ex=1292130000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Mr. Li Yequan Has Been on a Hunger Strike for Fifty-six Days and Is Near Death

2005-12-12T07:29:00.000-06:00

[Clearwisdom.net]

Mr. Li Yequan Has Been on a Hunger Strike for Fifty-six Days and Is Near Death

Mr. Li Yequan, a 38-year-old practitioner from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, has had his wages suspended for the last six years because of his belief in Falun Gong. He had been illegally arrested numerous times and forced to move from one place to another to avoid persecution. Mr. Li is now being brutally abused at the Daqing Detention Center. He has been on a hunger strike for 56 days to protest the illegal treatment. Every day, for 24 hours, he is handcuffed, shackled, and force-fed. A guard named Wang Yingzhou, along with inmates, forced a liter of hard liquor down his throat and spit on him. They also poured cold water on Li Yequan. Due to being force-fed three times a day, Mr. Li's esophagus has been badly injured. He shows symptoms of pneumonia and mental disorientation and his body temperature has dropped. He is extremely weak, with his white cell count as high as 20,000. Mr. Li has slipped into a coma many times and is now dying.

Mr. Li Yequan enjoying happy days with his family prior to being persecuted
On November 16, 2005, Li Yequan's family went to visit him and also to talk to the authorities at the detention center. The associate director of the center, Wang Yongxiang, made excuses and refused to see them. One of Mr. Li's family members presented Wang an open letter addressed to the labor camp. On November 17, Mr. Li's father, who had suffered a stroke, his brother, and sisters traveled a long distance to see Li Yequan. In Wang Yongxiang's office, all of his family members were asked if they practiced Falun Gong. Mr. Li's wife asked, for verification, if Mr. Li had been force-fed hard liquor and spit on. The actions were denied. When his wife said she would ask Mr. Yi himself, the prison authorities got very angry and yelled, "From now on, you are not allowed to see him any more!"

Mr. Li's father asked, "Li Yequan is a good man. What law did he break? Why did you arrest him so many times?" They replied, "The government does not allow him to practice Falun Gong." "So which law did he break?" They said, "That's the business of the Public Security Bureau. Why don't you go ask them?"

Mr. Li's family went to the No. 1 Brigade, where his wife was refused entry. His brother confirmed from talking to Mr. Li that liquor was indeed forced down his throat and that he was spat upon. The head of the brigade, Lai Zhonghui, Wang Yingzhou, and other inmates stormed over and dragged Mr. Li's brother out of the room. His brother was forced to stay outside in freezing temperature for over two hours, which exacerbated his stomach problem.
When Mr. Li's father demanded his son's release, they passed the buck to the Public Security Bureau. Disappointed, Mr. Li's family had to leave.

Mr. Li Yequan worked for the Daqing City Bullet Factory. He started practicing Falun Gong in July 1996 and followed the teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance in his daily life and was recognized as a good worker. His research project was so outstanding that he was going to be promoted from associate head of the workshop to the factory head responsible for technology. Since the persecution of Falun Gong first started in July 1999, the local police station and the staff in his company tried to coerce him to write a guarantee statement. He refused and remained true to his beliefs. The party secretary, Yao Dexi, worried that he might go to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Giong, so they arrested him and took him to the Chuangye Police Station, where he was detained for two months before being sent back to his company.
On July 14, 2000, Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong but he was escorted back to the Honggang Detention Center, where he was detained for one month and then another 15 days. After he was sent back to his company, Mr. Li was placed under house arrest. On September 25, Party Secretary Yao Dexi extorted 3,600 yuan from him before they released him. In addition, they took his two-month wages, one month's bonus for May, and other allowances totaling 100 yuan. They also took the 329 yuan in cash that he had on him. After they extorted the funds from Mr. Li, they told him that he could resume work after the National Day holidays. Unfortunately, as soon as Mr Li returned to work, he was sent to Bei'an, Daqing's 610 Office brainwashing center, for one month. From the brainwashing center, the local 610 Office sent Mr Li to one year in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp for removing slogans slandering Falun Gong from the wall. He was released on October 28, 2001.

Receipt for the fines extorted by Party Secretary Yao Dexi
After returning to work, Mr. Li was demoted to the janitorial staff. He had his pay cut by 300 yuan. From an administrative position he was relegated to a support position. Li Yechuan had barely worked for a year before he was again sent to the brainwashing center at the Hong Weixing Center between June and July, 2003 simply because they found a piece of paper in his pocket with information on a website operated outside of China. That same night, Mr. Li was sent to the Chuangye Police Station. The police station was going to send him to the forced labor camp. Handcuffed and brutally beaten, Mr. Li was sent to Honggang Detention Center three days later. As a result of the beatings and the long-term hunger strike, Mr. Li became quite weak. Only then did the detention center release him. However, he was still subject to harassment. Li Yequan was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.

On December 13, 2004, in the Yinlang neighborhood, Mr. Li and other three practitioners were arrested by officers from the Ranghu Road Police Substation. Mr. Li shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," even as he was being gagged and blindfolded by the police and dragged into a vehicle. He continued to shout, "Falun Dafa is good" on the way to the station, and clarified the truth to the public.

Mr. Li also shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" day and night at the detention center. They punished him by making him sit on an iron chair and he was tortured in order to try to make him reveal information about Falun Gong activities and other practitioners. At some point, they sent him to the company's hospital for emergency treatment and later to a hospital at the No. 4 Refinery of Daqing Oilfield. Later on, Mr. Li was forced to become homeless.

At 5 a.m. on September 23, 2005, Li Yequan was again illegally arrested by police from Daqing City. On the night of September 27, the Daqing Public Security Bureau, 610 Office, Judiciary Bureau, and Daqing Forced Labor Camp had a meeting and sent Mr. Li to the Daqing Forced Labor Camp. When Mr. Li's white blood cell count was found to be as high as 20,000, the labor camp refused to admit him. However, Daqing Public Security Bureau Chief Cao called them to say that Ruan Dianlong, the associate party secretary for the municipal government and the legal and political commission, had approved the admission, so they had to admit Mr. Li. As a result, Li Yechuan was sentenced to forced labor for two years without any legal procedures. He is being held in the No. 1 Brigade at Daqing Forced Labor Camp.

Mr. Li has been on hunger strike to protest the persecution, and demands to be released. Ordered by Director of the No.1 Brigade Lai Zhonghui and policeman Wang Yingzhou, several inmates shackled Mr. Li's hands and ankles. He is force-fed three times a day, sometimes for more than four hours. Mr. Li's esophagus has sustained severe injuries and he has slipped into coma many times. The guards or inmates even put the portrait of Master Li on the chair and force him to sit on it and put the book, Zhuan Falun on the seat. Wang Yingzhou, who calls himself a policeman reincarnated from a devil in hell, along with several inmates, forced more than a liter of hard liquor down Mr. Li's throat. They even spat into his throat.

Mr. Li has has had his wages suspended since July 2003. His wife is struggling to support their seven-year-old son with her meager income from her cleaning job. Their life is very miserable. Their son often stares at his father's picture and weeps in private so his mother does not see him crying.

We urgently appeal to all kind-hearted people: Please help Mr. Li Yequan and stop the persecution of Falun Gong.

The front of Daqing Detention Center
Daqing Forced Labor Camp office
The No. 1 Brigade where Mr. Li is being jailed

Taipei Times: Group Salms China's Persecution

2005-12-09T00:24:00.000-06:00

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/12/09/2003283610

Here is another article that talks specifically about the lawyer's situation:

http://longtrekhome.blogspot.com/2005/11/high-profile-chinese-defence-lawyer.html

Many people are deceived by the lies, which have not stopped.

2005-12-06T15:02:00.000-06:00

December 6, 2005
Advocating human rights in China
Many people are deceived by the lies, which have not stopped.
By Yang Zhang

I commend the Daily for publishing the Nov. 30 editorial "Threat of the
peaceful in China." The abuse of Falun Gong practitioners in China is
something not to be ignored. I was appalled to read Lin Wang's strongly
worded "Falun Dafa and ignorance" published Friday. Although he states he is
not a member of the Communist party, everything he said about Falun Gong was
repeating party lines. As an alumnus and a person who grew up in China,
sharing many of the same experiences as Wang, I can see Wang was a victim of
the lies and slanders against Falun Gong.

Wang is not an isolated individual to fall prey to the Chinese Communist
Party. Recently, when nearly 100 tons of the cancer-causing chemical benzene
was dumped into a river near Harbin, a major industrial capital of
northeastern China of 3.8 million people, the government, again, lied to the
people. It took them a week to acknowledge the benzene leak, but by then
many small villages' water source had been contaminated. When the 50-mile
stretch of pollution came near, the city of Harbin shut of its water supply
for five days, but still keeping secret, initially citing reasons for the
shutoff as "water main maintenance."

Two years ago, the Chinese government's lies about SARS cost many innocent
lives in China and abroad. Even today, China still refuses to acknowledge,
let alone apologize for, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Throughout its
history, the Chinese Communist Party has killed approximately 80 million
people through various political movements and man-caused disasters, more
than the two World Wars combined. The movements and killings reveal the true
nature of brutality and carelessness with human lives.

I was 11 years old and living in Beijing when the Tiananmen Square massacre
occurred. Imagine my shock when I realized that nothing reported on TV was
true. I could hear machine-gun shots when the TV anchors stressed that the
turmoil was "rioters and students burning army tanks and fisting soldiers."
The contrast opened my eyes. I hope more Chinese people can read your
editorial "Threat of the peaceful in China" and become vigilant to words and
actions by the Chinese government. I also hope that, having the largest
Chinese student population in the country, the University can be a leader in
advocating for human rights in China.

Yang Zhang is a Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs alumna. Please send
comments to letters@mndaily.com.

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/12/06/66461/

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ChangChun Police Station and atrocities surrounding it.

New Organ Harvesting Related Story

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Video for Global Gala

Global Gala Celebration

Organ Harvesting Details Disclosed

About the Persecution and More

How Do I find More Information on the Persecution in China?

You Tube Videos

Another Example of Persecution for Doing the Right Thing

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Concerned People Telling the World about Falun Gong and the Persecution in China

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Criminal Offense in China

The New Year's Gala Celebration in New York - don't miss it.

Chinese Police don't mind killing and torturing their own

The Persecution of Falun Gong in China

US Congressman Condemns Points Out Organ Harvesting Atrocities

Shocking Video Details Alleged Organ Harvesting Atrocities.

Woman Raped and Tortured by "Authorities"

Printed by "The Citizen" a Canadian Newpaper

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Harvesting organs from living people for profit

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Sing a Petition

Sandstorm - the Movie

Refusing to be Served

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Persecution News Bulletin for August 11th, 2006

August Update from Friends of Falun Gong

Public Forum for Organ Harvesting

Falun Gong July 28th Newsletter

12 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

Historic Torture Lawsuit against Former Head of China

FREE - 69 page Booklet on Organ Harvesting

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Falun Dafa: My Search for the Truth

My Search For The Truth

Organ Harvesting - additional investigations

Persecution stories continue to become available

Chinese Communists Still Forcing Abortions on Parents

Organ Harvesting in Chinese Death Camps Discussed at Auschwitz Forum

Links on the Organ Harvesting Atrocities in China

US. State Department Press Release on Organ Harvesting

Harvesting Organs from Live Falun Gong Practitioners - This is absolutely, undeniably wrong

Another Police Rape

More persecution, including rape

Do You Think the Chinese Communist Party Stops at its own Borders?

Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp: Hung by the Wrists from Steel Wires that Cut to the Bone

Crimes against Women

Instigating Thai Police to Violate Human Rights

Torture, especially the sexual torture, of Falun Gong practitioners

United Nations Special Rapporteur Exposes Widespread Use of Torture

Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

Falun Gong Practitioners Assaulted in Argentina

NEWS BULLETIN

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Many people are deceived by the lies, which have not stopped.