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Deaths of 25 Falun Gong Practitioners Verified in March
Actual Toll Estimated at Five to Ten Times Higher than Verified Number; Ages Range 20-78
The deaths of 25 more Falun Gong practitioners in China as a result of state-run persecution were verified in March, according to reliable sources. Among them are details of recent deaths, as well as information about deaths that had been covered up for over four years.
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In The News: China
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Products Worldwide Made by Falun Gong Slave Labor
Labor Camps Reduce Production Costs to Shore up Chinese Exports
NEW YORK (FDI) - Mr. Wang Jiangping is handicapped and can’t knit as fast as the others. It’s almost 2:00 a.m. and the Division Six prisoners have been working since dawn. They have to meet the deadline. His fellow Falun Gong practitioners nod off only to be wakened by guards stabbing them with scissors. The guards throw bricks at his chest. The Changji Labor Camp has to meet Tianshan Wooltex’s quota of Kashmir sweaters, or the guards won’t get their bonus. The Chinese "reform through labor" camps have become privatized. They are small enterprises that sign contracts with big companies and export products to overseas shopping malls. It is a place where torturers get rich, and where Falun Gong practitioners slave to pay for the purchase of the electric batons that will shock them if they slow down.
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30 Torture and Severe Abuse-related Deaths of Falun Gong Practitioners Reported in February
NEW YORK (FDI) - During the month of February 2004, details of 30 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China were uncovered despite a continued black-out maintained by Chinese authorities on information about Falun Gong-related cases. Many of the deaths occurred in the past few months, while some were deaths from 2002 and 2001 that have only recently been uncovered.
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As the UN Human Rights Commission Meets in Geneva, Ms. Wang Guofang Dies from Torture in China's Daqing City
On March 15, 2004, her family received a phone call from the labor camp. They were told that Wang Guofang was being released and were instructed to come to the labor camp. When the family arrived, Wang Guofang was dead. Her family saw deep handcuff marks on both her wrists and that the flesh on her chest was burned and discolored like a piece of meat. In deep grief, her family asked what had happened, the camp section head told them that Wang had died from heart attack and that during the "rescue process," the use of an electric baton had caused the burns on her chest.
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How Mr. Xun Ruilin Was Persecuted Before Death
The chief of the police department, Li Zhide, ordered four or five policemen to beat Xun Ruilin, which they did until his white shirt turned red. Later Xun Ruilin was sent to the police station in Chenan town to be tortured and interrogated, however, Xun Ruilin refused to cooperate and did not say anything. Since the police could not get what they wanted, they transferred him to the police department in Linzhang county for more severe treatment. There, Xun Ruilin immediately went on hunger strike to protest his illegal and brutal treatment, whereupon the police from Linzhang county and Chenan county decided to force-feed him as a form of torture.
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Teacher Mr. Liu Jie Dies as Result of Persecution - Fuyang City, Anhui Province
Liu Jie, a 35 year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was a teacher at the Datian Middle School in Xihu County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province. On October 11, 2003, at around three in the afternoon, Liu Jie's younger brother received an unexpected phone call from the director of the detention center. He informed the younger brother that Liu Jie was in critical condition at the Second People Hospital. Liu Jie's younger brother rushed to the hospital. His brother was lying in bed, completely paralyzed and unable to speak. There was saliva dripping out of his mouth.
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Brutal Acts of Hebei Police: Electric Shock Torture, Force-Feeding Water Laced With Cayenne Pepper, Yanking Out Teeth with Pliers
After that they used an electric baton. They poured some water on my legs and then started to shock me. I immediately felt the powerful electric current go directly to my heart. My heart and blood vessels experienced huge pressure, and felt as if they could not expand anymore. What followed immediately was that I felt that my chest was swollen and I could barely breathe, as if my heart had stopped beating.
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In The News: North America
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Human rights in China merit our attention
(Yale Daily News)
The United States introduced a resolution last week in Geneva at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) conference, advocating human rights in China. However, few countries chose to take a stand on this issue and the resolution was tabled once more. It seems as if China's troubling human rights violations are too far away for people to take notice.
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Worldwide Appeals Identify Four Chinese Officials Who Lead the Atrocities against Falun Gong
Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang and Liu Jing Identified as Senior Leaders who Direct Violent Campaign against Falun Gong
LOS ANGELES (FDI) - In more than 20 countries during the past few months, Falun Gong practitioners have been holding appeals and press conferences to highlight four Chinese officials who lead the campaign to "eradicate Falun Gong" in China.
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CW: Canadian Victim of Jiang Zemin's Persecution of Falun Gong Asks Canada's Justice Minister to Allow Chinese Officials to be Prosecuteds
(Clearwisdom) As reported by the Central News Agency on March 15, 2004, Professor Zhang Kunlun, a Canadian citizen and a Falun Gong practitioner, has asked the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Mr. Irwin Cotler, in a letter, to permit Ottawa criminal lawyer Mr. Lawrence Greenspon and Winnipeg-based international legal expert Mr. David Matas to act as private prosecutors in a lawsuit to bring Mr. Zhang's persecutors to justice. If granted, the lawyers could seek an arrest warrant for Professor Zhang's alleged Chinese torturers, including Jiang Zemin; Luo Gan; Liu Jing; Wu Guanzheng and 18 other Chinese officials who participated in the persecution against Professor Zhang Kunlun.
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Forum 18/CWNews.com: China: Religious Freedom Stunted Despite Constitutional Guarantees
Earlier this month, as China's National People's Congress passed constitutional amendments addressing the issue of human rights, outside the congress doors the secret police was crushing possible dissent. Religious believers, including a Catholic bishop and a Protestant house church leader, were among those detained. Two other Protestants who researched the 2003 crackdown on unofficial churches in Hanzhou had just been indicted, while hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners, thousands of Protestants and many Vatican-loyal Catholics and other believers languish in prisons and labor camps.
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Asia Pacific Media Network: Reporters Without Borders Raises Alarm over Mushrooming Internet Repression in China
Cyberdissident Ma Yalian has been sentenced to 18 months in a work re-education camp for posting articles on the Internet exposing failings in China's complaints system for its citizens. At the same time the authorities have extended filtering of weblogs.
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Carleton News (Ottawa): Slaying the Dragon
A Falun Gong Practitioner and Torture Victim Fights Back Against his Persecutors
(Carleton News) Grey-haired Kunlun Zhang watches from the front row of the court room, arms crossed, just a shadow’s length away from a stuffed nylon dummy, clad in a grey suit, sitting at a table for the defense. "The people have charged former Chinese dictator, Jiang Zemin, with; among other charges, conspiracy to destroy the spiritual practice of Falun Gong, torture, abuse of authority, genocide and crimes against humanity," says the judge at the front of the courtroom.
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CW: Rally in DC Supports Human Rights in China
(Clearwisdom.net, April 7, 2004) While the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Commission meeting continues in Geneva, the deterioration of human rights in China has again become a focus of the international community. At noon on April 6, about 100 people from all circles rallied at Farragut Square of downtown Washington DC. The theme of the rally was, "Oppose the Persecution of Falun Gong in China; Support the U.S. Resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission Meeting."
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Providence Journal, RI: China Flouts Law
China's elite doesn't like crowds. In 1989 students pushing for democratic reforms massed in Tiananmen Square, only to be mown down by the tanks of the People's Liberation Army. In 1999 Communist Party members awoke to see ranks of silent Falun Gong practitioners lining the streets of the party bosses' residential enclave in Beijing; China then outlawed the [practice] and many of its adherents are still in prison.
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In The News: Australia
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The Age: Council Ordered to Apologise to Falun Dafa
(The Age) The Melbourne City Council (MCC) has been ordered to publish an apology for discriminating against the meditation group Falun Dafa by barring it from the city's 2003 Moomba Parade. The Falun Dafa Association of Victoria had been given a spot in the parade and had finished preparations when the council changed its mind and told them they could not participate.
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Fed: National Protests Against Human Rights Abuse
BRISBANE, April 5 AAP - Protest rallies against human rights abuse in China will be staged across Australia today and tomorrow as part of global action to lobby the United Nations. The UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), which is currently chaired by Australian diplomat Mike Smith, is meeting in Geneva this month for the 60th session of the commission.
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ABC Online, Australia: Falun Gong complaint going before UN
(ABC Online, Australia) High profile Gold Coast lawyer Chris Nyst travels to Geneva, Switzerland, today to formally lodge a complaint with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights alleging an Australian citizen was persecuted in China four years ago. Mr Nyst believes it is the first complaint on behalf of an individual - a female Australian citizen - to the United Nations about the treatment of people practising [Falun Gong].
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Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate: Worried Mum Enlists MP
A Hornsby mother worried about her daughter who was imprisoned in China for practising Falun Gong, has turned to Berowra Federal Liberal MP Philip Ruddock for support.
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In The News: Europe
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Tribune de Genève: Victims Testify of Economic Slavery in Chinese Labor Camps
Is the Aggressiveness of Chinese Exports Based on the Exploitation and Torture of Prisoners?
Would the world's factories employ millions of slaves? "In China, a thousand grim-looking forced labor camps produce, at unbeatable prices, goods that flood our markets: wigs, jewels, toys, balls, clothes. The Chinese economy, on the way to world domination, threatens our businesses and our jobs. It is based on unacceptable working conditions, massive violations of human rights and of ILO conventions."
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CW: WOIPFG Publishes New Book, "Investigation Reports on the Persecution of Falun Gong"
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) announced on April 6, 2004 that it had published a new book "Investigation Reports on the Persecution of Falun Gong," and its spokesman Mr. John Jaw would introduce the book for the first time in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting is being held.
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