News Briefing - 10/26/2001
WORLDWIDE SUPPORT
In Canada, two teams of Falun Gong practitioners who walked from Toronto and
Montreal arrived in Ottawa. During the welcoming ceremony and press conference,
Colleen Beaumier, M.P. and Vice-Chair of the Canadian Foreign Affairs Committee,
stated, "You will surely succeed, because truthfulness, benevolence and
forbearance give you strength."
The City Council of Elizabeth City, New Jersey declared October 25, 2001 as
"Falun Dafa Day" and passed the resolution to condemn the persecution
and repression of Falun Gong practitioners.
On October 11, 2001, Mayor David P. Bonacchi of the City of East Rochester,
New York issued a proclamation to Falun Dafa and condemned the Chinese
government for the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
On October 18, 2001, Anna Linda, the Swedish Foreign Minister, stated in a
letter to the parliament that Sweden has long-term measures in urging China to
stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and to respect human rights.
The Asia-Pacific Division of the Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry stated in a
letter to Falun Gong practitioners that the Dutch government will continue to
pay close attention to the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese
government and other human rights issues, and will also raise such topics for
discussion in the European Union and in the United Nations.
Robert V. Gallagher, Mayor of City of Blind River, Canada, Laurence Boyer,
Chief of the Missisauga First Nation, and E.W. Linley, Reeve of Town Council,
Huron Shores, Canada wrote letters to the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean
Chretien, to urge the Chinese government to stop persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners and to support the "SOS Walk."
On October 26, 2001, Canadian MP John Godfrey stated that many people in the
parliament are supportive of Falun Gong. An official from the Ontario Charity
Organization complimented that the "SOS Walk" is an "effective
way to spread the message of peace."
A UN human rights commissioner cited more than 400 torture cases of Falun
Gong practitioners in last year's annual report. This commissioner requested to
the Chinese government in vain for an on-site investigation. Instead, he is only
allowed for limited prison visits. Because the commissioner's request was
refused, this issue has been in deadlock since.
LATEST NEWS FROM CHINA
During the October 1 National Day holiday, a speaker system had broadcast the
truth of Falun Dafa under the national flag in Tiananmen Square. Falun Dafa
practitioners hung up thirty 6-meter-long banners and six speakers in Beijing,
and effectively eradicated the evil.
A large number of policemen were dispatched in railroad stations and bus
stations in all major cities in Mainland China to interrogate and examine the
travelers. Shenyang City also dispatched heavily armed policemen.
In a city in China, a Falun Dafa practitioner went to the park to post
truth-clarifying materials. However, the practitioner was seen by two
plain-clothed policemen. The practitioner was not afraid at all and thought that
no one could interfere with any truth-clarifying activities, and silently
recited the Fa-rectification verse. The practitioner walked by the wicked
policemen and when he looked back, he found that the policemen were not moving.
Falun Gong practitioner Yang Mei, of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, was
killed by force-feeding. Twelve people are responsible; their phone numbers are
omitted in this briefing.
At 6 o'clock in the morning of 19th, many people heard a Falun
Gong broadcast at a busy area in a city in Shandong Province. Policemen rushed
to find and take down the speaker. Before they were able to complete the task,
police at two other sites in the city reported similar Falun Gong broadcasts.
From the 15th to the 18th, in a city in Henan Province,
Falun Gong practitioners hung several 16-meter-long [about 50 feet]
banners in front of the city call and in the city plaza garden. The banners
said, "SOS: Stop Killing Falun Gong (Practitioners)," "Falun Dafa
is Good," "Immediately Abolish the 610 Office and Punish Luo Gan."
This has seriously shocked the evil people.
A provincial government leader praised Falun Gong practitioners publicly,
saying that they had five good characters: good health, good mood, good work,
good writing, and good moral quality. This leader and many of his colleagues
knew that Falun Gong practitioners are as firm as rocks despite whatever heavy
pressure is forced upon them.
In the latter part of September, Falun Gong practitioners in a city in
northeast China used many forms to clarify truth of Falun Gong in the streets
and inside resident buildings. They floated banners with balloons, hung banners
on buildings, used speakers to play broadcasts, sprayed or wrote words onto
walls, printed and pasted words, and distributed cassettes, VCDs, and other
materials. This has vigorously eradicated evil influences in their city.
On the 24th, there appeared ten instances of "Falun Dafa is
Good" in red paint near a city hall in northeast China. It was quite
exciting and encouraging. Another city in the northeast had a Falun Dafa
experience sharing conference on the 20th. Practitioners from seven
different areas attended. The atmosphere of the meeting was serene, solemn, and
sacred. The stories of Dafa disciples' giving up the attachment of life and
death, giving up selfness, safeguarding Dafa, and balancing Fa-rectification and
personal cultivation encouraged every attendee.
Falun Gong practitioners refused to attend a brainwashing class, which
originally planned to start in October in a city in northeast China. Because
nobody attended, a community director and a judicial assistant were forced to
attend the class to make up the number.
During the National Day holiday (October 1), many Falun Gong practitioners
were arrested and large amounts of personal properties were confiscated.
Shenzhen City is having a comic contest of slandering and defaming Falun
Gong. The date for final entry is December 30, 2001. Those practitioners who see
this news, please send forth righteous thoughts together to eradicate the evil
behind this.
Zhang Wei, a student of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, was captured while
distributing Falun Gong materials. Those who know her situation, please provide
her whereabouts. Another practitioner also was seized, but his (or her) spouse
immediately transferred the materials of Falun Gong truth safely to other
places. The spouse also gave the materials to colleagues to read, and said,
"I believe there will be a day that the Fa is rectified."
On September 29, in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, the Nanwei Police
Station deputy director Zhang Zhiguo, policemen Sun Shulong, and 3 others came
to Falun Gong practitioners' home and pounded at the doors. They used iron clubs
to pry and pound. They also threw bricks through windows upstairs. They were
more ferocious than brigands.
Fifty-seven-year-old Dafa practitioner Wang Shurong was captured for lawfully
appealing for Falun Gong last year. She was detained in No. 2 Detention Center
in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, and her personal freedom was severely
confined. Her captors forced her to sleep on a flat surface only six inches
wide, so she could only turn over once each night. The daily allowance to
relieve herself was once for bowel movements and thrice for urination.
Sixty-year-old Dafa practitioner Wang Shuxing was captured for lawfully
appealing for Falun Gong last year. The "610 Office" extorted over
10,000 Yuan "bail" from her family. [10,000 Yuan is about 20 months
income in Chinese cities.] She was captured again this April and has not
been released since.
Li Shuxiang and Qiu Ke from Langfang, Hebei Province have enlightened along
an evil path. They coordinated with the evil forces and went to labor camps and
detention centers to confuse other practitioners. They have committed monstrous
crimes against Dafa. Now they continue their wrongdoings in two brainwashing
classes in Langfang. We hope practitioners can send forth righteous thoughts to
eradicate this evil.
Liu Qingbo, a policeman at the Changhong Street Police Station in Da'an City,
Jilin Province, arrested practitioner Wu Tonglin for declaring that he would
continue to practice Falun Gong. When the arrest was made, Wu was just released
from a detention center and on his way home.
103 practitioners solemnly declared that the public statements they signed
denouncing Falun Gong were null and void. These practitioners were forcefully
brainwashed, severely beaten, and threatened with expulsion from their schools.
It was under these circumstances that they signed the statements. These
practitioners vowed that they would continue to practice Falun Gong and
redoubled their efforts in clarifying the truth and eradicating the evil.
Practitioner Han Shengli, a retired worker from Xinwen Mining Industry Group
Ltd., Shandong Province, was tortured to death in August 2001 in the Xintai
Detention Center. Han was forcefully brainwashed in May. He then unfurled a
banner reading "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" on Tiananmen
Square.
Many practitioners in Meihekou, Jilin Province were arrested, forcefully
brainwashed and brutally tortured on the "death bed." (The four
limbs of the practitioner are spread out and tied to the four corners of an
icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all and is not allowed to
get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment lasts from several
hours up to more than a dozen days.) The policemen said to them, "Falun
Gong practitioners have no rights whatsoever!"
A righteous security officer told his friend overseas that he and some of his
colleagues in the security department had been documenting in detail cases
relating to Falun Gong, in particular serious cases resulting in death and
disability. He said that those who are committing these hideous crimes could
never imagine that people around them would be collecting evidence of their
crimes.
A taxi driver who often drives families and friends of detained practitioners
to the labor camps for visits once spoke out and stopped the police from
harassing these people. On another occasion, this driver told his neighbor how
her daughter who worked in a detention camp shocked the private areas of women
practitioners using electric batons. That evening when this neighbor saw her
daughter, she was totally disgusted and furiously spoke out against her.
Wang Jishan, the manager of the 610 Office in Linxi, Shandong Province, had a
notorious record of persecuting Falun Dafa and its practitioners. His vicious
deeds brought about retribution to his family members. This summer, his wife
fell and broke her arm.
Some of the practitioners in China wrote to the Shuanghe Labor Camp in
Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, demanding that they stop the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners.
In the middle of October, practitioners detained in Shuanghe Labor Camp tore
off a flag denouncing Falun Gong from the wall. As a result, they were later
severely beaten by a guard. The practitioners in this labor camp are asking
those who were involved in the beating of practitioners to be punished.
A practitioner strongly believes that practitioners should not focus on their
own gain and loss, for example one's own consummation, building one's
magnificence and virtue, and personal fame. He equates this kind of thinking to
selfishness. He believes that practitioners should view everything from Fa's
perspective. Those who are unable to do so are not in the best and most
righteous position. This practitioner was arrested and put in a brainwashing
class, but he was able to escape.
On September 24, 2001, 24 practitioners clarified the truth on Tiananmen
Square. Four were arrested, but one escaped from the Detention Camp as a result
of her righteous thoughts and righteous faith.
On the eve of the National Day, more than 80 practitioners from a city in
northeastern China went to Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth. A
five-year-old shouted on the Jinshui Bridge, "Falun Gong is good!"
These practitioners showed the world how magnificent and solemn Dafa is.
Practitioner Daqiang and his wife managed to get away from security officers
pursuing them and went to Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth during the New
Year celebration. Daqiang was arrested several times and tortured, but he was
able to escape and continued his work in Fa clarification as a result of his
righteous thoughts.
VALIDATING DAFA OUTSIDE OF CHINA
In order to expose the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by
Jiang Zemin's regime, a practitioner living in England went outside to practice
Dafa exercises. Many kindhearted people lined up, waiting to sign the petition
to show their support and condemn the persecution.
The Calgary walk team in Canada started their journey on October 16. They
will bring the wonderfulness of Dafa to kindhearted people they meet along the
way. Some media promised to write a detailed report about China's persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners.
October 22 marks the third day of "The path of validating Dafa"--a
walk event by Falun Gong practitioners in Yilan County, Taiwan. The walkers
clarified the truth of Falun Gong to people along the way.
On October 24, the SOS! RescueDrive across Australia team arrived in
Bundabory. Upon arrival, Falun Gong practitioners received interviews from
various media. Later on, practitioners also visited several government
departments.
In the past two months, Washington practitioners have been clarifying the
truth and exposing the evil on Capitol Hill. They displayed the wonderfulness of
Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance) and provided the
Chinese delegation and tourists the chance to learn more about the truth of
Falun Gong.
On October 21, Dallas practitioners successfully concluded a 24-day (12 hours
per day) Hongfa event at the annual Texas State Fair.
MEDIA REPORT
Mr. Willy Wo-LapLam, CNN senior analyst of China issues, pointed out on
October 24 that Beijing is suppressing Falun Gong and other groups under the
banner of anti-terrorism.
On October 24, Sun (a newspaper in Toronto) published a letter from a
reader which pointed out that the true terror in China comes from the rulers of
the country, who use violence, propaganda and threats to control everybody
within China.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/10/27/18628.html
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