BEIJING, Aug 17, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A Falun Gong spokesman denied Friday four people jailed by a Chinese court for organizing a mass suicide attempt were group members and rejected the trial as another plot to destroy the movement.

"All along this has been an ugly performance created by (Chinese President) Jiang Zemin. It's purpose is to slander and frame Falun Gong and to create an excuse to destroy Falun Gong," said Hong Kong spokesman Kan Hung-cheung.

"We believe these people are not Falun Gong members because Falun Gong has all along opposed killings, including suicide. Real Falun Gong students wouldn't participate in a self-immolation," Kan said.

"The people involved are not real Falun Gong students. They are victims. This reveals Jiang's evil. It has exposed that his suppression of Falun Gong is cruel and he will stop at nothing."

[...]

http://www.europeaninternet.com/china/news.php3?id=600348§ion=default

Posting date: 8/18/2001
Original article date: 8/17/2001
Category: News & Media Reports

 Yearly Archive  Printer Version

_____Related Articles_____ Clarifying the Truth on the BBC's World News TV Program [8/18/2001] Video: Six-minute Video Analysis in Spanish: "Astonishing Mystery of the Self-immolation" [8/11/2001] I Discovered the Truth Behind the Tiananmen Immolation and Murder During My Detention [8/2/2001] Police from Baiguo Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province Burn Female Practitioner to Death and Call It "Self-Immolation" [7/31/2001] Self-Immolation Deconstruction Video Exposes Jiang Zemin's Elaborate Deception  [6/17/2001] Self-Immolation or Deception? [4/28/2001] China National Security Bureau Involved in Self-Immolation Incident [4/25/2001] Toronto Practitioners Call A Press Conference and Show the Video, "Uncovering the Truth of the Self-Immolation"  [4/11/2001] Self-Immolation In Tiananmen Square: A Staged Event Witnessed By Falun Gong Practitioners [3/22/2001] The Head of the Dalian City Labor Camp Reveals the Truth Behind the "Self-Immolation" Episode [3/22/2001]