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Central News Agency: Local Governments' Liaison Offices in Beijing Have Become Prisons for Falun Gong Practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) Central News Agency reporter Zeng Zhiyuan's special report
on February 18, 2002 from New York: Falun Dafa Information Center reports that
the local governments' liaison offices in Beijing have been converted into
temporary prisons for Falun Dafa practitioners who have gone to Beijing to
appeal. Meanwhile, in order to more effectively control the local governments
during the persecution campaign, the central government has implemented a
"guilt by association" policy. Falun Gong practitioners from other
cities are detained in the Beijing liaison office of that city, and that city's
police department is also penalized.
The Falun Dafa Information Center, headquartered in New York, has pointed out
that in order to advance their careers and personal interests, policemen from
different provinces and counties stationed in Beijing have been very violent
with Falun Gong practitioners from their jurisdictions. Quite a few death cases
have already occurred in the Beijing liaison offices of the different provinces.
In order not to involve their families, many out-of-town Falun Gong
practitioners have refused to disclose their names and addresses. Those
practitioners who were tortured to death were treated as unidentified victims.
Falun Gong practitioner Lu Shuqiu from Jilin City, Jilin Province was recently
killed inside his home province's Beijing liaison office.
Falun Dafa Information Center has received information from within the
Security Department that the Jiang regime has once again escalated its
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners before the Chinese New Year. At least
369 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a direct result of police brutality in
the two years since the persecution campaign against Falun Gong began.
In addition, Falun Gong's web site, Clearwisdom.net, has indicated that
recently the death toll of Falun Gong practitioners has risen rapidly. There
were 28 deaths reported in January alone, nearly one per day.
Posting date: 3/1/2002 |