By Falun Gong practitioners in Macao
(Clearwisdom.net)
In the past three years, representatives of Macao's police department have
been following Falun Gong practitioners, seriously violating Macao's laws and
human rights. Falun Gong practitioners have appealed to the procurator and
sued the police for abuse of police power and infringement of human rights,
but have received no official response. Practitioners also went to police
department to complain about being tracked illegally. A policeman on duty
replied, "You could also track them." This kind of absurd response can do
nothing but damage the police's image.
The surveillance has escalated of late. On February 8th, 2003 while Falun
Gong practitioners were practicing the exercises, plainclothes police began
videotaping them. When the practice finished and practitioners started to
leave the park, the police followed them. Some practitioners were followed to
their home, videotaped all the way, even upon entering the building and
getting into the elevator.
In the afternoon, practitioners distributed truth clarification materials
at tourist attractions. The police department added yet another police officer
and videotaped each practitioner at close distance while they were sending
forth righteous thoughts.
On February 9th, Sunday morning, practitioners sent forth
righteous thoughts at 5, 6 and 7 am, and studied the Fa and practiced the
exercises across from the Chinese government Liaison Office until 9:30. The
police came early in the morning and videotaped nearly the entire process.
After that they tracked a female student home. They recorded details of her
whole environment, including her entrance to the building and her climbing the
staircase, as if they were shooting a documentary film, totally inconceivable.
Judging from the events over these two days, it seems that the police are
documenting individual cases of Falun Gong practitioners who come out in
public to clarify the truth and are trying to keep abreast of each
practitioner's situation. But the police are trying to hide their behavior. A
practitioner photographed him when he was videotaping, and the policeman
evaded and tried to hide.
From the police's behavior, we can see that under the pressure of Jiang
regime, some help the tyrant do evil in persecuting Dafa and practitioners.
Some police one time threatened: "You are Falun Gong. We may take you to the
police station anytime." Hong Kong is pushing Article 23, which has drawn the
attention of people around the world. Macao is also implementing Article 23,
but little is known of this in the outside world. From the outside it looks
quite peaceful, but inside Macao, the government is pushing forward the
legislation. It seems they were competing with Hong Kong to see who could
implement the subversion law first. Macao's Article 23 has not yet emerged,
yet the persecution has suddenly escalated. We admonish those with evil
intentions to awaken! We hope you can treat Falun Gong with benevolence,
conscience and fairness. Be responsible to yourselves and be responsible to
society.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/2/10/44302.html