Press Release: Chinese Woman from Germany Being Held While on a Visit to China -- Torture and Brainwashing Feared (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net)

Press Release from the German Falun Gong Information Centre, February 25, 2003:

Ms. Wenrong Lin, age 35, profession - musician, has lived in the German city of Duesseldorf since April 2002. She is studying German at a language school. In January of 2003 she flew to China to visit her family and celebrate the Chinese New Year. She was due back in Germany on February 17th, 2003. When she did not return that day, her housemates in Duesseldorf became concerned and investigated with her family in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province. Ms. Lin is being detained there under the jurisdiction of authorities from the "610 Office," because she practices Falun Gong.

It is unclear at the moment how the "610 Office" authorities are planning to deal with Ms. Lin. Various obstacles exist that prevent the free flow of information out of China to foreign countries regarding her case.

News from Wuhan tells of renewed rounds of arrests. Everyone who is practicing or had at one time practiced Falun Gong is supposedly required to write a statement of regret or will become subjected to "re-education". Eyewitness accounts relate that frequently participants in these "courses" are subjected to brainwashing and torture.

Practitioners in Germany have informed the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (http://www/upholdjustice.org/Eng/index.htm) about Ms. Lin's situation, as well as of the renewed arrests of practitioners in Wuhan and asked them to thoroughly investigate. Friends of Ms. Lin have further contacted the German State Department, the German Legation in Beijing and the German Consulate in Shanghai, to work toward the immediate release and return of Ms. Lin.

In a related matter...

Global Rescue Effort Intensifies

According to comments from Ms. Jin Cong, Toronto, the global rescue effort is intensifying, partly due to the fact that Chinese Falun Gong practitioners living in Western countries are being acutely persecuted. One example is Nancy Chen, living in Australia, who was arrested in China on a visit on January 22, 2003 when she attempted to visit her family.

Thanks to efforts from the Australian government, Ms. Chen is now free once more.

Article from: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200302/10622.html

(Original text in German)

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