By Falun Dafa Practitioners in Pittsburgh
(Clearwisdom.net) Amnesty International, Carnegie Mellon University Chapter
and University of Pittsburgh Chapter, hosted a Human Rights Protection Event in
McConomy Auditorium on Carnegie Mellon University campus from 7pm to 9pm, March
10, 2003. The theme of the event was "Persecution in China Hits Close to Home"
and "She could not be silent," calling for help rescuing Dr. Cailu Xu's wife,
Xiaomei Jia, who has been imprisoned for over a year in Beijing Forced Labor
Camp for practicing Falun Gong and distributing Falun Gong flyers.
Dr. Cailu Xu has been an associative professor in the Department of Mechanism
in Tsinghua University in China. His wife, Ms. Xiaomei Jia, an engineer, had
been illegally arrested three times in the year of 2000 and her workplace
suspended her from her job. In November 2001, Xiaomei was once again abducted
and sent to a forced labor camp. Since then, Dr. Xu and their 13-year-old son
have not gotten a chance to see Xiaomei. The only news they heard was that
Xiaomei has been suffering various kinds of mental tortures simply because she
would not abandon her practice of Falun Gong. About 50 people attended the event. Two reporters, one from WTAE TV (ABC
local news) and another from WPXI 11 News (NBC local news), came to the event
and interviewed Dr. Cailu Xu. Ms. Elizabeth Przybylski from Amnesty International, Carnegie Mellon
University Chapter gave the opening remarks. Pittsburgh City Councilman Mr.
William Peduto attended the event and delivered a supportive speech. Hongming Jin, a software engineer at Pittsburgh, introduced the persecution
of Falun Gong in China, including the case of Dr. Charles Li. Then, Dr. Cailu Xu,
a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh, spoke about his wife's
ordeal and their family tragedy after the persecution. Students and local residents are very concerned about the safety of Xiaomei
Jia and Charles Li. They signed their names on the petition forms in front of
the auditorium. During the reception period, many students stayed and started to
write letters to their local congressmen/women, expressing their concerns for
Dr. Cailu Xu's wife, urging their congressmen/women to rescue her. Copies of
their letters will be sent to the Chinese Premier, the Chinese Embassy in the US
and the Beijing Female Forced Labor Camp where Xiaomei is being held. Both ABC and NBC local news broadcast reports on the event and their
interviews with Dr. Cailu Xu on the Evening News between 11:00pm and 11:30pm.
Posting date: 3/15/2003
Original article date: 3/15/2003
Category: Worldwide Support
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/3/14/46423.html