RFI (Radio France Internationale): Practitioners Call Upon the German Government to Press China to Release Lin Wenrong
(Clearwisdom.net)
On the morning of March 8 2003, RFI broadcast the following news in Chinese
to residents in Mainland China and the Paris region:
"Ms. Lin Wenrong graduated from Wuhan Music College in Hubei
Province and came to Germany for further studies. Recently, when she went back
to China to visit her family, the police illegally arrested her because she
practises Falun Gong. International Falun Gong Associations have launched a
global SOS rescue effort to appeal for her release. Practitioners in Germany
have appealed outside the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, calling on the
German government to press China to release Ms. Lin Wenrong. Regarding the case
of Lin Wenrong, another Chinese lady, Ms. Zheng Zhihong, who is studying law in
Germany, told RFI:
"We have just heard of the arrest of Lin Wenrong. We are very
shocked by the news. She was arrested and sent to a forced brainwashing class
just because she practises Falun Gong. Now we have more accurate information
about her. She is detained in the Xiajiadian Labour Camp in Shiyan City, Hubei
Province. The labour camp was specifically set up for persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners. Practitioners are sent to the class for mental "re-education,"
which in fact, is a forced brainwashing class. There practitioners are subjected
to mental persecution or even torturing. After hearing the news, practitioners
in Germany and other countries around the world are urgently calling for her
immediate release."
"The city government in Dusseldorf, where Lin Wenrong was
studying, is showing serious concern for her case. They are trying every
possible means to impose pressure on China to release Ms. Lin Wenrong. We have
informed Amnesty International of the detention of Lin Wenrong, and they have
submitted the case to their headquarters in London, which is conducting an
investigation into the case of Lin Wenrong."
"We have also written an appeal letter to the German Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Recently a human rights official in the German Ministry of
Foreign Affairs also met three Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners
handed him an appeal letter for the German Foreign Minister. The official told
the practitioners that the German Embassy in China is investigating the case.
Later, we also called the German Embassy in China whose staff promised us that
they would try their best in obtaining Lin Wenrong's release. Through diplomatic
channels, they will pressure China to immediately release Ms. Lin Wenrong."
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