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SinoSat Is Tapped; "Jiang Zemin Facing Lawsuit" Program Shown in China
(Clearwisdom.net) We have recently received many letters and calls from
audiences in China, saying that TV programs in Mainland China were replaced with
Falun Gong programs. On August 15th, for two or three minutes the audience saw a
TV program saying that Jiang Zemin is facing lawsuits abroad for persecuting
Falun Gong.
TV programs in China were recently tapped into several times
According to a report by Xinhua Net in Beijing on August 15th,
a journalist learned from the Ministry of Information Industry Radio Monitoring
Center, that at 9:05 p.m. on August 12th and at 8:23 p.m. on August
13th, Falun Gong-related programs appeared successively on China
Education TV, CCTV and ten provincial TV stations. This was confirmed
by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Radio Film and
Television. Xinhua News Agency didn't reveal the content of the tapped
program to the audience.
At around 9:20 p.m. on August 15, a Falun Gong practitioner in China
contacted Minghui Net and said he saw Falun Gong-related pictures on TV.
"It seems to be saying that Jiang Zemin was being sued abroad."
It was learned that two days ago, the Radio Free Asia broadcast
station received phone calls from people in China, saying that at 9 p.m. on
Tuesday, 30 minutes of Falun Gong practitioners exercising and other videos were
aired on TV in Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia.
Voice of America was also queried about the tapping incident in Mongolia.
Some people also thought they were watching a rebroadcast with the world-wide
broadcasting by NTDTV in North America, since NTDTV broadcasts programs to
China, some of which include Falun Gong-related topics.
The lawsuits against Jiang shock Zhongnanhai
In October 2002, eight Falun Gong practitioners in the United States filed a
lawsuit against Jiang Zemin with the U.S. Federal District Court in Chicago,
accusing Jiang of single-handedly starting and driving the persecution.
According to overseas media, this court case has brought a major shock to
Zhongnanhai [the Chinese Central Government compound]. Jiang Zemin and
the "610 Office," which was specifically established for persecuting
Falun Gong, are currently using diplomatic channels to let the United States and
other countries know that "Jiang Zemin is willing to pay any price to
prevent this case from being prosecuted."
Some government officials reveal that Chinese diplomatic officials are
"very nervous" when expressing Beijing's stance on the U.S.-based
lawsuit against Jiang. They are so afraid of making a mistake that they read
Beijing's "attitude" word by word by following an official document.
According to private information from an official in a Chinese embassy,
orders have been given for the embassy to report all court proceedings and media
coverage related to the lawsuit against Jiang "immediately" to the
high level officials in Beijing, because the standing committee members of the
CCP need to review all such information immediately.
According to a recent report in Epoch Times, an article entitled
"10,000 word report: an investigational report of Jiang's history, the time
he joined the Party and other issues," appeared on a website in China and
shocked the readers. It claims that several items on Jiang's resume submitted to
the Party were made up. It is highly unusual that such a report could be
published on a website in China. It was learned that a group consisting of
high-level Party officials have finished investigating Jiang's personal history.
They found that Jiang has played important roles in many of the great lies
spread by the Party. Other than Falun Gong, he had ties with the Tiananmen
Massacre on June 4th, 1989, some important financial crimes and some
international incidents related to Sino-U.S. relations.
Numerous lawsuits against Jiang
News about the lawsuits against Jiang Zemin is blocked in China but it has
gained great momentum overseas.
Followed by the filing of the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin in October 2002 in
the U.S., in March 2003, Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland announced their
plan to sue Jiang Zemin. On August 1, 2003, practitioners in Canada announced
that they were preparing for a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin for his persecution
of Falun Gong. On August 9th, Falun Gong practitioners in England
announced that they were preparing to sue Jiang.
Moreover, for a lawsuit pending in Australia, a well-known international
lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, has agreed to provide help for a lawsuit against
Jiang. "Friends of Falun Gong" in Australia published a news release
on August 14th: "Zhang Cuiying, a renowned traditional Chinese
artist, files a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin because she was brutally tortured
and persecuted in China for practicing Falun Gong. A meeting on the Gold Coast
last week between Ms. Zhang's legal team - Nyst Lawyers and the UK-based Mr.
Robertson, resolved to prosecute the case through a number of
international channels. Mr. Robertson also plans to personally lodge it with
the Human Rights Commission within the United Nation in New York."
Mr. Nyst said Ms Zhang's case is "very specific, strong and
cogent," adding that "it is an action with a strong chance for
success."
Lies cover up the persecution
Beginning in 1996, Falun Gong practitioners' freedom of belief and basic
human rights started being violated by Jiang Zemin and his accomplices. After
July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan used the government machinery to openly
persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
Many firsthand witness accounts of Falun Gong practitioners in China show the
policy formulated by Jiang Zemin and "610 Office"* is "defaming
their reputation, bankrupting them financially, destroy them physically."
According to verifiable statistics on the Clearwisdom website, during the
past four years, more than 760 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of
persecution, because they refused to give up the practice of
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. In late October 2001, statistics from the Chinese
government show the actual death toll has reached 1,600. At least 6,000
practitioners have been illegally sentenced to prison, and hundreds of thousands
of practitioners were sent to labor camps. The tortures used by police and labor
camps around the country on these Falun Gong practitioners include long-term
sleep deprivation (as long as two weeks or more), shocking practitioners
simultaneously with several high-voltage electric batons at sensitive body parts
(including the mouth, chest, armpits, breasts and private parts), beating with
limbs tied in four opposite directions, and many others.
They also use a dungeon, a water dungeon, the "dead person's bed,"
sitting on planks to torture practitioners or lock them up in solitary
confinement; they force practitioners to sit on metal chairs, subject them to
the "tiger bench" (a torture designed to break a person's leg), to do
squats for a long period of time. They tie up the practitioners with rope and
insert metal nails under the practitioners' fingernails, pinch the
practitioners' bodies with pliers, pull out the practitioners' nails with
pliers, etc.
According witnesses' accounts, the police followed the policies from Jiang
Zemin, that "No law regulates the treatment of Falun Gong
practitioners," and "death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is
nothing and shall be counted as suicide; the body shall be directly cremated
without investigating the person's identification."
However, all of these brutal facts were covered up by systematic lies
originating with Jiang and persons from the "610 Office." TV stations,
newspapers and radio broadcasts controlled by the Chinese government
continuously demonize the victims. Unfortunately, history is repeating itself.
Under the "one voice" system in China, in addition to the severe
blockade of outside information, many people gradually believed the words of the
government, just as back during the numerous political persecutions, many people
believed that the people suppressed by the government were against the Party and
against the people, and therefore were unpardonable criminals.
Symbolic Public Trial and Lawsuits Abroad
On July 22, 2003, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in the United States
held a symbolic public trial of Jiang Zemin in front of Capitol Hill in
Washington DC. The public prosecutor said to the audience, "Imagine the
despair and anger of a family who knows nothing of what happened to their loved
one and has literally nowhere to turn. For the authorities to simply claim they
have not killed a single practitioner - they were all supposedly 'suicides or
death by natural causes' is incomprehensible, immoral and the worst of the worst
behaviors. Police guards burn the flesh, the mouth, the genitals with electric
batons, hammering metal spikes under fingernails, whip them with spiked wooden
sticks, beat them with metal clubs, sexually humiliate and rape them... the list
goes on."
According to a March 20, 2003 report published by the World Organization
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong ("WOIPFG"),
"The regime has expended one quarter of China's financial resources to
persecute Falun Gong, which is one of the main reasons why the persecution is
able to last. This funding comes from diverting foreign investments and Chinese
citizens' earnings, as well as the illegal fines forcibly imposed upon Falun
Gong practitioners and their family members and work units. A great deal of
funding has been allocated to public security, national security, the criminal
"610 Office" across the nation, and the foreign affairs department.
The sustained defamation campaign and information blockade have cost a great
deal of the country's financial resources. This has put tremendous pressure on
the livelihoods of people throughout China and brought grave consequences to the
nation's economic development."
This persecution against Falun Gong was started by Jiang Zemin, out of
personal jealousy, and it is completely based on lies. However, this persecution
is again covered up with all kinds of lies. People who dared to learn and speak
the truth were brutally persecuted. Some people in Mainland China were sentenced
to more than 10 years in prison only because they were suspected of accessing
Minghui Net. Overseas Falun Gong practitioners have made tremendous efforts and
sacrificed a lot in order to expose and stop this persecution.
Note: The SinoSat satellite was launched in 1998. It serves dozens of
important clients, including the "CCT broadcast and TV project" under
The State Administration of Radio Film and Television, China Education TV,
China National Offshore Oil Corp., China Meteorological Administration, China
Unicom, and China Netcom.
*The 610 Office is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong,
with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other
political or judicial systems.
Posting date: 8/18/2003 |