Iceland's TV Channel 1 Reports on Lawsuit against Luo Gan
September 8th 2003
(Clearwisdom.net, September 15, 2003) The following are excerpts from a news
bulletin on Iceland's Channel 1.
Lou Gan, one of the most powerful people in China, has had a charge filed
against him with the State Attorney today, demanding that he be placed into
custody for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
Among the silent protestors from the Icelandic chapter of Amnesty
International, the yellow colors of Falun Gong could be seen. They protested
silently today at noon while Luo Gan had dinner with Bjorn Bjarnason, the
Minister for Justice, at the National House of Culture.
Amnesty International representative: "We hope that he will at least see
that the Icelandic government and the Icelandic public have an interest in this
issue and the man himself, as well as the human rights situation in China. This
is our main purpose."
You can say that Lou Gan has played a trick on the protestors at the Culture
House, because after lunch he left from a small back door. And you can say that
the suspicion of the Chinese security guards was well exposed since they
attempted to stop a State TV cameraman from taking pictures. The Icelandic
police ensured that [the Chinese officials] did not succeed. When Lou Gan walked
out, a loud shout could be heard, not from a protestor, but from Bjorvin
Gudmundsson, a journalist from "Morgunbladid": "Are you
imprisoning Falun Gong members?" He did not receive a reply, but one of the
security guards ran towards the journalist.
Minister for Justice Bjorn Bjarnason: "We have reviewed human rights
issues, agreements that we as Icelanders have made according to International
contracts, and also our Constitutional laws. And I have emphasized my point of
view that I consider human rights as absolute laws that you have to consider no
matter what kind of ruling system you have. I put this opinion forward, as it is
my fundamental standpoint that human rights should not be subject to the form of
ruling system in a country, but that you should respect the rights of that
person whatever the situation."
The clients of Supreme Court lawyer Ragnar Adalsteinsson think that the
justice systems of Iceland and China are certainly very different. At the state
attorney's office, Ragnar put forward a lawsuit against Lou Gan. This is an
unprecedented move, to do this to a high ranking foreign official whilst he
visits Iceland. In the lawsuit, it says that Luo Gan is one of three officials
in charge of the "610 Office", an organization that is responsible for
the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, by murder, torture, sexual abuse
and other cruel methods. In that respect, Lou Gan has broken international
agreements that the Icelandic people abide to.
[Falun Gong practitioner] Li Shao said, "He is really one of the most
evil people on Earth at this moment. He has sent over one hundred thousand
innocent Chinese people, Falun Gong practitioners, to labor camps without trial.
One of them is my wife's sister, who was thirty years old at the time when she
was detained in a labor camp for two years without trial. She suffered torture
and was left handcuffed hanging from a door where her feet could hardly touch
the floor. Other people in that same labor camp have been tortured to
death."
Journalist to Ragnar: "Are you saying that his stay here will be
prolonged if the decision [to proceed further with the lawsuit] is made?"
Ragnar: "I think we must demand him to be placed into custody to prevent
him from leaving the country and we should get a court ruling in this respect,
because of his short visit, while the investigation is going on."
The state prosecutor will probably make a decision on this tomorrow.
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