Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong Mother and Daughter on Hunger Strike Protesting Illegal Detention
Translated from a Chinese language Radio Free Asia Report - January 31 (New
York) Human Rights in China, headquartered in New York, issued a news release
stating that the detained Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Jun and Li Chiyue
(mother and daughter) have been on a hunger strike for more than eight days.
China's Ministry of Public Security prevented lawyers from meeting with them.
They were also deprived of their legal right to seek the counsel of a lawyer.
It was reported that Zhang Jun and Li Chiyue's relatives asked Human Rights
in China for urgent help, because the mother and daughter were already in
critical condition. Police agents in Beijing are still refusing to accept the
warm clothes Zhang Jun's husband Li Jinxi brought for his wife and daughter. According to sources in China, on the evening of January 20, Zhang Jun and
her daughter Li Chiyue were arrested while they were trying to put up
small ads at Huatang Supermarket in Chaoyang District of Beijing. The
contents of the small ads were Falun Gong practitioners wishing people a happy
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) and condemning Jiang Zemin's
persecution of Falun Gong. The next day, after their arrest, the police agents
from Chaoyang District searched their home without a warrant. On January 30, the
local police issued an arrest warrant for Zhang Jun and Li Chiyue. It was read
to Zhang Jun's husband Li Jinxi and they did another search. Human Rights in China immediately appealed to the Ministry of Public Security
for the release of Zhang Jun and Li Chiyue in order to avoid further deaths of
Falun Gong practitioners in jail.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/1/66344.html
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