(Clearwsidom.net) In advance of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visit to Germany, Germany's Federal Department of Domestic Affairs admitted that German police violated the law during Jiang Zemin's visit in 2002. The following is based on RFA special reporter Tianyi's report from Germany.
On May 2, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will visit Germany. This week, a Berlin Administrative Court Judge, representatives of Germany's Federal Department of Domestic Affairs and representatives of Falun Gong practitioners reached agreement confirming that during Jiang Zemin's visit in April 2002, Germany's Federal Department of Domestic Affairs violated the law in taking restrictive actions against Falun Gong practitioners. A reporter interviewed Ms. Zheng Zhihong, a law specialist from China Zhejiang University, who participated in the lawsuit about this event.
Ms. Zheng Zhihong talked about the progress and discussion of the case this week.
German police admitted that their actions in forcing practitioners out of a hotel violated the law and that "Falun Gong practitioners' protest against the persecution of Falun Gong in China, even expressing their protest to the state guest from China is protected by freedom of speech stipulated in the German Constitution."
The Judge stressed that Falun Gong's protest was peaceful and that as far as he knew Falun Gong had never used force or violence.
Falun Gong practitioners in Germany were pleased at the attitude of the German government and Germany's judicial justice. Hence, the one-year-long case over Germany's Federal Department of Domestic Affairs' violation of human rights ended before the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
Based on an RFA story by special reporter Tianyi.
