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Spanish Newspaper "Europa Press" Reports on an Anti-torture Exhibition in Madrid (Clearwisdom.net) The following is a report published in the Europa Press on
January the 8th 2005: On the morning of January the 8th, Spanish Falun Gong
practitioners at Puerto del Sol in the center of Madrid acted out the torture
methods which have been commonly employed by the Chinese Jiang group to
persecute Falun Gong practitioners in prisons and forced labor camps since it
started to implement its policy of genocide against Falun Gong in 1999. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient Chinese
cultivation and meditation practice that helps people to improve their health
and upgrade their moral standard and is similar to Taiji and yoga. After it was
made public in China in 1992, it quickly became very popular among the Chinese
people. By 1999, there were about one hundred million people practicing Falun
Gong. Before 1999, due to the tremendous contribution Falun Gong
had made to improving people's mental and physical well-being, Falun Gong was
supported and awarded accolades by the Chinese Government. In July 1999,
insisting on his own prejudiced view regardless of others' opinions, the former
Chinese president Jiang Zemin illegally banned Falun Gong. This act itself was
against the Chinese constitution which protects its citizens' freedom of belief.
Since then, an unprecedented bloody and brutal crackdown on Falun Gong
practitioners has been on-going. The Spanish Falun Gong Association pointed out, "After
five years of continuous persecution, over one million people have been
illegally detained or jailed in prisons and forced labor camps. Elderly women
and children are among those who have been persecuted. During the incarceration,
they have suffered cruel persecution and many of them were even tortured to
death." A Falun Gong spokesperson told reporters, "This is one
of the most serious genocides in history. It is believed that over ten thousand
people have been killed in this inhumane persecution." The most lamentable thing is that the western world has
little knowledge of this persecution. The reason is that the Chinese Government
has stringently censored and blocked the news reported by its state-controlled
mass media. Currently, human rights lawyers in twenty-five countries,
including Spain, have initiated a lawsuit against this persecution through legal
means. It is confirmed that international human rights organizations, such as
the European Parliament, the U.N. Human Rights Commission and Amnesty
International, have endeavored to bring an end to this persecution. The anti-torture exhibition at Puerto del Sol in Madrid
commenced at 11:30 a.m. Falun Gong practitioners practice the exercises together
in Diro Park every Sunday and teach the exercises free of charge. Posting date: 1/20/2005
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