Nov. 24, 2005
FALUN GONG NEWS BULLETIN
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- THE HERALD: TORTURE -- MY YEARS OF HELL IN A CHINESE LABOR CAMP
- AFP: PRESIDENT BUSH URGED TO RAISE FALUN GONG WITH CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER
- SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: FALUN GONG WINS LEGAL VICTORY IN HONG KONG "BLACKLIST" CASE
- EPOCH TIMES: LAWSUITS FOR CRIMES OF TORTURE FOLLOW TOURING CHINESE
OFFICIAL
MY YEARS OF HELL IN A CHINESE LABOR CAMP
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND (The Herald)-The most disturbing memory Li Heping has of
Zhejiang Shiliping forced labour camp in China is of being injected with
psychotropic drugs. "My pulse raced. I felt something alien wriggling in my
blood. Every face I saw was twisted like the face of a devil. Outside a cat
miaoed. I suddenly thought it was a huge tiger coming to tear me to pieces. My
saliva and urine reeked with a disgusting smell of chemicals," he says ...
With the nation's president, Hu Jintao, on an official visit to Britain this
week, Li wants the world to know about the beatings, the summary executions and
the forced labour that underpins the world's fastest growing economy. "Just
as arbeit macht frei (work makes you free) was used as the slogan in Nazi
Germany, the equivalent in China is laodong gaizao, or labour transforms,"
Li says ... Since the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it is
thought that 47 million people have been sent to China's laogai. Human Rights
Watch Asia says that there are about 1,000 forced labour camps and the US State
Department estimates six to eight million people are being detained, including
the leaders of the 1989 democracy protest in Tiananmen Square. The laogai are
designed, according to critics, to brainwash anyone perceived as a threat to the
C.C.P's totalitarianism and to create the world's largest and most profitable
workforce to drive an economy that has been growing nearly 10% a year for the
past three decades and flooding western markets with cheap goods. "We would
be made to work all day to produce toys, dolls, handicrafts, coats, sweaters and
lighters. The head of the camp was one of China's most famous businessmen and
our products were packaged to be sent to Australia", Li says. As a
practitioner of Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement based on Buddhist
principles, Li was arrested and sent to Shiliping camp in August, 2001.
Full Story: http://www.theherald.co.uk/
PRESIDENT BUSH URGED TO RAISE FALUN GONG WITH CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER
WASHINGTON DC (AFP)-US President George W. Bush was urged to raise Beijing's
crackdown of the Falun Gong spiritual group during his talks this week with
Chinese leaders. "President Bush must bring up the Falun Gong in his public
meetings with President Hu Jintao and China's leaders, and call for, in
unambiguous terms, an end to the suppression," the group's spokesman Erping
Zhang said ... The US State Department last week expressed regret over the
"suffering" of Falun Gong followers in China while releasing its
annual report on international religious freedom ... John Hanford, the US envoy
for international religious freedom, said "while the Falun Gong are not
officially a religion, more a spiritual movement, the suffering that they have
endured is unspeakable. There have been so many who have been arrested-thousands
and thousands, many who have died in police custody and the problem just doesn't
seem to abate. And so this is something we all are deeply concerned about."
Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051114/wl_asia_afp/uschinareligionrights_051114193607
FALUN GONG WINS LEGAL VICTORY IN HONG KONG "BLACKLIST" CASE
HONG KONG (South China Morning Post)-Four Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners who
were refused entry to Hong Kong to attend a religious conference two years ago
have won a legal victory in their bid to discover why they were put on the
Immigration Department's "watch list". Justice Michael Hartmann of the
Court of First Instance yesterday ordered the Director of Immigration to reveal
whether the department possessed any material sought by the four practitioners
... that would shed light on why they were placed on the watch list. However,
even if the department acknowledges the existence of such documents, it could
still avoid disclosing them by applying for public interest immunity. The four
were stopped at Chek Lap Kok airport in February 2003 after arriving from Taiwan
to attend the Hong Kong Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference, organised by
the Hong Kong Association of Falun Dafa. They were among 83 overseas Falun Gong
practitioners refused entry to Hong Kong at that time-including 80 from Taiwan.
Full Story: http://www.scmp.com/
LAWSUITS FOR CRIMES OF TORTURE FOLLOW TOURING CHINESE OFFICIAL
LONDON (Epoch Times)-China's Minister of Commerce, Bo Xilai, has been the
subject of legal action around the globe as Falun Gong practitioners seek
redress for his involvement in overseeing the murder and torture of adherents in
Liaoning Province. The application for an arrest warrant was filed at Bow Street
Magistrates Court by an elderly Chinese lady, now living in the UK, who was
tortured in Liaoning for practising Falun Gong. The plaintiff, who for issues of
personal safety will remain anonymous, said that almost every female Falun Gong
practitioner suffered severe sexual abuse in the Camp. She recalls once being
stripped down and having police insert an electric [shock] baton into her
vagina. She said that she was often forced to squat for prolonged periods, and
that "if you couldn't squat any longer and fell down, you would be beaten,
kicked, and your hair would be pulled to drag you up".
Full Story: http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-11-15/34618.html
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