Prominent Chinese Lawyer Goes Public with Details of Torture
NEWS - Dec.
29, 2005 Falun Dafa
Information Center [
http://www.faluninfo.net/ ]
NEW YORK (FDI)--China's renowned human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has published a
third open letter to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders Hu Jintao and Wen
Jiabao condemning the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. The letter (full
text) discloses details of cases he personally investigated over the last
several weeks amidst mounting pressure from the CCP to stop his work.
Gao's three letters are a
rarity in China, where open criticism of senior leaders, especially concerning
treatment of Falun Gong, is considered a one-way ticket to a forced labor camp
or worse. Gao's public letters, however, landed him on the cover of the New York
Times on December 13th, 2005, (news)
making it difficult to haul Gao off in the middle of the night. Still, Gao's
publicizing the CCP's brutality against Falun Gong brought a swift rebuke from
Beijing officials who revoked his license, closed his law firm, and are now
monitoring his family.
"The Chinese Communist
regime participates in human rights dialogues with other countries, sends
representatives to the U.N.'s annual human rights meetings, and extends gestures
of 'good will' to other nations," says Falun Dafa Information Center spokeswoman
Ms. Gail Rachlin. "But that's just a game to give a cloak of normalcy to their
brutal reign over the Chinese people. The minute anyone gets real with the CCP
about their rampant use of violence, they shut them down completely. Gao got
real with them."
Included in the cases Gao
documents is a mother and son who were tortured to death, just days apart, in
the same detention center: "Every time they were tortured, the mother and son
could hear each other's screams," Gao wrote.
Gao also detailed sexual
torture that he found to be pervasive. It is used on men and women alike in the
CCP's campaign to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their practice and
adopt Communist Party ideology. "[Torturers] tied many knots on a thick rope and
pulled it back and forth in a sawing motion across [Ms. Wang's] vagina," Gao
wrote about one case of a tortured female Falun Gong practitioner. "Her entire
lower body swelled up. The head police then ordered inmates to jab her swollen
vagina with the thorny end of a broken mop stick. This torture caused Ms. Wang's
vagina to bleed profusely."
Another victim told Gao
"Because there was not any good skin remaining on my body [after the torture],
the policemen started to shock my private parts with electric batons and pierced
it. Afterwards they used an iron stick to smash my private parts. I passed
out...After one night's torture, my face was swollen to several times the original
size and my whole body was drenched in blood...I was carried to the Changchun
City police department. There were many small cells, each with a tiger bench
[torture devise] inside. There were female [Falun Gong] practitioners on every
tiger bench. Most of them had fainted, with their lower bodies naked or with
only a cloth covering the body."
Gao spent the majority of
his 10-year career assisting underground Christians, farmers, and other
disadvantaged members of Chinese society to secure human rights promised in
China's constitution but rarely fulfilled by the communist regime.
After gathering several
initial reports about the torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners, Gao
turned his attention to the group, actively investigating cases throughout
northeastern China.
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NEWS - Dec. 29, 2005 Falun Dafa Information Center,
www.faluninfo.net
Background Falun Gong, also known as
Falun Dafa (about), is
a practice of the Buddha School, consisting of meditation and exercises, with
teachings that emphasize living by three principles: truthfulness, compassion,
and tolerance. Originating in China, Falun Gong is now practiced in over
70 countries. With Chinese government estimates of
100 million practicing Falun Gong in China, in July 1999 the Chinese
Communist Party-state launched a nationwide, violent campaign to "eradicate" the
practice. The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 2,791
deaths and over 44,000 cases of torture (reports
/
sources).
Millions have been detained or sent to forced labor camps.
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THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts: Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi
Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Christina Chai 917-386-5068.
Email: contact@faluninfo.net,
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