April 26, 2005
Beijing
(AsiaNews/Agencies) - In the largest campaign since in 1999, police have made
massive arrests across the country in an operation against Falun Gong followers,
especially in the provinces of Shandong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia,
this according to Falun Gong sources.
In the meantime, Amnesty International has launched a campaign on behalf of
Ms. Liu Yawen, a Falun Gong [practitioner] who was arrested and disappeared
without trace for distributing Video-CDs.
[...]
Since July 1999, the movement, which had some 100 million practitioners, has
been subjected to a brutal policy of persecution, a policy put forth by then
President Jiang Zemin [...].
Since then anti-Falun Gong propaganda has become merciless with people being
jailed, tortured (38,000 cases according to Falun Gong sources) and killed.
From July 1999 to April 2005, these sources have reported 1,880 documented
deaths, often as a result of physical and psychological torture. The actual
figure is likely higher since this information is considered a "state
secret" and punishable with prison.
In fact, hundreds of thousands of followers are still in prison (in some
cases, entire families) and more than 200,000 have been sent to labor
re-education camps without trial.
Others have been sent to mental hospitals and subjected to
"brainwashing" and unnecessary and dangerous pharmacological treatment
to make them recant. (PB)
Source: http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3147
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