Washington, DC: Practitioners Call for End to the Persecution of Falun Gong before the Visit of Chinese Leader Hu Jintao (Photos)

By a practitioner in Washington, DC

(Clearwisdom.net) Prior to the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to the United States, Falun Gong practitioners in Washington, DC held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy on September 1, to call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. They held banners worded, "Bring to Justice Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang," "Bring to Justice the Ruthless Police and Others Who Persecute Falun Gong," and "Hu Jintao: The Time Given to You by Heaven's and the People's Mandate is Limited"

The press conference site

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) persecution of Falun Gong has lasted for six years. More than 2,800 practitioners are verified to have died from the persecution. The actual death toll is likely to be much larger. Hu Jintao took power two years ago. During these two years, the persecution of Falun Gong has not stopped but rather, has continued and is ongoing, although the means are more covert.

Dr. Liu, Associate Professor at American University said, "Much of the two-year-long persecution of Falun Gong was conducted by Jiang's faction, but Hu Jintao has his responsibility as well. We know that in the CCP environment, he may be participating involuntarily and that he objected the motion of persecution when Jiang Zemin first initiated it. We think he is being given more opportunities [to end the persecution], but it cannot last forever because heaven's principle, 'Good is rewarded with good and evil meets with retribution' is an eternal truth and anyone committing wrongdoing will be punished by the heavenly principle."

Appeal to Hu Jintao: "Hu Jintao: The Time Given to You by Heaven's and the People's Mandate Is Limited" and "Stop persecution of Falun Gong"

"The persecution of Falun Gong is becoming more and more unpopular," said Chen Jun, a computer engineer in Virginia. "For the CCP officials at each level, the six-year persecution has made many officials tired of this kind of meaningless struggle. Many of them have contact with Falun Gong practitioners and know the truth, making them sympathetic to Falun Gong and to object to the persecution. The three former CCP officials, Chen Yonglin, Hao Fengjun and Han Guangsheng, who recently renounced the CCP, are good examples. Mr. Chen was a former CCP diplomat in the Chinese Consulate in Sydney in charge of surveillance of practitioners in Australia. Mr. Hao was a former 610 Office policeman. Mr. Han was the former Director of the Shenyang Judicial Bureau of Liaoning Province. They were all former CCP officials involved in the persecution of Falun Gong."

Mr. Chen further stated, "The persecution will end in the near future. Falun Gong practitioners do not beg or depend on anyone, but before the persecution ends, it is an opportunity for CCP officials and leaders. The best choice for them would be to end all aspects of the persecution immediately and to spread the truth of Falun Gong worldwide, bring the chief perpetrators of the persecution - Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang - to justice, bring to justice the ruthless police officers and others who persecute Falun Gong, and compensate all practitioners who have been persecuted."

Mr. Jared Pearman gave an address urging President Bush to protect America's values and not to slacken on our mission of safeguarding human rights, for any temporary economic returns.

Children appeal to rescue orphans of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners

Keith Ware, representative of the Global Coalition to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioners, said that in China many practitioners are tortured to death or imprisoned in labor camps. Their children thus become orphans. He called upon President Bush to urge the CCP regime to allow these orphans to be rescued out of China and have them grow up in a free country like the U.S.A. Mr. Ware said that ending the persecution of Falun Gong is an opportunity for Hu Jintao to redeem himself and to leave a good name in history.

Among the officials accompanying Hu to visit the U.S.A. is Bo Xilai who has been sued in many countries for his crimes in the persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners in the U.S. have requested the State Department to deny Bo entry. Mr. Jason Dzubow, a human rights lawyer in Washington, DC said that the request was based on a law passed seven years ago, which stipulates that foreign officials involved in religious persecution cannot enter the U.S.A. Bo Xilai committed countless crimes when he was Mayor of Dalian, Secretary of the Dalian City Party Committee and Governor of Liaoning Province. Lawyer Dzubow said that he was helping Falun Gong practitioners because he is Jewish and his relatives were persecuted during World War II. He said that people learned from this tragedy in which so many innocent people died under the hidden persecution. Mr. Dzubow said that Falun Gong practitioners had done well in exposing the CCP's persecution, and he felt honored to contribute his efforts.

Anti-torture exhibition in front of the Chinese Embassy

Banner calling for the rescue of Falun Gong practitioners

Banner to bar Bo Xilai from entry into the U.S.

American citizen Charles Li was unlawfully arrested by Chinese police at Guangzhou Airport and sentenced to three years in prison when he returned China to visit his parents on January 22, 2003. He has spent two years and eight months in prison, where he has been beaten, subjected to brainwashing attempts and forced to perform slave labor. He is deprived of reading Falun Gong books. The organization, Friends of Falun Gong, wrote to President Bush and asked him to urge Hu Jintao to release Charles Li. Ms. Laura Hatton, a representative of Friends of Falun Gong, read a letter to Hu Jintao from Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo, fiancée of Charles Li.

Jared Pearman gives a speech

Lawyer Jason Dzubow gives a speech

Ms. Laura Hatton reads a letter on behalf of Charles Li

At the end of the press conference, Dr. Liu hoped that Hu Jintao would cherish the very precious opportunity to break away from the control of the CCP and make a good choice for the future.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/3/109705.html

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