STAFF REPORTER
Friday, Dec 30, 2005
A Falun Gong practitioner and former classmate of Chinese President Hu Jintao
yesterday accused China of persecuting the organization.
Zhang Mengye, who escaped from China to Thailand last month after being
tortured in a detention camp, is currently visiting Taiwan.
"In this free country [Taiwan], I appeal to my old classmate [Hu Jintao]
to make the right decision for his administration by respecting Chinese people's
right and religious beliefs and to stop destroying the morals of the
people," Zhang said.
Zhang and his wife Luo Muluan applied for refugee status after arriving in
Thailand and have recently been granted political asylum.
Before being arrested and sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp,
Zhang was a former senior lecturer at Guangdong Provincial Electric Power
School.
"My wife and I were arrested unexpectedly in January 2000 while asking
police officers stationed near Tiananmen Square to deliver a letter to the
Chinese Communist Party pleading for the rights of Falun Gong
practitioners," he said.
Zhang said that while in detention he was once handcuffed to a tree for three
consecutive days in an agonizing position in which he could neither squat nor
stand.
Zhang was re-arrested in May 2002 and sent to a brainwashing center in
Guangzhou City, where he said he was tied up and dunked head-first into a dirty
toilet bowl, causing him to swallow the foul water.
He also brought a charge against Tsinghua University, where he and Hu had
studied together, saying that it cooperated with the Chinese government to stamp
out the Falun Gong.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/12/30/2003286599
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