UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights Send Urgent Appeal to Singapore Government (Photo)


(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group recently released the appeal of UN Special Rapporteur to the Singapore Government regarding the unlawful imprisonment of two Falun Gong practitioners.


Group photo of Singapore Falun Gong practitioners and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women (center)

The following is from the original appeal:

Singapore

"886. On 3 May 2005 the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, sent an urgent appeal concerning Singapore national NCH (F) 41, and Chinese national Ms. CLJ (F) 37, both Falun Gong practitioners. According to information received, NCH (F) and CLJ (F) were arrested and charged in May 2004 for having participated in an illegal assembly in February 2003 and for having distributed flyers and VCDs at the Esplanade Park in Singapore exposing the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. On 27 April 2005, the Court 39 of the Subordinate Courts in Singapore sentenced NCH to S$20,000 and CLJ to S$24,000 on charges including 'assembly without permit' and 'possession and distribution of illegal VCDs'. They both appealed the decision and refused to pay the fine, as a result of which the fines imposed were converted into prison terms: NCH was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment and CLJ to 24 weeks imprisonment. The two women were immediately taken to the Changi Women's Prison and had not, until the moment that this communication was sent, had access to a lawyer or been allowed visitors. NCH, who was not given the time to make arrangements for her six-month old baby girl whom she was reportedly nursing until then, had also been prohibited from seeing her child in prison. At the time this communication was sent, they had both been on hunger strike, in protest of the court decision against them of 27 April 2005 and prison authorities had reportedly threatened to punish them further if they continued their hunger strike."

In this year's annual session of UN Commission on Human Rights, Ms. Huang Chay Hua (NCH) specially went to Geneva and narrated the unfair treatment of Falun Gong in Singapore.

English original: http://falunhr.org/reports/UN2006/FreedomExpression-UN-06.pdf


Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/10/29/141295.html

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