AFP: Falun Gong Practitioners Start Hunger Strike in US
(Clearwisdom.net) On March 9, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held a
press conference in front of Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco. They
protested the secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp, a place where Falun Gong
practitioners are murdered so their bodily organs can be harvested and sold for
profit while their bodies are cremated to hide the evidence. AFP reported on March 9 that Falun Gong practitioners in the US announced the
start of a relay-style hunger strike to protest persecution of their peers at
camps in China. "I think people will continue as long as they can," said Sherry
Zhang, one of approximately eight Falun Gong followers who began protest fasts
in San Francisco. "We haven't set a time line yet." Falun Gong practitioners staged a news conference outside the Chinese
Consulate in San Francisco to announce they would take turns going without food
for a day. Among those fasting was Charles Lee, 41, who returned to San Francisco in
January after being released from a three year sentence in a Chinese jail. Lee said, "We must act to stop them as soon as possible."
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