C-SPAN Interviews Falun Gong Spokesperson (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) Dr. Wenyi Wang shouted cries to
"stop the persecution of Falun Gong" on April 20, 2006 on the lawns of
the White House in the presence of President Bush and visiting Chinese president
Hu Jintao. American society has showed great interest in Falun Gong since. At
8:30 a.m. on April 22, 2006, spokesperson for Falun Gong Erping Zhang accepted
an interview by the C-Span TV station. During the 30-minute live TV interview,
Mr. Zhang answered many questions about, "What is Falun Gong,"
"The CCP harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners,"
"Persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have been suffering in
China," and other questions. C-Span broadcast live the interview show to
the audience throughout the US and opened hotlines for the audience. Live broadcast spreads the truth about Falun Gong C-Span is a non-profit corporation established for the public
good in the US. The characteristic of this famous television station is that it
does not edit, nor add asides or comments. It is devoted to providing the
audience with the whole picture of the events and interviewee's opinions without
being filtered by the media. It is an important channel for the American people
to learn about many things. Many Americans in the audience learned about the "CCP
harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners" while watching the
C-Span interview with Mr. Zhang. They also learned about the brutal persecution
suffered by Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside of China due to CCP
persecution in the past seven years. According to Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang from Chicago, a
journalist from a large newspaper in local Chicago finished watching the program
in tears, and then immediately contacted local Falun Gong practitioners to learn
more about the situation. Moreover, many American people urged the American government
to stop the CCP's atrocities via sending emails, making phone calls or sending
fax to the White House. They also showed concern over the situation of Dr. Wang
Wenyi. The story of Wenyi Wang At request of the host, Erping Zhang discussed Wenyi Wang's
shouted appeals [for Falun Gong] at the White House. He said, "Ms. Wenyi
Wang is a medical doctor, and the chief editor of a Chinese Medical Journal
issued in North America. She graduated from Bethune University of Medicine in
Changchun City, Jilin Province, China. She later received a PhD of Neurology
from the University of Chicago. She is a practicing physician at Mount Sinai
Hospital in New York City. Dr. Wenyi Wang is very concerned about the organ harvesting
from prisoners of conscience in China, especially atrocities of harvesting
organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Dr. Wenyi Wang has been doing
investigative research in this aspect in the past five months. Not long ago, two witnesses came to America and revealed that
thousand of people detained only in one hospital in Sujiatun have been killed,
but such atrocities not only occurred in one location. According to a retired
military doctor, there are 36 similar facilities throughout China. The American
media have reported on the CCP's live organ harvesting. The US Congress also
held a hearing on this, so it has no reason that the American government not to
address the issue to the visiting Chinese leader and to the press. She was very disturbed that the Chinese government did not
look into this, nor did the international media. The governments around the
world also did not make any public response regarding the issue. As a reporter,
she openly shouted for people's concern over this atrocity of live organ
harvesting. She wanted to send a message to the world and the governments: when
the large-scale harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners is
taking place in China, we should not ignore and do nothing. Erping Zhang said that her action was only to save more
people's lives. American people admire Wenyi Wang's courage The scenes of Wenyi Wang shouting her appeals in the White House played on
C-Span reminded many American people of Ms. Rosa Parks, who refused to give up
her seat to a white man on a bus, and Dr. Martin Luther King, famous American
civil rights activist. Their acts many years ago breached local laws, but their
sacrifices won rights for more people. Members of the audience called in from Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York
and Washington and other places to express their admiration for Dr. Wenyi Wang's
courageous act and incredible courage Charges are quite ironic When being asked if Wenyi Wang was charged, Erping Zhang said, "Wenyi
Wang received a misdemeanor charge. The charge is, "intimidating, coercing,
threatening, and harassing the Chinese leader." He pointed out that the
charge is quite ironic. Erping Zhang asked how this 47-year-old petite looking woman, and a medical
doctor, the mother of two children, intimidated the CCP leader who commands four
million soldiers in the army and is under the constant protection of bodyguards.
It should be just reverse. The CCP government is intimidating, coercing and
harassing the Chinese people. This is what is going on right now. Erping Zhang said that he was very impressed by an editorial entitled,
"Overreacting to Protest" in the Washington Post. The editorial
says that if Ms. Wang's act happened in Beijing, six-month imprisonment may be
the way Beijing would handle it, but it happened in Washington DC, and the
American government should not do so. It is against the first amendment of the
freedom of speech. And the charge is groundless, her act might have humiliated
the CCP leader, but not "intimidate, coerce and harass him." Erping Zhang said, Ms. Wenyi Wang will have a preliminary hearing on May 3,
it happens to be the United Nations' "World Press Freedom Day." Erping Zhang said many lawyers expressed their support for Wenyi Wang. He
hoped the American government to dismiss the charges against Wenyi Wang. Erping Zhang said that the American government can apologize to the Chinese
government for a diplomatic protocol, but not in such a way to put a journalist
into jail. The CCP deceives the international community, Falun Gong demands an
independent investigation Erping Zhang shows a Chinese website to the audience during
the show. The website says they "completed 2,200 cases of organ transplants
in 2005" in only one hospital since 1999, the year the persecution of Falun
Gong officially began. An audience member from Maryland said on the phone that in the past years,
whenever someone went to China to investigate labor camps and other facilities,
what they saw were all fake. The CCP government has spent a lot of time making
false images, decorating the labor camps to look very beautiful. The prisoners
have their English names branded on their clothes, and little deer were running
peacefully in labor camps. But harvesting organs is a very serious issue, how
can we get the facts out? Erping Zhang said, this is why the Falun Gong practitioners have set up the
Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG).
Recently, the American government sent some diplomats to Sujiatun hospital to
look into the organ harvesting incident. But it took place over two weeks after
the revelation of the news. Accompanied by the hospital authorities, they toured
the hospital and did not find any evidence. Erping Zhang said if the CCP allows people to visit this hospital, why can't
it open up all hospitals, forced labor camps, prisons and organ transplantation
centers? Erping Zhang pointed out that this is a crime against humanity, an issue
affronts all individuals, and all the people living in the free world. It also
affronts our basic value of freedom and human dignity. Erping Zhang called upon
the international organizations and governments around the world to join the
CIPFG, and conduct an independent investigation into all forced labor camps in
China. Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted When being asked besides organ harvesting, are there any other forms of
persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered? Erping Zhang said that
millions of Falun Gong practitioners have suffered the persecution. Women
practitioners were raped by prison guards, and millions of practitioners have
lost their jobs. Erping Zhang said, a friend of his father, a renowned professor of physics in
China, was sentenced to three years of forced labor and brutally beaten for
refusing to renounce Falun Gong. Her daughter, a professor of biology at an
university in America is trying all means to rescue her. This is only one of the
countless cases of the persecution. According to human rights groups'
investigation report, there are over 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners who have
died as a result of the persecution. Several hundred thousand Falun Gong
practitioners have been incarcerated in forced labor camps, prisons and mental
hospitals, going through great tragedy and inhuman persecution. The CCP exports the persecution to America Erping Zhang said the persecution does not only happen in China, but has been
exported to America. Dr. Yuan Li, a graduate from Princeton University in
America, was beaten and robbed in his Atlanta home because he helps the Chinese
people to break through Internet blockade, and helps the Chinese people to
access overseas information. Erping Zhang said, it has been documented that many Falun Gong practitioners
have been subjected to the CCP's threats and coerce in the US. He personally
received two death threats from someone who left messages on his cell phone. Erping Zhang said we hope the American government to speak out to the CCP
leader: not to come to America to intimidate and coerce the freedom of American
people. American people concern about the Falun Gong issues Erping Zhang said when answering the question during the show, since the
introduction of Falun Gong in 1992, the Chinese government endorsed Falun Gong
until 1999, when the CCP found that there were so many people practicing Falun
Gong, about 100 million, that they outnumbered CCP membership, so the CCP was
scared and decided to crack down on Falun Gong. Erping Zhang said Falun Gong is only a cultivation group, but not a political
group. Everyone practices on their own free will. What we are trying to do is
rescuing Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China. An audience member from New York asked how to learn Falun Gong. The C-Span
played the scene of the website of the Falun Dafa Information Center on the
screen. Online view English link: Real Format Method to download: click left key on the mouse, select
"Save target as..." from the menu popped up.
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