(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Lu Xiangyun, over 50 years old, was recently sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp by the Chaoyang Police Department. The illegal sentence was related to the fact that a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was found while perpetrators ransacked her home.
On March 18, 2006, police officers from the Dongba Township Police Station illegally arrested Lu Xiangyun and ransacked her home. Falun Gong books and a copy of the Nine Commentaries were found during the search. Afterwards, Lu Xiangyun was jailed at the Chaoyang Police Department and no one was allowed to visit her.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is afraid of the wide spreading of the Nine Commentaries. Instead of openly responding to it, the party uses its full energy to arrest people who spread the Nine Commentaries. Many Falun Gong practitioners were arrested only because they owned a copy of the Nine Commentaries.
People all over the world know that the residents of Beijing are all under strict control. Outwardly, the excuse of the control is for maintaining stability of society. Internally, it is actually for monitoring and controlling Falun Gong practitioners who are spreading truth-clarifying materials. Before some big events were held which could possibly uplift the image of the party, many Falun Gong practitioners were arrested. As the 2008 Olympics approach, the suppression toward the residents of Beijing is getting stricter. In the suburbs of Beijing, monitoring systems are being continuously installed in the residential areas. The party uses neighborhood administrations, village committees, police agents, security officers, policemen, and special agents from the National Security Group to tightly control Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners are illegally arrested almost every day.
As Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing who have experienced the illegal persecution for the past seven years, we want to call for help from the International Olympic Committee and other related international organizations: We wish you could truly investigate the human rights conditions in China. In order to hold the Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party's guarantee to maintain "stability and security of society" is actually the biggest excuse to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. In the labor camps of the CCP, more than one hundred thousand Falun Gong practitioners have been imprisoned. Organs have been harvested from thousands of living Falun Gong practitioners, and their corpses burned to destroy the evidence. In order to disclose the crimes of the CCP, Falun Gong practitioners have to face illegal arrests every day. Maintaining social stability in order to "welcome the Olympics" has become the newest excuse to further persecute these benevolent people. We think that it is the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee and other related organizations to help investigate and stop the crimes of persecution against Falun Gong. The international community must not ignore the fact that the CCP uses the Olympics as an excuse to further persecute Falun Gong, because the crimes, which trample on human consciousness and morality, are totally incompatible with the spirit of the Olympics.
June 22, 2006
