German Ambassador to the United Nations Receives Nearly 1,000 Letters Calling for the Rescue of Xiong Wei and Lin Wenrong

During the United Nations Human Rights Commission, more than one thousand Falun Gong practitioners from over 40 countries gathered in Geneva. They held peaceful appeals in front of the United Nations building to ask all governments to pay attention to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They also requested the Chinese Government to immediately stop the persecution of Falun Gong. The Jiang regime’s repression of Falun Gong intends to crush Falun Gong in China and even in the rest of the world. This systematic and well-planned persecution has violated China’s constitution as well as international laws that the Chinese authorities have signed. This evil persecution is a threat to the international community. Falun Gong practitioners have already issued lawsuits to sue the Jiang regime for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Israeli practitioner, Xiong Zhiyuan, and many German practitioners went to Geneva to urgently appeal to the German government and the governments of other countries to help rescue Falun Gong practitioners Xiong Wei and Lin Wenrong, who are being illegally detained in China. During their stay in Geneva, they collected 863 appeal letters and 183 signatures asking the German Government to rescue the two practitioners. They passed them to the German Ambassador of the United Nations, hoping he could represent their voice to the German government. At the same time, they appealed to the Ambassador to personally request the Chinese government during the United Nations Human Right Commission to immediately release Xiong Wei and Lin Wenrong. In his letter to the Ambassador, Xiong Zhiyuan wrote, “First, I thank the German Government for its efforts to rescue my sister, Xiong Wei, and Falun Gong practitioner, Lin Wenrong. On presenting these signatures and personal appeal letters, I sincerely wish that you, in the names of myself and of all those kind people who wrote these letters, will express our voice to your government. At the same time, I appeal to you to demand that the Chinese government release my sister, Xiong Wei, and Lin Wenrong unconditionally. I hope that through the efforts of the German government, my sister and Lin Wenrong will soon be free. Hearing the news that Falun Gong practitioners had been released from their detention with the aid of the Canadian government and the Irish government makes me become more and more confident."

Xiong Zhiyuan and a German Falun Gong practitioner hand in the appeal letters to the German Ambassador to the United Nations

Xiong Wei, the sister of Israeli practitioner, Xiong Zhiyuan, studied at Berlin Technical University. On 5 January 2001, she was arrested when distributing leaflets revealing the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing. She was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment without a trail. She is now detained in the Xinan female labour camp in Beijing. Lin Wenrong was learning German in Dusseldorf. She was kidnapped when she went back to China to visit her family in January 2003. She was then detained in the Xiajiadian Labour Camp in Shiyan City, Hubei Province and has now been moved to be imprisoned Wuhan City.

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