Publications, Press Releases
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German Newspaper Reports on the Rescue of a Falun Gong Practitioner from a Chinese Forced Labour Camp
2004-12-25
Organisations such as Amnesty International and the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) have called on Beijing to stop the persecution for years. However, Xiong Wei’s case is apparently only one of many others. She returned to her home country in 2002 and was arrested by police while she was distributing printed materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was taken for “re-education” to a forced labour camp without trial. She talks about beatings, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. “We had to wrap 6,000 disposable chopsticks every day.” -
Media Report on French Legal System's Unprecedented Request for Chinese Government's Cooperation on the Lawsuit against Chinese Senior Officials
2004-12-23
French Lawyer William Bourdon, through the French Justice System, has sent China a request to investigate the role of former Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing and current Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng in the persecution of Falun Gong. The European Chinese media outlet, European Daily carried a report on this progress on the front page of its weekend edition. -
EFGIC: The Youngest Victims
2004-12-22LONDON [EFGIC] – Little Jingyu, barely eight years old, lay silent, terrified, still, on the cold concrete floor of the Jiuxian Village jail. But the scene kept moving through her head. It was her dad she saw, she was sure, but not the strong, smiling father she knew. This time it was so different. Dad was crumpled in pain, writhing. Hours of beatings had left him a shadow of his former self. Police had made Jingyu watch. The pain and confusion proved too much for the young girl, even after she and her mother were released from custody. The trauma was so deep Jingyu soon began spitting up blood and vomiting. Less than one month later she passed away, too broken to live. -
EFGIC: International Falun Gong Plaintiffs Win Torture Lawsuits
2004-12-20LONDON [EFGIC] – We are encouraged by last Wednesday’s U.S. court ruling which found two high-ranking Chinese officials liable for crimes of torture, genocide, and other crimes against humanity. This ruling adds to the momentum of 47 lawsuits filed in 29 countries and six continents against Chinese officials who have actively persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. These lawsuits have become the largest international collaborative legal effort since the Nuremberg Nazi trials. -
London Metropolitan Police Asked to Charge Former Chinese Leader with Crimes Against Humanity
2004-12-19LONDON [FGAUK] - Application has been made to London New Scotland Yard for a criminal charge to be made against Jiang Zemin, formerly the general Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China. He is charged with crimes against humanity. As head of the Chinese Government, Jiang is personally responsible for organizing and directing a systematic campaign of persecution, torture and genocide against Falun Gong practitioners in China. -
Migros Magazine 45 (Switzerland): "A wonderful energy began to circulate throughout my body"
2004-12-19
"After three sessions of one and a half hours I had learned the exercises ... nothing simpler, no need to do your head in! There are only five exercises, four standing and the fifth, if possible, in the meditative lotus position (which everyone does according to his or her capability)...This practice brings you harmony and inner strength and allows the energy to circulate in a marvellous way throughout the body." -
Article from Germany’s Mittelbayerische Newspaper Exposing the Persecution of an Imprisoned Practitioner from Europe
2004-12-13Xiong Wei told us that the Chinese regime felt threatened by Falun Gong. Therefore, they banned this movement in 1999. The Communist regime specially created an agency (“The 610 Office”) that is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. Xiong Wei wistfully told us that, “Adherents of this meditation school are persecuted by the state security agencies, who use psychological terror methods, beatings and torture.” Tens of thousands of adherents were sent by the regime to re-education camps. -
EFGIC: Persecution of Falun Gong Sparks Broadest Legal Efforts since Nuremberg
2004-12-12LONDON [EFGIC]– Lawsuits against persecutors of Falun Gong have become the broadest collaborative efforts since the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Efforts to hold Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members legally accountable for their role in persecuting Falun Gong are gaining momentum. The last month has seen cases filed in Canada, Ireland, Korea, and the Netherlands. Legal efforts inside China are increasing as well. -
Radio Free Asia: A Seminar on the Chinese Communist Regime will be held in Germany
2004-12-11“Falun Gong advocates ‘Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance’ but the Chinese Communist Party promotes vicious struggles. Therefore, they are fundamentally different. Secondly, belief holds people in awe, but the Chinese Communist Party maintains its political power by terror. After it took over power, the Chinese Communist Party has launched a variety of campaigns to continue its ruling position. This persecution did not end in the wake of Jiang Zemin’s step-down..." -
EFGIC: United Nations Reports on Persecution of Falun Gong Compiled in Recently Published Book
2004-12-08
LONDON [EFGIC]– The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group has announced the publication of The 2004 United Nations Reports on China’s Persecution of Falun Gong. In its second edition, the book is a collection of reports issued by the Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Commission on China’s violent, and often deadly, persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Article from The Irish Times: Rights will be Part of China Agenda
2004-12-08[Irish Premier] Mr Ahern said that when the Chinese officials visited Ireland in recent years, he had raised the issue of human rights."We actively called for the release of the Falun Gong prisoners two years ago, which was deeply appreciated by the Chinese community in Ireland," he added. "We succeeded in a number of high profile cases. When Ireland held the EU presidency earlier this year, we gave a commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms." -
Irish Falun Dafa Information Centre: Criminal Complaint Against Chinese Official Huang Ju Presents an Opportunity for the Irish Judicial System
2004-12-07The investigation of these allegations and any subsequent trial of Huang Ju presents the Irish judicial system with an historic opportunity to examine the evidence and investigate if a high ranking Chinese official was aware of, involved in or planned the systematic use of torture in the persecution of one hundred million mainstream Chinese people. -
Article from German Newspaper “Heilbronner Stimme” about Practitioner who Spent Two Years in a Forced Labour Camp
2004-12-05She was taken to a women’s labour camp without trial, where she regularly suffered torture to re-educate her. Hearing about her arrest, her brother turned to the public with the help of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM). They managed to collect more than 40,000 signatures, write support letters and inform the media. They also informed the federal government. Thus, the Chancellor personally wrote a letter to the Chinese President pleading for Xiong Wei’s release. -
Article from German Newspaper Badisches Tagesblatt: Two years In Hell
2004-12-01Xiong Wei’s friends, as well as the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), became active in gaining her freedom as soon as they heard about her arrest. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) presented the former head of state and head of the communist party Jiang Zemin, during his Aril 2002 state visit in Germany, with an appeal letter, requesting the freedom of all imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, including Xiong Wei. -
Article from German Newspaper Chamer Zeitung: “An Ancient Spiritual Path”
2004-11-30
Report from Falun Gong Information Day in the Town Hall of Cham: To introduce Falun Dafa to visitors who had not previously heard much about it, performers presented and explained the basic exercises on stage; its elegance and beauty were represented in the lotus and fan dances.
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