Publications, Press Releases

  • EFGIC (European Falun Gong Information Centre): Man Who Exposed Atrocities Against Falun Gong over China’s State-run Television Tortured to Death

    Mr. Chengjun Liu had spent more than two years working to let his fellow countrymen know about the torture and killings of Falun Gong practitioners throughout China - crimes former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin had kept hidden under a veil of misinformation and with full control over the state-run media. After repeated attempts by Liu’s family to secure his medical parole were denied by Chinese authorities, Liu died at 4 a.m. on December 26. Liu’s body was cremated seven hours after his death with neither an autopsy nor the family’s consent.
  • Article from German Website Stimme.de: A Parcel Filled with Hope is On Its Way to China

    'Xiong Wei studied at the Berlin Technical University for six years. During that time she began to practise Falun Gong, an ancient and traditional Chinese cultivation practice. She was arrested on February the 5th 2002, on her return to China after she had completed her studies, for distributing flyers and criticising the Chinese government. She was sent, without legal proceedings, to the infamous Xinan camp near Beijing, a camp which is notorious for torturing its inmates.'
  • Ka-news (German media): Genocide Complaint Filed Against Jiang Zemin With the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office

    'The twenty-four-year old Hubert disclosed that, “we wish to help the seventy million Falun Gong practitioners in China who have no rights.” Because of this, he and thirty others in Germany have decided to file a lawsuit. Wolfgang Kaleck, a lawyer from Berlin, will represent them. The best possible outcome hoped for is that the federal prosecutor’s office will take a serious look at the human rights violations in China.'
  • Article from German newspaper Badische Gazette: Complaint against Jiang Zemin

    The Beijing police arrested André Huber, a twenty-four-year old Langenauer Falun Gong practitioner after demonstrating on Tiananmen Square in February, 2002. He and other like-minded people have therefore filed a complaint against the former President Jiang Zemin. Our editor has talked with André Huber.
  • EFGIC Press Release: Jiang Zemin and “the Real Axis of Evil”

    Topping Amnesty International’s list of human rights “scoundrels,” clearly Jiang’s crimes place him along side Hussein, Milosevic, Pinochet and other “least wanted.” Yet, with so much evidence stacked against him, why does Jiang still present a challenge to international rule of law whose statutes are so clear on these issues?
  • Article from German Newspaper "Chamer Zeitung": An Exercise From the Far East - Harmony of Body and Mind

    As a group, peacefully holding flags to resist violations and persecution is not an easy thing. Truth clarification activities like this one held in the City Hall are urgently needed and necessary. Meanwhile, support is being received. Though under suppression, Falun Dafa still demonstrates its charm to people with various kinds of dances, and music presented to the audience one after another, with only one purpose: to reach harmony with oneself and one’s surroundings.
  • Press Release: Belgian Falun Gong Practitioners Request the European Court of Human Rights to Investigate the Crimes Committed by Jiang Zemin During his Persecution of Falun Gong in China

    Georges-Henri Beauthier, the plaintiffs' lawyer, will clarify the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights and a number of distinguished members of the European Parliament, together with a representative from the WOIPFG (World Organization to Investigate the persecution of Falun Gong) when they present a statement of support in the presence of some of the plaintiffs on Wednesday at 2.30 PM in ‘Club de la Presse’ in Strasbourg.
  • Article from "Skaraborg Lans Tidning" (Swedish Media): Focusing on Human Rights

    According to official statistics from 1998, there were about 100 million people practising Falun Gong. The former Chinese dictator, Jiang Zemin, initiated this suppression and has rendered one twelfth of the Chinese population under direct persecution. The implementation of this national terrorism has even implicated Falun Gong practitioners’ family members.
  • EFGIC: Internal Organs Missing from Body of Falun Gong Practitioner Killed in Police Custody

    The second of two autopsies performed on the body of a Falun Gong practitioner who was beaten to death in police custody revealed that several internal organs had been removed, presumably shortly after her death....illegal human organ trafficking in China has been identified as a serious concern by international human rights groups. In June 2001, Chinese Dr. Wang Guoqi testified before the U.S. Congress about nearly 100 operations he reportedly performed on executed prisoners in China to extract their organs for sale.
  • Washington Times Editorial Reveals How the Jiang Regime Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners by Depriving Them of Employment

    "As soon as foreign corporations in China such as Mary Kay begin to exclude people from employment eligibility simply because the Chinese authorities ask them to do so, they become accomplices of the Chinese government in suppressing human rights and political freedom. To single out Falun Gong practitioners and supporters is particularly disturbing, since the persecution of Falun Gong is generally regarded by international human rights organizations as the most severe human rights violation conducted by the Chinese government in recent years."
  • WTN: Repression of all religions in China [Excerpt]

    "To date many thousands of members have been detained (for varying periods), while at least ten thousand are serving lengthy terms in forced labor camps. An unknown number have been committed to psychiatric detention centers. Beatings and torture of those arrested are routine and have resulted in many deaths. The massive and brutal crack down of the Falun Gong - the intensity of the campaign blitz (in nationwide public demonstrations and mass meetings) with even far-flung regions having to demonstrate their active antagonism... - recall the Maoist campaigns of the 50s and 60s"
  • Article from German Media "Markgraefler Daily News": André Huber Files a Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin

    André Huber is accussing Jiang of genocide and crimes against humanity. This lawsuit is aimed at Jiang Zemin himself as opposed to China. André said: “More than 800 people have lost their lives and more than 200,000 people have been illegally arrested over the past four years or so. Now it’s time to investigate who is responsible.
  • Article from "The Epoch Times": The Persecution Wastes Tremendous National Resources

    Zhao Ming, a graduate of Qinghua University, was arrested in China in early 2000. He was imprisoned in Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing for twenty-two months... Now he is one of forty plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. Recently, a reporter of the Epoch Times interviewed Zhao Ming when he was attending a press conference concerning the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin in Berlin.
  • Reference Material: South China Morning Post: Loosen Control Of Internet, Schroeder Urges Mainland

    "China must free up the internet if it wants to achieve its goal of becoming the world's biggest web market in four years' time, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said yesterday. "China will reach its ambitious aim . . . in four years only if the internet is attractive in the same way for Chinese and foreigners," Mr Schroeder said in a speech at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. He did not directly refer to Beijing's strict controls on access to internet content and the arrests of cyber-dissidents, but said China's goals can only be achieved by ensuring freedom of access to the internet."
  • Reference Material: AFP: Multinational Firms Accused Of Aiding Chinese Internet Censorship

    The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged 14 companies ... to take a stand against any such repression, according to a statement. RSF said some of the firms, which are based in North America, Europe, Japan and South Korea, are selling material directly helping China to spy on and crack down on people using the Internet. Other companies simply close their eyes to the situation, it claims.....Beijing is presently censoring hundreds of websites of Western media outlets, political dissidents and others that are viewed as critical of the government or the ruling Communist Party, RSF said.