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The year 2005 has passed and the 2006 Chinese New Year is just around the corner. With the coming of each new year, I eagerly think of my father, who has been illegally imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong. I always hope he will be reunited with his family and celebrate Chinese New Year with us.
On Nov. 25, Falun Gong practitioners Liu Jizhi and Han Yuzhi were raped while being held at their local police station. Such rapes are not aberrations. Chinese policemen are encouraged to use “all means” to force adherents of Falun Gong to give up this practice, and rape has repeatedly been employed as a means of terror.
I committed all these crimes. I already know that I was in the wrong. I speak about them now, because I will no longer commit such crimes. I now know the truth about the “Falun Gong practitioners,” whom the police told us to capture and bring to them. Falun Dafa practitioners are all good people. They don’t hit back or curse back when they are hit and cursed at.
An Open Letter to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao from Lawyer Gao Zhisheng
Before I could sit down and send my greetings to you, my two fellow compatriots, out of solicitude for another group of our common fellow compatriots, Falun Gong believers, I went to several places outside Beijing to investigate the real situation about Falun Gong believers suffering a new wave of systematic, large-scale, organized illegal persecution. During my days outside Beijing, I was hiding, laying low like a thief. That’s why many in the outside world spread the hearsay that I was “missing.”
This new round of continued, systematic, large-scale, and organized brutal persecution targeting our fellow Chinese citizens who believe in Falun Gong is an ongoing reality, not only revealed in recent letters addressed to us from different regions, but also a reality we personally witnessed during our trip outside Beijing. As a Chinese citizen, and as a lawyer, I am willing to bear any legal responsibility for witnessing and publicizing these facts.
In the beginning of winter in 2001, two-year-old Tianhao visited his grandmother’s home, and noticed that the house was empty and covered with a layer of dust. He immediately thought of his mother, grandmother, aunt and uncle. With tears in his eyes, little Tianhao said to his father, “There used to be lots of people in this house, but now there are only you and me left.”
According to statistics on the Minghui website (the Chinese version of Clearwisdom), in August 2005, the torture deaths of 61 Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China have been verified through civil channels.
The Zhaoyuan City Public Security Bureau in Shandong Province Declares, “We Must Also Arrest Children”.
The Women’s Rights and Protection Act in the People’s Republic of China’s Constitution states clearly that “Women need special protection during menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation.” Nonetheless, reports of sexual assault, such as rape and forced abortion, frequently surface from Chinese labor camps.
One year ago, a woman in China’s Henan Province was sentenced to five years in prison because she refused to give up her faith in Falun Gong, and refused to curse the spiritual practice as ordered by the Chinese government. However, only recently was her story published on overseas websites in order to direct international attention to China’s human rights issues.
On June 16, 2005, after enduring brutal persecution, Ms. Gao Rongrong, 37, died in the emergency room of China Medical University Hospital, located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The persecutors are pressuring her family to cremate her body quickly, in order to destroy all evidence of their crimes.
Candlelight vigil will be held in front of Chinese embassies and consulates Australian wide in memory of Ms Gao and to call for the stop of the brutal persecution towards Falun Gong practitioners from the Chinese communist regime.
