Lawyers in China Cannot Defend Falun Gong Practitioners
The persecution against Falun Gong not only includes physical torture, but also includes manipulating the law so that lawyers cannot defend Falun Gong practitioners.
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The persecution against Falun Gong not only includes physical torture, but also includes manipulating the law so that lawyers cannot defend Falun Gong practitioners.
We hereby request that you raise the issue of human dignity and human rights in China with your colleagues in Beijing to stop the persecution of those whose fundamental rights are being denied.
The deaths of Xu and Shen come close on the heels of the U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights Country Reports, released March 6, and confirm in chilling detail allegations of abuse at the hands of China’s communist authorities.
The U.S. Department of State released 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on March 6, 2007.
On February 12, 2007, the Pudong New District Court of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai illegally sentenced Hong Kong practitioner Ms. Zeng Aihua, 58, to a 3-year prison term.
If the CCP insists on saying that people’s anti-persecution efforts and their efforts to dissolve the CCP and its Party Culture are “getting political,” then isn’t it true that the more people engage in such “getting political” activities the better?
During the past few days, we have seen countless New Year’s greetings to our Teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, from all over the world. Seeing the beautiful cards and reading the touching words, all sorts of feelings well up in my mind and I’m left speechless.
Most Chinese people now know, more or less, that the CCP is bad. Yet, when facing the illegal suppression, persecution, torture, and even killing by the brutal CCP regime, how should people treat and understand it? What should they do? This is a question of the human conscience that all people need to ask themselves.
Ms Zhang and her assisting legal team believe that the case has reached a critical stage due to pressure and interference from the Chinese communist regime which effectively delayed the service of legal documents and obstructed normal proceedings.
On February 8th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cao Dong was sentenced to five years in prison by the Gansu Provincial Court. His so-called “crimes” were “illegally connecting with a foreign anti-China force,” and “illegally accepting interviews.”