After more than 3 years of torture and abuse, 65 year-old Mr. Quanfu Zhang was beaten to death in a Chinese forced-labor camp. His son, Qifa Zhang, died 16 days later from sustained torture in the same labor camp.
Mark Palmer is the former US ambassador to Hungary and a vice-chair of Freedom House, a prominent human rights organization. He is also a founding member of Friends of Falun Gong USA, a U.S.-based non-profit human rights group.
The authorities demanded that Dong’s parents rescind their legal appeal and informed them they would be given over ten thousand Yuan in exchange for dropping the case. However Dong’s parents rejected this offer.
When we questioned the police why they lied as Party members, they did not know what to say. Later one policeman said, “Isn’t the Party always like this?”
On the morning of the May 15 2003, RFI broadcast the following report in Mandarin to Chinese people in Paris and Mainland China.
A large and tall police then said: “How come CCTV lied to us?” Since then I have not heard that large policeman say anything disrespectful about Falun Dafa.
A group of Indian VIPs met to discuss the best way to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They established a network to promote the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners and this network now includes MPs, academics, leaders of religous groups and leaders of NGOs.
Not long after the second operation I came across two Chinese-Australians who were handing out pamphlets with information about the qigong practice meditation and exercise practice known as Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong).
New findings demonstrate that the so-called “self-immolation incident” on Tiananmen Square — the No. 1 weapon used to turn public opinion against Falun Gong both inside and outside of China.
This Dafa practitioner and her husband have now been forced to become homeless
and move from place to place to avoid being persecuted.
Other “Cultural Revolution-like” campaigns have included the 1999 effort to
eradicate the banned spiritual group the Falungong.
Increased communication among the 27 countries dealing with SARS has been a
key factor in controlling the disease’s spread, David Heymann, director for
communicable diseases at WHO, “China, so far,” he said, “has not been very helpful.”