Canada: Zhang Jiyan Exposes the Persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Embassy in Canada

On April 1st, 2007, Zhang Jiyan, the wife of a Chinese diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in Canada, told reporters in Ottawa that she has evidence that Huang Huikang, the Minister Counsellor and Consul General, is one of the people in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in Canada. Ms. Zhang pointed out that what Huang Huikang has lied to Western reporters. She also explained the reasons that she left the Chinese Embassy and how she was watched by the Chinese Embassy officials.

Ms. Zhang announced that she quits the CCP during a rally at Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Ms. Zhang is the wife of a diplomat at the Chinese Embassy. On March 30th, she announced her withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party at a rally in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Ms. Zhang has evidence that Huang Huikang persecutes Falun Gong

Ms. Zhang Jiyan exposed that there is a "Political Research Office" consisting of ten staff members at the Chinese Embassy. The task of this office is to deal with democratic movement activists, Falun Gong, Free Tibet organisations and Taiwan independent movement activists. The office focuses on persecuting Falun Gong. Huang Huikang, the Minister Counsellor and Consul General, persecutes Falun Gong on one hand, and denies the persecution to the Canadian media on the other hand.

Ms. Zhang said: "I have evidence that Huang Huikang is directly in charge of and involved in the persecution of Falun Gong." Ms. Zhang said that what Huang Huikang told the Western reporters are lies.

According to a report by Globe and Mail on March 31st, Huang Huikang denied that there is such an office in the Chinese Embassy. Ms. Zhang Jiyan told the reporters that the head of this office was Sun Lushan, then Chen Wangxia, and now is Zhang Weidong. Huang Huikang is a high ranking official in the Chinese Embassy, and in charge of this office. Huang issues orders to incite overseas Chinese to persecute Falun Gong in Canada.

"I quit the CCP, but I didn't renounce my Chinese citizenship."

The Canadian press incorrectly reported that Ms. Zhang Jiyan renounced her Chinese citizenship and some Chinese media and websites cited those reports. Ms. Zhang pointed out that some Western and Chinese media incorrectly equate the CCP with China.

She said: "I announced my quitting the Chinese Communist Party at the rally on March 31st, but I didn't give up my Chinese citizenship. I love my country, and I will go back to China as soon as the persecution of Falun Gong ends."

Ms. Zhang had attended Master Li Hongzhi's lecture in the Chinese Embassy in France

In 1995, Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, was invited by the Chinese Embassy in France to give a lecture. Ms. Zhang Jiyan and her husband were at the Chinese Embassy in France then. Almost all the employees and their family members attended the lecture. Ms. Zhang started cultivating Falun Gong then. Ms. Zhang told reporters that the lecture was videotaped.

In 1998, Ms. Zhang and her husband went back to China. After the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zhang went to appeal for Falun Gong with other practitioners. She was arrested. She refused to cooperate with the policemen and refused to tell her name. Later, she was released.

In April 2003, Ms. Zhang came to Canada with her husband as the family member of a Chinese diplomat. On July 1st, 2003, she saw Falun Gong practitioners in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and contacted them.

Diane Shi, a Falun Gong practitioner from Ottawa, said that she got to know Ms. Zhang Jiyan in July 2003, and kept in touch with her. Ms. Shi said that Ms. Zhang had bought Falun Gong books from other Falun Gong practitioners and asked for Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials.

Ms. Zhang said: "I've never regretted that I practise Falun Gong. I know what I have been doing these past few years. I am a Falun Gong practitioner. I don't regret leaving the Chinese Embassy."

"We have to turn on the exhaust fan when we talk."

Ms. Zhang sometimes gave the Epoch Times newspaper to the officials in the Chinese Embassy, and clarified the truth of Falun Gong to them. She said: "There are many good people in the embassy. They listen to me, but they don't dare to make comments. They don't have that freedom."

Ms. Zhang said: "You never know where they install listening devices. When I talked to my husband at home, we had to turn on the exhaust fan and turn up the volume on the TV. This kind of life is very depressing."

Ms. Zhang told the reporters that there are many video cameras around their house, and she saw at least six.

The Chinese Embassy spied on Ms. Zhang and her husband.

After Ms. Zhang clarified the truth to people surrounding her, the Chinese Embassy started paying attention to her and watching her. The Chinese Embassy stepped up their surveillance on them before the expiration data of her husband's visa - April 2007.

Ms. Zhang said: "After the summer of 2006, they watched me very closely. Wherever I went, there was somebody spying on me. They wanted to know where I went and what I put into my car."

One weekend in February 2007, she and her husband went shopping. They found that two officials from the "political research office" were spying on them in the parking lot. Ms. Zhang and her husband went to a different super market, and they saw another official from the same office there.

"They inspected our phone bills and tried to figure out who I was in touch with. They opened my mail and sometimes my mail 'got lost'. They even inspected my bank statement."

"Why do I leave the embassy?"

The Chinese Embassy tried to take away Ms. Zhang's passport. She felt the pressure and finally left the embassy on March 5th.

"If I go back to China, I will be arrested and sent to a brainwashing facility. I won't be able to live with my husband anyway." Ms. Zhang said: "The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong involves practitioners' family members. I didn't feel safe at the embassy. I left the embassy so that my husband will not be involved."

Ms. Zhang said: "I need to consider my own safety too, since the CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners."

"Huang Huikang lied, saying that I wanted to stay in Canada so I left the embassy." Ms. Zhang said "Why would I wait until now, if I just wanted to stay in a foreign country? I could have stayed in France several years ago."

Ms. Zhang told the reporters that she started dating her husband in 1984 and got married in 1986 in Beijing. They have a very happy family. It was very difficult for her to make this decision and be separated from her husband. It is due to the persecution. Ms. Zhang said that she will go back to China immediately when the persecution stops.

Calling upon the Chinese diplomats to learn the truth and quit the party

Ms. Zhang hopes that all the Chinese diplomats will take advantage of living overseas to learn the truth about Falun Gong and recognise the evil nature of the CCP. She called upon them to quit the CCP and its affiliated organisations for a wonderful future.