Germany: Campaign to Rescue Practitioners Chen Xiaozhu and Yu Hongli who have been Illegally Arrested in China

Since July 2003, activities have begun all over Germany to expose the evil persecution and collect signatures to rescue two Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally arrested in China. Many German people who have signed the petition also took petition forms home to collect signatures from their families and friends.

The German President, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chairman of the German Parliament and the German Ambassador to China have all received an appeal letter, detailing the arrest of these two practitioners and the urgent appeal for their rescue, from two organisations established in July 2003: “The Global Friends of Chen Xiaozhu” and “The Global Friends of Yu Hongli”.

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Chen Xiaozhu is 31 years old and had studied in Germany for 6 years up until January of this year. He had participated in the 24-hour vigil in front of the Berlin Chinese Embassy for 2 months to urgently appeal for an immediate end to the killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Some practitioners recalled that, “The coldest time among those 24 hours were the early hours of the morning. Those 2 months were extremely cold in 2001; even if you wore an overcoat, it was still very chilly standing in the wind and rain. But Chen Xiaozhu was always there at 3am during the 24-hour vigil, even though he had to be at work before 7am every morning.”

In order to tell people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, Chen Xiaozhu participated in two SOS walks from the bottom to the top of Germany. Both of the SOS walks lasted one month, and the longest one was 560 miles. Chen and another practitioner walked the entire journey in the cold and heavy snow of the Christmas holiday; on the way, they let many people know about the brutal killing and illegal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

At the beginning of January 2003, Chen decided to go back to China for a short stay. In May, he was illegally kidnapped and arrested in the Chengdu district of Beijing because a person reported him to the police and because he repeatedly visited a Falun Dafa websites.

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Yu Hongli is a 32-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner, who had been in Germany for just over one year until January 2003. She continually went to Der Kölner Dom for 9 months to let Chinese tourist groups know the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution. After returning to Chengdu in China, she was illegally kidnapped and detained in Chengdu Pixian prison.

Chinese people and tourist guides who visited Der Kölner Dom knew Yu Hongli, and when they visited other tourist attractions, we often heard them talk about “the lady at Der Kölner Dom.”

Activities to rescue Yu Hongli, together with a picture exhibition detailing the public trial of Jiang Zemin, will be held in different tourist spots in the three major cities where Yu Hongli had continually told people the facts about Falun Gong.

Related telephone numbers:

The Superintendent, Li, Chengdu Pixian Custody: 0086 2886 407826
Telephone exchange at the custody: 2887 925144
The door-keeper’s room at the custody: 2886 407825
The Public Security Bureau of Chengdu: 2886 407212
The Director General of The Public Security Bureau of Chengdu: 2886 626160