Mr Fava-Minor owns and runs a successful business in China which he founded six years ago with great courage and foresight. He is a great enthusiast of Chinese culture, has a wife of Chinese origin and employs 35 people in Shanghai. He has been awarded the honour of Model Foreign Investor by the local authority.
Mr Fava-Minor is a practitioner of Falun Gong, which is a peaceful movement without any political agenda but was banned by the totalitarian regime in China who does not tolerate independent groups. The persecution brought tragedy to thousands of innocent people in China who take Truth, Compassion, Tolerance as their spiritual goal. In the past two years
302 practitioners are known to have died
500 illegally held in prisons
1000 illegally confined in mental hospitals
20 000 illegally detained in labour camps without trial
100 000 illegally arrested or detained
A year ago, a 28 year old mother was tortured to death in China together with her 8 month old son for practising Falun Gong. Pregnant practitioners have been forced to abort their babies so that they could be kept in labour camps - Chinas persecution is no less than state terrorism.
Horrified by the wicked atrocities, Mr Fava-Minor joined others in absolutely peaceful & legal public events in Italy for the freedom of practitioners in China. One of these was a rally in front of the Italian Parliament on 25 September 2001, which was addressed by the Vice-Chairman of the Parliament. He didnt realise that his completely legal activities in Italy and the fact that he merely exercised his basic human rights of expression and belief on his home soil of Italy would result in the loss of his company in China.
Mr Fava-Minors plight shows that Chinas regime of terror is much closer to the people in Europe than we might have thought before; that an European citizen may lose his property even livelihood in China for exercising his freedom of expression and belief; and that an European may have to abandon his belief and conscience in order to be allowed to run his business in China.
Such wickedness and blatant abuse of human rights must end! We appeal to the leaders and public in Europe to press China to respect the most basic human rights of the European citizens, allow them access to their companies and properties in China, and compensate for the losses Mr Fava-Minor suffered as a result of the deportation!
24 October 2001
European Falun Dafa Information Centre
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