Ireland: A Speech from the Public Hearing of Criminal Jiang Zemin in Dublin City Centre

I went to China in March 2002 to help Trinity College student Zhao Ming return to Ireland and also appeal to the Chinese authorities to end the persecution of Falun Gong.

I witnessed first hand how all aspects of the media are used to defame Falun Dafa. The most disturbing thing I saw was a large gruesome poster defaming Falun Dafa practitioners that was situated in the middle of a public park. It was very graphic and depicted a number of ugly scenes with illustrations. The poster was so explicit and filled with so many lies it really upset me. Former Chairman Jiang Zemin was saturating Chinese society with lies defaming Falun Dafa practitioners so these lies could be used as justification for throwing innocent people in labour camps, prisons, detention centres and mental hospitals.

When I talked to ordinary Chinese people, some were afraid to talk about Falun Gong whilst others openly and brazenly echoed what they had heard on TV or read from a newspaper. When I explained the truth of the practice to these people they were completely shocked. They found it difficult to believe that a westerner was practising Falun Dafa and that it was practised openly and freely in nearly every country in the world besides China. Because ALL of China’s media is state controlled, they had never heard a positive word about Falun Dafa and their ideas were based solely on what they had heard in the state-controlled media.

Before I left China I appealed for an end to the persecution of Falun Dafa and for the release of all detained Falun Dafa practitioners. Although my appeal was perfectly legal, I was arrested, thrown in a police van and driven to the nearest police station. In the police station I was threatened again and again with violent behaviour and vicious taunts. I refused to be treated like a criminal so I was kneed in the stomach and my fingers where forcefully twisted back in order to take my mug shot. In order to find my hotel three policemen drove me around in a police car. While in the car I told the police the truth about Falun Dafa but they were not willing to listen and beat me in the back of the car. Eventually because they could not find my hotel, they took me to an underground car park and beat me there until I told them where my hotel was. Following this I was brought to a police cell that had blood splattered on the wall. I was violently strip-searched and they tore my clothes in the process. I was thrown into the cell and repeatedly questioned for hours about who I knew in China and who I had met on my visit there.

From my personal experience I can tell you there is currently a campaign of genocide being implemented in China to destroy the will and the body of Falun Dafa practitioners. There is no denying that this campaign to eradicate Falun Dafa practitioners is the notion of former chairman of China Jiang Zemin, because he has publicly pushed forward this campaign inside and outside of China. By any moral standard this is wrong and Jiang Zemin should not escape trial for his crimes. Millions are suffering during this persecution campaign and thousands have already died due to torture and maltreatment. I hope the Irish Judicial system will help to uphold the dignity of mankind and put the former Chairman of China Jiang Zemin on trial for genocide.

Thank you.

Ireland Public Hearing