Dafa Practitioners and Human Rights Groups in the Greater Boston Area Rally at Harvard Square in Support of UN Human Rights Resolution

According to a report from World Daily on April 6, last weekend, about 10 human rights groups in the Greater Boston area and Boston Falun Gong practitioners rallied at Harvard Square to call on the UN Human Rights Commission to support the resolution sponsored by the U.S. government regarding Mainland China's human rights violations, and to condemn former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and his accomplices for their brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

It was reported that the following representatives of various groups attended the rally: Zhangji Zhao, chairman of World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), Du Chen, director of Friends of Hong Kong and Macao in Boston, Pengfei Wei, spokesman for the "Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice," Haiying He, chairman of "Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners," Zhongzhi Xie, Chinese Democratic Changzhen Foundation, Erik Meltzer, spokesman of New England Life and Science Research Association, Zhiqiang Chen, Boston Foreign Language Student, and a representative of Overseas Chinese Students' Press. Wenhe Xu of Care for Human Rights in China and Yixing Wang of Love from Taiwan Foundation, though not being able to attend this rally, expressed their support through a video tape and a letter.

The report said that several speakers, including Zhangji Zhao, Pengfei Wei and Haiying He strongly condemned the human rights atrocities in China, the persecution of Falun Gong launched and implemented by former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and his accomplices. They also presented many real cases to illustrate the brutality of the totalitarian regime. They pointed out that the Mainland government was very good at the game of arrest and release. But while releasing a few prisoners of conscience in a sensitive period, however, it would secretly arrest many more. It also uses commercial and diplomatic means to make deals with other countries.

It was reported that in a video taped message, Wenhe Xu said that there were no borders for human rights, and that the U.S. Government's sponsoring a resolution about China's human rights was an act of justice. He hoped that all nations and political leaders supporting human rights would support this resolution. In his letter to this rally, Yixing Wang said that for human beings, freedom of speech is water and freedom of belief is air. He called on the Chinese regime to allow its citizens to have their fundamental human rights.

Finally, the report said that the organizers of this rally expressed their hope that more people would learn about the truth through this rally, support the UN resolution about China's human rights, and pay closer attention to and help improve the human rights situation in Mainland China.