Germany: Practitioners in Munich Expose the Jiang Group's Crimes on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

On the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, practitioners from Munich and nearby areas held a picture exhibition in Karlsplatz Square, a renowned tourist area, to expose the horrific torture carried out by the Jiang group in its persecution of Falun Gong. A banner reading ‘Bring Jiang Zemin，Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to Justice’ was hung up. Many passers-by and visitors stopped to watch. They were all shocked by the brutality of the persecution and many of them signed our petition to ‘Bring Jiang Zemin to justice.’ There were also a lot of tourist tour groups from Mainland China who took pictures, particularly of the banner.

During the past five years, the Jiang regime has used all kinds of methods to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief in ‘Truth, Compassion, Tolerance’. Jiang has wasted a great amount of money, material resources and manpower to reach his goals. Practitioners who have been detained in labour camps, prisons, mental hospitals and detention centres have experienced all sorts of torture methods to force them to drop their belief in ‘Truth, Compassion, Tolerance’, including handcuffing, electric shocking, burning, tying up and beating, inserting bamboo under the fingernails, brutal force-feeding, injecting with chemical medicines and drugs, hard labour...the list goes on.

News of Falun Gong practitioners’ deaths in this persecution comes out almost every day. On the day of writing this article, the Minghui web-site published six death cases, among whom Meng Qingxia and Zhang Jianghua were from Jilin Annong, Wang Jinzhong from Liaoning, Wang Shujun from Hebei, Bi Guohua from Shandong and Liu Xiaodong from Heilongjiang. Zhang Jianhua died on a static bed - a torture tool in Jilin prison; 32-year old Liu Xiaodong died in Beian City prison in Heilongjiang; Wang Jinzhong died on June 14th in Shenyang Tiexi detainment centre; Meng Qingxia was kidnapped by the police and sent to Changchun Heizuizi labour camp, her health was bad due to the abuse she was subjected to, she became dehydrated and was eventually tortured to death; Hebei Wang Shujun was tortured to death on June 20th in Handan City brainwashing class, he was just thirty six years old when he died.

Karlsplatz Square is located in the main shopping area, which is extremely busy. People flooded into the square in an endless stream, amongst whom quite a few visitors were from Mainland China. Some of them did not hesitate to accept the truth-clarifying materials handed out by practitioners, some of them even talked to practitioners to learn more about the situation and some paid sympathy to Falun Gong practitioners. An owner of a Chinese restaurant in Munich also showed his support for practitioners.