South Korea: Media Cover the "Return My Wife" Rescue Activities

An association was set up in Korea to rescue Falun Gong practitioner Gao Chengnu who is illegally imprisoned in China. Ms. Gao is the wife of a Korean citizen. The association held a press conference on the 24th of August, 2004 calling on all circles to help and participate in the rescue. At the same time, a website for the rescue has been set up and signatures are being collected in South Korea.

Korean CBN and CBC TV stations, along with several newspapers reported details about Gao Chengnu's imprisonment and the related rescue effort. The media also interviewed Ms. Gao's husband and members of the rescue association. The Korean CBN and CBC TV stations again played the facts of the staged Tiananmen Self-immolation incident and told viewers that former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and his regime framed and persecuted Falun Gong using such means.

Korean citizen Guo Binggao and Korean Chinese Ms. Gao wed on the 18th of May, 2003. During the processing of Ms. Gao's immigration documents, the Chinese authorities refused to issue her a passport because she practiced Falun Gong. She was illegally arrested on the 7th of May, 2004 and imprisoned in the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province. It was learnt that Ms. Gao has been tortured and undergone severe brainwashing since her arrest.