Germany: People in Passau are Concerned about the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in their Chinese Sister City Liuzhou

Passau is a sister city of Liuzhou city in Chin’a Guangxi Province. Since the start of the persecution against Falun Gong by the Jiang group in 1999, Liuzhao 610O Office, an organisation that was specially set up to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, and the public security bureau have responded actively. Especially by the end of last year, a large amount of material revealing the truth about the persecution has appeared in Liuzhou. The city’s 610 Office and police have begun arresting, kidnapping and controlling Dafa practitioners in large numbers again illegally. The practitioners who are on the blacklist have been shadowed and supervised by persons specially assigned for the task and telephone tapping is happening all the time. A large sum of money has been allocated to give awards to those “who have rendered great service”. We haven’t known the whereabouts of Dafa practitioners Tang Yunsheng, Xue Dongling and some others up till now.

On the 9th of October 2004, local Dafa practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition in the centre of Passau aiming to raise awareness about the persecution and a sense of justice and conscience from German citizens. Practitioners from Munich, Kam and Hunou came and supported the exhibition, too. We printed postcards addressed to the Mayor and called on them to pay attention to the suffering of Falun Gong practitioners in Liuzhou.

The anti-torture exhibition drew the attention of many passers-by immediately when it began. People slowed down and gathered round to view the exhibits. They were shocked at the cruel torture. Many citizens signed their names on postcards addressed to the Mayor and petitions to bring Jiang Zemin to justice for his crimes against Falun Gong.

On that day there were a lot of Chinese people passing by. Most of them were willing to accept a leaflet. After two Chinese girls were viewing the anti-torture exhibition for a while, one of them asked coldly whether the Dafa practitioner who was made up to be tortured was a Chinese or not, and why he was causing the Chinese to lose face. We told them kindly that what we were displaying was all real and only the tip of the iceberg which couldn’t be compared with the cruel persecution really happening in China. Jiang’s group have employed the state-controlled media and spread rumours slandering Falun Gong. By using a peaceful method, we are telling the truth to the people of the world and calling on the whole world to end the persecution of Falun Gong.

With his personal story of being illegally incarcerated in China, Mr. Chen Gang told the two girls how the Jiang group has persecuted his family members because he believes in Truthfulness, compassion and Forbearance, and how the Chinese Embassy in Munich refuses to extend his passport, which has brought him great trouble in both his life and study. As she refuses to sign her name on a guarantee to give up practising Falun Gong, his mother has been followed and forced to be away from home for two years and she has to leave China and go abroad now. His sister has been arrested and forced to go to brainwashing classes twice. She has been harassed constantly by the 610 Office after she was released. After hearing the facts repeatedly, the two girls changed their hostile attitude and accepted the leaflet about Falun Gong.