Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong Practitioners and a Human Rights Organisation hold a Joint Anti-Torture Exhibition in Southern Germany

Munich is the largest city in southern Germany. With the launch of direct flights between Munich and China in recent times, more and more Chinese tourists and officials are visiting the city. Last weekend in Munich, Falun Gong practitioners from southern Germany and an international human rights organisation jointly held an anti-torture exhibition opposing the Jiang Regime’s continuing persecution of Falun Gong. On Saturday afternoon, our reporter on the scene of the activity in Munich city centre, interviewed Mr. Bernhard Aurnhammer, an attendee of this activity.

Mr. Aurnhammer explained to the reporter, “We are now on Marienplatz in Munich city centre. As everyone may know, there are almost one hundred million people practising Falun Gong in China, but they have been brutally persecuted. We are here to expose to everyone that in over a thousand labour reformation centres established to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China, eight and a half million people are being persecuted to different extents; many people suffer agonising torture or beatings, and over a thousand people have been persecuted to death."

Mr. Aurnhammer also said that he himself had lots of Chinese friends who suffered this kind of persecution. Today’s activity has a very realistic illustration, which is Ms Xiong Wei who, with the help of Germany’s top human rights organisations, Amnesty International and the German Government, had just returned to Germany. She went back to China to work after finishing her studies in Germany and was imprisoned for two years because she disagreed with the Chinese government’s persecution of Falun Gong. In the interest of rescuing Xiong Wei, they held appeal activities widely in Germany to collect petition signatures. Not long ago she was released and eventually she came back to Germany. Now she is telling the European society about all kinds of cruelties that the Chinese government uses to persecute Falun Gong with her personal experiences and what she witnessed.

There is an endless flow of people on the square in Munich city centre on Saturday afternoon, especially tourists. The reporter saw lots of Chinese tourist groups coming to see the picture displays and received leaflets. Plenty of people looked like they came here for business, although they didn’t dare to receive material hastily, took photographs. In the mean time on the square, a couple of German media reporters interviewed Ms Xiong Wei in detail.