Canada: Press Conference in Vancouver Calls on Government to Bar Entry of CCP Official Huang Huahua

At noontime on October 13th, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in downtown Vancouver to expose Huang Huahua's crimes against practitioners in Guangdong Province and to call on the federal government not to allow Huang to enter Canada. Huang is the governor and deputy provincial Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary of Guangdong Province. Reportedly, Hua will lead a provincial delegation to visit Vancouver from October 20th to 25th.

The press conference site	A passerby signs a petition calling for the end of the persecution
Many people come to learn about the truth of the persecution	A practitioner reenacts a torture method used by the CCP against practitioners in China

Huang Huahua is the Prime Perpetrator of the Persecution in Guangdong Province

While Huang was the CCP secretary of Guangzhou City, he was in charge of directing and implementing the persecution. Under his direction, branches of the 610 Office were formed quickly at all levels of the city, which directly carried out the government's persecution policy. Consequently, many practitioners were unlawfully detained, imprisoned, subjected to brainwashing and tortured, resulting in the death of more than ten Guangzhou practitioners including Gao Xianmin, Chen Chengyong, Hao Yunjuan and Luo Zhixiang.

In January 2000, 41-year-old Gao Xianmin died from being force-fed with a highly concentrated salt-water solution. On December 2nd, Ms. Luo Zhixiang, who was pregnant, was persecuted to death. According to incomplete statistics, during Huang's tenure in Guangzhou, 14 practitioners were persecuted to death, 3 were disabled, 3 suffered a mental collapse and at least 66 practitioners were brutally tortured.

Guangdong Province is one of the worst provinces in terms of persecuting Falun Gong. In 2003, Huang was promoted to governor of Guangdong Province and the persecution in the province was then continuously escalating. In February 2004 and January 2005, Huang publicly instigated hatred and deployed persecution activities against Falun Gong. To date, it has been verified that 64 practitioners in Guangdong have been persecuted to death, and most of the deaths happened after Huang became the governor.

Recently, a lot of practitioners have been illegally arrested at home or work, and then sentenced to forced labour camps. The whereabouts of some practitioners are still unknown. According to incomplete statistics, 109 practitioners have been unlawfully arrested from January to June 2005.

During the 6-year persecution, Huang has closely followed the Jiang Zemin regime to persecute Falun Gong. Huang has not only directed the Guangzhou and Guangdong governments to implement Jiang's genocidal policy of "Defame their reputation, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically" against practitioners, but also personally went to lower level governments and even labour camps to encourage officials and state employees to carry out violent brainwashing and physical torture. The provincial government has been tightly controlling the media to fabricate lies in order to frame and slander Falun Gong and to instigate public hatred against the practice. In the past 6 years, many practitioners who refused to give up their belief have been unlawfully subject to arrest, violent brainwashing, torture and labour camp or prison terms. A lot of practitioners have been unlawfully deprived of their right to work, of going to school and of their entitled pensions. Furthermore, their relatives' normal lives were also severely disrupted by the authorities. These persecutory policies have left the practitioners under tremendous mental strain and in extreme poverty. Huang should be held accountable for the brutal persecution in Guangdong.

Calgary Practitioner, Originally from Guangzhou, Recounted His Experience

I was arrested on December 13th, 2000, together with three other practitioners. Right there in the police station we were brutally beaten from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next morning. I was hit repeatedly with an electric baton. I was also kicked repeatedly, and my head was grabbed and bashed hard against the corner of the wall. When I passed out from the beating, they poured cold water on me to wake me up. It was the month of December.

I was then sent to a forced labour camp, where I was forced to do slave labour for five and a half months. On average, we had to work about 16 or 17 hours a day, sometime even 20 hours. The food was very bad, only some rabbit meat, Chinese cabbage and bean sprouts with little salt and oil. I consequently became very weak.

On May 23rd, 2001, I was officially sentenced to two years in a labour camp and then secretly sent to the Intensive Torture Team of Guanzhou No.1 Forced Labour Camp, where I was subjected to more systematic mental and physical torture. I was subjected to intensive brainwashing, forced to watch videos and books which were fabricated to defame Falun Gong and Falun Gong's founder, not allowed to see my wife who is also a practitioner, and they attempted to force me to denounce my belief."

A Canadian Citizen Originally from China Recounted What Happened to Her Daughter

Naturalised Canadian citizen, Du Huiqin, 78, came from Zhongshan City, Guangdong. During the press conference, Ms. Du recounted what happened to her daughter: "My daughter Yang Jinyan had severe sinusitis since her childhood and later it became cancer. She often felt lightheaded, had a headache, and suffered from bleeding and had severe insomnia. However, she totally regained her health from practising Falun Dafa.

Since the persecution started in 1999, my daughter has been arrested six times, and her husband and their child were also affected. My son-in-law was a public bus driver. He was suspended from his position and forced to sign a promise letter with the Public Security Bureau to stay at home to monitor his wife. Consequently, the family had no income.

On December 7th, 2004, more than 10 policemen from the Qijiang Police Station of Zhongshan City unlawfully arrested my daughter from her home. Family members were not allowed to visit her for 2 months. In January, 2005, my daughter sent out a short letter from which we learned that she had been unlawfully sentenced to 2 years in a forced labour camp. She is now being detained in the 3rd Brigade of Sanshui Women's Labour Camp; her ID number is 984.

Through various Vancouver Chinese associations, the related government institutions of Zhongshan City told us to remain silent about our daughter's situation and asked me to go back to China to negotiate with them. In February, 2005, I went back China to rescue my daughter. In three months, I only had two opportunities to visit my daughter. I appealed to those institutions, but no one paid attention to me. My daughter has been forced to do hard labour and has developed high blood pressure, and her overall health condition is very bad."

Canadian Officials Reportedly Said that the Government Would Take All Possible Action

Given the fact that Huang's crimes meet the entry denial regulations of Canadian immigration law (Sections 35 (1) (a) and 3 31), practitioners have formally requested the federal government to not allow Huang Huahua to cross the Canadian border.

During the press conference, a letter to the Ministry of Immigration, Community Security and Correctional Services, and the Attorney General, written by human rights lawyer David Matas, was read. The letter stated that Huang was directly responsible for the severe persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Guangdong Province and should not be allowed to enter Canada.

Reportedly, on October 13th, the Canada Border Services Agency of Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Programme notified the chairman of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada and said that the agency had received materials which detailed Huang's participation in the persecution of Falun Gong, and promised that the agency would take all proper action according to Canadian law.