Urgent Appeal by Family Members of Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretly detains and kills Falun Gong practitioners, removes their internal organs for profit, then cremates their bodies to eliminate evidence of their crimes at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in China. As family members of illegally arrested Falun Gong practitioners, we urgently appeal for International Human Rights Organisations and the United Nations to independently investigate the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in China, stop the persecution, and hold the perpetrators accountable for their crimes.

The CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has lasted for almost seven years. The fact that more than six thousand practitioners have been detained and cruelly persecuted in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp obviously once again highlights the CCP's evil and bloodthirsty nature. It betrays and deceives people, and is still abducting many innocent people.

The CCP promotes persecutory policies against Falun Gong practitioners including "ruining their reputations, bankrupting them, and destroying them physically," "beating them to death is nothing and shall be counted as suicide," and "no measure is too excessive when dealing with Falun Gong." The CCP has been insidiously trying to wipe out Falun Gong from the beginning of the persecution in July of 1999. The methods of killing practitioners are appalling and shocking. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are verified to have been tortured to death. However, there are most likely many more cases waiting to be discovered. Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are being detained in violation of the law. It is difficult for a normal person to imagine the brutal persecution methods the CCP has used. Especially, the so-called "non-transformed" practitioners suffer what a normal person cannot imagine, both physically and emotionally. Some of them have not been allowed to see their families since they were illegally sentenced to prison, and some of them have had no communication at all since they were unlawfully arrested.

The methods used by persecutors to remove practitioners' internal organs for profit and the secret cremations are repeated in high numbers. They cremate the bodies immediately to destroy the evidence. The practitioners' families are not even allowed to see the bodies.

The CCP has set up a secret concentration camp for Falun Gong practitioners. The camp is located in the Sujiatun District, where more than 6000 Falun Gong practitioners were transferred from the Shenyang Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province, and other locations in central China, and locked up. The camp has its own crematorium and an unusually large number of doctors. This reveals that the CCP realises its crimes and is killing the victims to destroy the evidence of the crimes. The obvious outcome is that the CCP's evil nature and actions are promoting its own demise.

However, practitioners' families should be clearheaded and rational at this very important moment. We should go to police stations, detention centres, Forced Labour Camps and prisons to demand the release of our family members. We cannot let our relatives be persecuted. We must prevent our Falun Gong relatives from being transferred to the Sujiatun Concentration Camp.

We should speak out to the global Falun Gong practitioners and other people of conscience in the world: Please let us cooperate and stop this brutal persecution! All crimes must be accounted for, and Falun Dafa practitioners' freedoms must be restored!

The families of practitioners who are being persecuted in China