Hong Kong: Arrested for Clarifying the Truth in Mainland China, Ms. Liu Ding has been Rescued to Hong Kong

With the efforts from people of all walks of life, Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioner Liu Ding was released on the afternoon of June 22nd, 2006 from a detention centre in Beijing. Liu Ding was illegally detained early this month in Beijing for distributing leaflets supporting the withdrawal of the CCP and its affiliated organisations. After being released, she was immediately escorted by the "police" officers to Beijing Airport. She took the afternoon flight and arrived in Hong Kong in the evening. Before boarding the flight, the police illegally confiscated her China travel document.

Liu Ding recounted her 15-day illegal detention in Beijing. She was detained in a small room, that was roughly 10-square metres, with 13 other detainees. The conditions were very bad. But she kept doing the exercises and studying the Fa, and she also clarified the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong to her cell mates and officers who interrogated her. Because of this, her treatment improved to a certain extent. Liu Ding and her daughter Hu Ying who is in Hong Kong thank members of the Legislative Council Ho Chun Yan, Lau Wai Hing, Leung Kwok Hung and Cheung Man-kwong, as well as the Hong Kong government, including the Hong Kong Immigration Department for their efforts in securing her release.

Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners and the "Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners" Hong Kong Branch call on the international community to continue to pay attention to the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in China. At present, four Hong Kong residents are known to have been sentenced to prison by the CCP for practising Falun Gong, and three of them have been released. Eight more Hong Kong residents' relatives in the Mainland who practise Falun Gong are still being detained in forced labour camps or prisons.