Press Release: Falun Gong Information Centre, Germany

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Press Release April 25, 2002

China: New TV Broadcast Exposes Lies and Crimes

Peaceful Sit-Ins and passive Resistance are Obvious Signs of Falun Gong today at the third Anniversary of the “Zhongnanhai Appeal”

April 25, 2002 (Falun Gong Information Centre/Germany)

During the night of April 20th to April 21st, 2002, the Province of Heilongjiang/China was the site for yet another interrupted public TV airing. Some people managed to tie into the cable TV network and show a 75-minute long program of Falun Gong, dealing with human rights abuses in the PRC, the government-staged so-called “self-immolation” incident as well as the world-wide spread of Falun Gong, among other topics. Also shown was footage of the April 25, 1999 appeal by Falun Gong followers at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese seat of government in Beijing. According to reliable information, many cable-TV viewers in a certain section of a metropolitan city in Heilongjiang Province were able to view the tape.

Since the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, Chinese citizens and Westerners alike have peacefully appealed to not only the Chinese government, but to all governments, organizations and individuals, to help bring an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

So far, the largest appeal by Falun Gong practitioners did happen on April 25, 1999, when approximately 10,000 practitioners had gathered in Beijing to voice their concerns with the Appeals Bureau, where the police authorities directed them to Zhongnanhai, the seat of government. Three months later the Chinese government declared this appeal effort a “conspiracy.” July 20, 1999 was the beginning date of a huge wave of arrests of Falun Gong practitioners., and on July 22, 1999, authorities in the PR of China’s government outlawed Falun Gong.

Today on the third anniversary of this incident, Falun Gong practitioners in Germany show solidarity with the victims in China and are remembering them by their peaceful sit-ins in front of Chinese embassies and consulates.

Falun Gong Information Centre Germany wishes to let you know that in the face of total media control and news block-outs prevailing in China by order of the ruling dictator and his government, this TV program about Falun Gong brought a ray of hope to all innocently persecuted people in China.

Further information about the “Zhongnanhai Appeal” may be found on the Internet at:
http://www.clearharmony.net/de/articles/2443.html

To inform yourself further about the acute persecution situation and especially about the deaths that have already occurred, please contact our website:
http://www.faluninfo.de/tnamensliste.html