With increasing frequency, adherents of this movement in the Netherlands are being intimidated by state loyal Chinese. She [Ms. Wang XiangHe] knows the stories of threatening phone calls and computer viruses the members of the Falun Gong in the Netherlands receive from China. But these are matters are not the only ones that worry her. This woman from Amsterdam is also concerned about the fate of her family in China.
"My mother has lived in the Netherlands for eight years. When she went back to China she was almost immediately arrested because she practices Falun Gong. My mother is 85 years old; how could anyone do such a thing to her?" Brothers and nieces of Wang also disappeared to jail.
According to Wang, the Chinese embassy in The Hague searches actively for Falun Gong practitioners. She tells about infiltration of Chinese student practitioners in Utrecht. "There was someone who constantly asked questions about Falun Gong and passed on names to the embassy." The consequences, says Peter Houben, a Falun Gong adherent from Maastricht, are that these people so named are no longer allowed to enter China.
According to estimates, the movement has several hundred adherents in the Netherlands to where the long arm of the Chinese authorities also stretches. "It took the form of e-mail viruses." That Falun Gong adherents outside China are being intimidated is a fact for him. "When the movement appealed in front of the Chinese embassy, employees came out to take photos, and they do everything to slander us. The Chinese embassy in Belgium, for instance, organised an exhibition in which they falsely portrayed Falun Gong as being evil and dangerous. They invited a minister and captured his visit extensively on video.
This propaganda video is now frequently played in China, in the hopes of implying that people abroad don't want to have anything to do with Falun Gong either.
The BVD expects that tensions within the Chinese community will increase as the number of entrepreneurs that emigrate to the Netherlands increases.
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