After the persecution started I often wondered what happened to the friends that I met during my three visits to China. Are they still cultivating? Have they suffered from torture? Are they still alive? Why are such good people being persecuted? I just could not understand.
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My next trip to China was in December 1997. Practitioners from many countries celebrated Christmas Eve together with the Chinese practitioners. At my table there was a man that I recognized. It was that young man who led the Fa study group in which I had taken part the previous year. His name was Lin Chentao and he was a scientist. Later we had experience sharing at our hotel together with practitioners from different countries. I was very glad when Lin proudly presented his wife. They had recently married. She was that helpful, smiling woman I had met in 1996. I got to know Lin Chentao a little better this time. I remember his warm, humble smile and his deep understanding of the Fa. I met him again in Beijing in January 1999.
I have now heard that he has been tortured so severely in Tuanhe Labour Camp that he has became mentally disabled. He knew that Falun Dafa is a righteous way, yet it was demanded of him that he give it up. Of course he did not! His wife Zhang Xiaojie, a music teacher, is now suffering in a female labour camp. Meanwhile their 2 year old daughter is missing her parents.
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Lin Chentao and his family have been torn apart. Sadly to say there are many, many others who have suffered like this and it makes my heart bleed.
Hereby, I appeal to the Chinese government: Stop this ridiculous persecution! Release Lin Chentao, Zhang Xiaojie, and all other imprisoned Falun Dafa practitioners in China. These good-hearted people have done nothing wrong! They do not want political power they have other, much finer goals in their lives: to be a good person, and become an even better person. What is wrong with that?
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