We Will Not Be Silenced!: Declaration From Falun Dafa Practitioners Incarcerated in Deyang Prison

By practitioners in Deyang Prison, Sichuan Province, China

To United Nations, Governments of Nations Worldwide and People from all Walks of Life:

We are Falun Dafa practitioners who are being persecuted by the Jiang regime in China, having been abducted to the Dayang Prison in Sichuan Province, China and illegally detained. Among us there are factory workers, farmers, students, businessmen, government officials, veterans of the armed services, teachers, lawyers, engineers, university undergraduates and graduate students. We represent a broad and diverse spectrum of occupations, professions and social classes.

Falun Dafa is a cultivation practice of the highest virtue. As Falun Dafa and its founder are absurdly and groundlessly persecuted and defamed, and numerous innocent Dafa practitioners are detained, sentenced, tortured, maimed, and murdered daily, we are exercising our right to speak out, to practise our faith, to communicate and to appeal as guaranteed by China's constitution, ceaselessly telling people about the truth of how Falun Dafa is being vilified, and how Dafa practitioners are persecuted, with a Falun Dafa practitioner's heart of honesty, kindness and great tolerance.

Yet our self-initiated, lawful and righteous acts are being used by the Jiang political regime of scoundrels as unwarranted charges so as to carry out their illegal detention and sentencing of us practitioners.

During our detention, while serving our sentences, the prison guards and deputies order groups of policemen and inmates to torture us - driven by the enticement of money, fame and promotions. Examples of the torture include handcuffing, leg shackles, beating with electric and wooden batons, solitary confinement, long periods of squatting down and bending down against the corner of the wall, long duration of standing in an "army corps" posture, continuous exposure to, or running long distances outside in, the intense sun, dehydration, prohibition of using the toilet, sleep deprivation, prohibition of: letter writing, prison visitation, and receiving money transfers; arbitrary insults and humiliation, forced feeding, and other illegal practises. At the same time they lured, enticed and coerced us to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement," [A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.] "Repentance Statement," [A statement to acknowledge remorse for practising Falun Gong, to give up Falun Gong, and to never again associate with those practitioners who practice Falun Gong and/or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.] and "Expose and Criticize Statement." [A statement to reveal and criticize unfounded charges against Falun Gong.]
In order to expose the evil, clarify the truth, validate Dafa and save sentient beings, we hereby jointly make the following declarations:

1. We will not abide by any of the so-called "Guarantee Statements," "Repentance Statements," and "Expose and Criticize Statements" which we were coerced to say or write under severe persecution and torture during our illegal detention and serving sentences. We declare all such statements null and void.

2. We sternly denounce using the so-called "transformation" material to dupe other Dafa practitioners and to deceive people under coercion by Jiang's political regime of scoundrels.

3. We solemnly warn the participating deputies, guards of the Deyang Prison, other prisons and forced labour re-education institutions nationwide, to awaken quickly and reclaim the basic human decency and conscience that humans should possess, recognize right from wrong, distinguish good from evil, and to separate the compassionate from the hideous. Do not continue to undermine Dafa and persecute Dafa practitioners using the excuse of "carrying out orders from above" and for self-interest. Otherwise, the punishment that you will receive will be most frightening.

4. We strongly request the Chinese government immediately release all innocent Dafa practitioners under detention and serving prison terms in Deyang Prison and elsewhere nationwide. We ask that all criminals be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.

5. We strongly call upon the Chinese government to reinstate the righteous name of Falun Dafa, and to restore the honour of Falun Dafa founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi.

6. We strongly appeal to all kind and righteous people to express their concern about the blatant violation of human rights and the criminal acts of persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. Together, let us expose and stop the evil, and work towards bringing the Falun Gong issue to a fair and just resolution in the nearest foreseeable future.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the entire group of Falun Dafa practitioners abducted from their homes and being illegally held in the Deyang Prison.

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