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Radio France International: Falun Gong Practitioners' Body Organs Harvested in Sujiatun Concentration Camp
2006-03-24Human rights organisations across the world pay special attention to the news that the Chinese Communist Regime secretly imprisons Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun Concentration Camp located in Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. The news reported that in the secret concentration camp 6000 Falun Gong practitioners were imprisoned since 2001 and no one has come out alive. -
Swedish Newspaper Reports on the Chinese Authorities Suppression of the Rising Human Rights Activists
2006-03-19Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng said, "We have no basic human rights, we have no option but to engage in a hunger strike for a long time. This is a tragedy." Gao Zhisheng was the initiator of the hunger strike. He served as the legal representative for dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners in the past and was almost assassinated. -
German Media Reports on a Chinese Lady from Cham Calling for Support for Human Rights
2006-03-18Two German newspapers, Chamer News and Chamland Aktuell reported about the call for support by a Chinese lady from Cham. Before the Secretary of State’s official visit to China, Mrs. Teng-Schwägerl sent him a letter, requesting that he bring up the issue of human rights whilst there. At the same time, she told him about the Chinese hunger strike movement in support of human rights and in protest against the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong. -
Holland Media Exposes Atrocity of Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang
2006-03-13The article stated that information about the camp was relayed via audio recording from a former intelligence agent of the CCP regime. It is the first time news of the secret camp's existence was disclosed to outsiders. The camp is said to hold over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners at any given time, and 'nobody has yet to come out' from it alive. According to the source, it contains a crematorium, and an unusually large number of doctors work there, reflecting the camp's practice of killing prisoners for their organs, which are then sold for profit. -
Italian Newspaper Reports on Attorney Gao and the Relay Hunger Strike against the Persecution
2006-03-11On February 23rd 2006, Italian newspaper “Cronache” reported that some Italian Falun Gong practitioners and other non-governmental organisations participated in a Relay Hunger Strike against the persecution in China to support Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng. Lawyer Gao is under pressure because he supports Falun Gong practitioners. -
EFGIC: Concentration Camp for Falun Gong Disclosed; Prisoners Killed for Organ Harvesting
2006-03-10BRUSSELS (EFGIC) — Since the Nuremberg Trials came to a close in 1946, condemning the Nazi officials responsible for the holocaust, it has been the common hope of the people in the world that concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, would never again emerge in the history of mankind. The horrifying fact is that a similar facility is at this very moment in operation in China. The European Falun Gong Information Centre received shocking, detailed information on Wednesday from a Chinese Communist Party insider documenting a concentration camp set up in Shenyang city, Liaoning province, expressly for Falun Gong practitioners. -
Danish National Newspaper Reports on Relay Hunger Strike in China
2006-03-08"As a lawyer, Gao has defended in court hundreds of Falun Gong-members, democracy activists and farmers who have had their land confiscated by the state. As a private person he has sent letters to the leaders of the country and criticised their policies. He is even open about calling the Chinese Communist Party ‘evil’. Gao Zhisheng is playing with fire – and doing it even though he lives in Beijing, within the range of China’s regime, which so dreads criticism...From his apartment in the capital Gao has now started a hunger strike and he says that at least 70 other people from across the country have joined in." -
Nordland Daily (Norway): Details of the Persecution
2006-02-28On February 24th, two reporters from the Nordland Daily, the largest newspaper in northern Norway, interviewed eleven Chinese practitioners who have been recently accepted by the Norwegian government as refugees. Eleven practitioners from four families recounted the benefits to mind and body that Falun Gong has brought to them, and the brutal persecution that they have experienced in China at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. -
German Newspaper: Unfounded Inspection Is Illegal
2006-02-22German newspaper “Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten” published an article on February 1st 2006 entitled “Unfounded Inspection is Illegal”. The article reports that Falun Gong practitioners’ lawsuit against German policemen’s violation of their human rights under the Chinese Communist Party’s pressure, which was handed in and dealt with by the Dresden City Administrative Court, was successful. The report says that the Dresden Administrative Court decided in their judgement that the police have no right at all to order an individual of any nationality belonging to any religious group to depart from a certain place. -
French Newspaper: Lawyer who Defends Human Rights for Falun Gong Holds Hunger Strike
2006-02-21France’s largest newspaper Le monde published reports on 12th and 13th February 2006 entitled “Human Rights Activist in China Initiates Relay Hunger Strike”. The articles point out that China’s declining human rights situation and the Chinese Communist authorities’ escalating violence and persecution triggered off a relay hunger strike for human rights, with lawyers, journalists, law scholars and people of all levels of society taking part. -
Turkish Practitioners Invited to Introduce Falun Gong on TV Morning News
2006-02-20On February 15th, practitioners from Ankara were invited by KANAL-D, one of the largest of Turkey’s private TV stations. The host told his audience: “I hope every Turkish will practise Falun Gong and have a healthy body.” Immediately after the news, the TV station received many phone inquiries about Falun Gong. -
Newspaper Welt am Sonntag Interviews a German Falun Gong Practitioner
2006-02-17"Jing Wang is a follower of the Falun Gong movement that has been persecuted since 1999 in China and she is well informed about human rights violations including abductions, torture, forced labour camps and the death penalty. The penal code allows for arbitrary arrest and sentencing of unwanted individuals under the pretext that they are endangering public security or that they are counterrevolutionary or subversive. Ms. Wang said that the communists feel especially threatened by groups like Falun Gong that have a spiritual orientation and have been extremely popular during the last few years." -
EFGIC: CCP Agents Going Over the Edge: Violent Home Jacking in Atlanta, Ransacked and Plundered Flat in Paris
2006-02-14”We call upon the French and US law enforcement to investigate this matter. It is an assault on Western citizens by agents of the Chinese regime. We also call upon the French and U.S. government to communicate to Chinese consular officials in clear and public terms that there will be zero tolerance for such illicit behavior here in the West." -
The Torniojokilaakso Newspaper (Lapland): Falun Gong Exhibition in the Pello Library
2006-02-13"Falun Gong practitioners Anja and Veijo Pekkarinen have found a new lifestyle in this practice, which balances the energies of mind and body. Practising is not easy as one tries to live as a good unselfish person who treats other people with compassion ... " -
Article from Main Post Newspaper in Germany: Deportation Topic Discussed in Berlin
2006-02-10"The Würzburg Administrative Court rejected Jiang’s asylum request in March 2005. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reversed its decision in November — only after he was persecuted and sentenced in China — and approved Jiang’s asylum request retroactively. However, this delayed recognition of the family’s plight does not do that family any good. Jiang’s passport was confiscated and he cannot leave China."