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Radio France Internationale: Nearly One Hundred French MPs Urge the President to Raise Human Rights Issues with the Visiting Chinese Premier
2005-12-11
In an open letter to Chirac, Jack Lang wrote that according to the available information, the Chinese government plans to not carry out true direct broadcasting during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, instead the broadcasts would be delayed by a few seconds. He pointed out that behind this technical issue of delaying a broadcast for a few seconds is Beijing’s true intention of avoiding all pictures of demonstrations. If this is true, then Beijing must be condemned. -
Swedish Media Report: United Nations Special Rapporteurs Say Torture is Still Prevalent in China
2005-12-10On December 2nd, 2005, several Swedish news networks carried a report by Reuters and the BBC saying that torture is still prevalent in China. The report said that according to Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on torture, torture is prevalent in China and only when China undertakes major reform of its judicial system and achieves judicial independence will the situation of torture be controlled. Nowak was the first UN Special Rapporteur on torture to be invited to conduct an investigation of the issue of torture in China in ten years. -
EFGIC: Two Falun Gong Women Raped Amid UN Rapporteur Visit
2005-12-04
LONDON (EFGIC) — The European Falun Gong Information Centre (EFGIC) has learned of the November 25th rape in police custody of two Falun Gong women, ages 42 and 51. Shocking photos suggest the violent nature of at least one of the two rapes. The rapes, occurring only three days after the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture arrived in China for investigation, took place at the Dongchengfang Town Police Station in Tunzhou, Hebei. -
Spain: Canary Islands TV Broadcasts Special Falun Gong Programme
2005-12-01
As this year’s summer holiday finished, another practitioner and I were invited by a Canary Islands TV station to host a special Falun Gong programme together with the TV station’s director. The director is very interested in Oriental culture. Not long ago, he also started to learn Falun Gong. He especially devised this programme about Falun Gong. -
Spain’s biggest newspaper El Pais Exposes China's Human Rights Abuse
2005-11-28During Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Spain, the country’s biggest newspaper El Pais published an article entitled Cruel Torture and the Death Penalty to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s human rights abuses. The article pointed out that there are many dark sides of China’s miracles and the fact that both economic openness and political impediment coexist in China. -
Spanish newspaper La Voz de Almeria publishes article about the lawsuit against the Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai
2005-11-27"Bo Xilai, who will likely accompany the Chinese President during his trip to Spain from the 13th to the 15th of November, has been subjected to criminal lawsuits in various countries around the world, including England, Germany, Poland, the United States, Chile and Peru, accused of grave crimes against humanity, genocide and torture against Chinese citizens for their spiritual beliefs, where hundreds have died through cruel torture." -
Mainpost (Germany): Will there be a miracle for Jiang Renzheng?
2005-11-25"For years, Chinese citizen Jiang Renzheng and his wife Ms. Rui Guo fought for their right to stay in Germany, but in March of 2005, the Falun Gong adherents and their two children, one and two years old, were deported from Würzburg. That they would not face any danger was the reason for the refusal of their request for asylum. Until September, the belief was widely held that only Falun Gong adherents that have appealed publicly for the banned group would be in danger." -
Westline, Ruhr News (Germany): Protest at the Roadside
2005-11-24"Human rights activists from Amnesty International and the spiritual practice Falun Gong demonstrated behind barricades in Eving’s downtown against China’s continued human rights violations. The spiritual movement Falun Gong has been banned in China since 1999, and the regime is persecuting its members. Adherents are sent to re-education or forced labour camps, said Angela Xie- Großjohann, who has lived in Germany for four years." -
During Hu Jintao’s Visit to Germany, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs were to Request the Release of Jiang Renzheng
2005-11-23On the eve of Hu Jintao’s state visit to Germany, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs took measures to help Jiang Renzheng and his family to leave China. Jiang and his family are Falun Gong practitioners who wee deported from Germany after the German Government mistakenly thought that they would not be in any danger. Upon their return to China, persecution started and Jiang was put in a forced labour camp. But after the German Government's intervention, Benxi Labour Camp of Liaoning Province hampered the departure of Jiang Renzheng and his family. The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured a local Falun Gong representative that Jiang’s release would be brought up during official meetings with Hu Jintao. -
German Media Reports on Chinese Communist Leader’s Visit
2005-11-22The Chinese President started his four-day state visit to Germany on November 10th. Hu has been well known for his low profile and the western society knows very little about him. As this was Hu’s first visit to Germany in his presidency, his activities drew widespread attention from the German media. In a news commentary programme broadcast by ARD TV on the day of Hu’s arrival in Berlin, it mentioned: “China is a beautiful country with diligent citizens. But does that mean we have to love the Chinese leader? Our answer is ‘No’. Even Hu can put up charming smiles on his face, Berlin’s red rug is actually laid out for a tyrant.” -
Radio France Internationale (RFI): US State Department’s Annual Report States that China Continues to Persecutes Falun Gong
2005-11-19"The U.S. has long been concerned about the fact that there is no freedom of religion in China. Given that, in the U.S. State Department’s annual report, China was relegated to the category of countries subject to special attention. The report criticised China because its respect for freedom of religion and freedom of belief remained poor. The report also said that some religious leaders, followers, and even those in some official churches were detained, arrested, sentenced or put into forced labour camps for re-education." -
Article from Spanish Web Site: A Human Rights Lawyer in China Is Being Persecuted by the Government
2005-11-17"The famous Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhicheng was forced to close his legal chamber for a year by the Chinese Communist Government because he wrote letters to the government to asking them to stop the persecution of the Falun Gong group. “The Judiciary Office informed me shut down the chamber for one year yesterday. If I opposed, they would limit my personal freedom,” lawyer Gao said." -
Article from UK Newspaper: "I begged for water. I heard the agonised cries of someone else being tortured. even one of the guards burst into tears at what he saw."
2005-11-17
Sleep deprivation was the preferred method of torture by the C.C.P. Li was put in solitary confinement. As soon as he closed his eyes there would be loud shouting and banging and his eyelids would be forcibly pulled open and a violet light shone into his face. Recordings of people denouncing Falun Gong were played at ear-piercing volumes. His face was brutally slapped and he was kept naked in a cell that was continually hosed down with freezing water. -
Broadcast by Radio France International: Former Chinese '6-10' Officer and Diplomat Discuss the CCP's Persecution Against Falun Gong and Human Rights Issues in China (Part 2)
2005-11-16For two consecutive days from the 24th to the 25th of October 2005, the Chinese section of Radio France International broadcast special interviews with Hao Fengjun, a former Chinese official from the ‘6-10 Office’, and former Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin on subjects of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and human rights issues in China. -
United Kingdom Media Report: With the Largest Banners, Falun Gong Called for the Release of Practitioners in China
2005-11-12
Several UK media, including the BBC and The Times, reported that China’s President Hu Jintao was greeted by protests on his arrival to the UK. Excerpts are reproduced here.
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