NGOs

• Representative of the Worldwide Organisation for Women Condemns the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners’ Families and Children

  2004-08-23
  "In China, families who practise Falun Gong are suffering....The practice of Falun Gong was banned in 1999. Vicious persecution has followed leaving families tortured and torn apart. The children themselves suffer as they are sometimes imprisoned with their parents...These situations violate numerous articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child."
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• Switzerland: Statement by International Educational Development Supporting the Lawsuits Filed by Falun Gong Practitioners Outside China

  2004-08-18
  On August 6th 2004, at the 56th session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, item 6:specific human rights issues, the representative of International Educational Development brought before the meeting the lawsuits filed by Falun Gong practitioners outside China and expressed her organisation's support for the action taken.
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• A Representative of the Association of World Citizens made a Speech at a Plenary Session of the Fifty-Sixth Session of the Sub Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights held at the United Nations Office in Geneva

  2004-08-14
  This system equates to veritable economic slavery set up and maintained by the Chinese Government. It violates the Chinese Constitution and international laws such as International Labour Organisation Conventions Nos. 29 and 105 It encourages corruption, torture and organised crime (for 570 cases of death from torture in the camps, 24 per cent were Falun Gong practitioners).
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• The Society for Threatened People (GfbV) Contacts the Chinese Ambassador to Austria Regarding Falun Gong Practitioner Yong Wang’s Passport Extension Rejection

  2004-08-10
  "Mr Yong Wang advised us concerning his Chinese passport extension rejection. We understand that he has not received, as of date, a written clarification concerning the denial of his right and freedom of travel. We view your actions concerning the revocation of Yong Wang’s citizenship without any clarification of due process, as a serious violation of human rights, given legal precedence and direct as well as indirect declarations of applicable UN Agreements."
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• Statement by NGO Interfaith International at the 56th Session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

  2004-08-08
  "Purely for economic interests, enterprises of all sizes and foreign investors who are aware of the situation prefer to close their eyes. They do not consider the fact that they are making themselves accomplices of what well-known human rights lawyers consider one of the most serious situations of persecution and genocide currently existing, in terms both of its size and of the means used: slander, incitement to hatred, incitement to denounce, privation of all social, economic and cultural rights, torture and murder."
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• “The Society for Threatened People, will take measures to ensure that leading Chinese politicians who have ordered the annihilation of Falun Gong will suffer the legal consequences of their acts.”

  2004-07-31
  "Five years after the start of the persecution of Falun Gong, the repression of Falun Gong is escalating in China...The Society for Threatened People accuses the People’s Republic of China of blatant disregard for their constitutional guarantees of freedom of belief and for purposely criminalising a peaceful spiritual practice."
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• Letter from the President of the International Association for Human Rights to the Chinese Ambassador in Vienna

  2004-07-14
  "The car carrying the gunman did not stop. Liang, an Australian Falun Gong practitioner of Chinese decent was the only one shot at. He was the only one in the car wearing a jacket with the words “Falun Dafa.” This points to the conclusion that the shooting was a premeditated action against Falun Gong during the two officials’ visit. Zeng, Bo, and other high officials who have given orders in China that have resulted and still result in torture and death."
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• Statement from the Chairman of Olympic Watch on the United Nations International Day to Support Torture Victims

  2004-07-11
  On the International Day against Torture, June 26th, Olympic Watch calls on the government of the People’s Republic of China to stop the abhorrent practises of torture and ill-treatment throughout the PRC. We commemorate the victims of torture by the communist authorities in China, be it Falun Gong practitioners, political prisoners, or other people. Torture can never be excused and the People’s Republic of China has pledged to eradicate it by its ratification of the Convention against torture.
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• Letter from the Interprofessional Workers’ Association to the Chinese Ambassador in Austria

  2004-07-04
  "For several long years now, the Chinese Government has undertaken a series of measures to put an end to the development of this practise. Even worse, President Jiang Zemin, head of Government at that time, was to make the decision to prohibit Falun Gong and to persecute its practitioners. From different reports, therefore, mainly from human rights organisations, it appears that there are hundreds of people who have been arrested and imprisoned, and who still remain locked up in forced labour camps."
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• Speech at a UK Press Conference by European Friends of Falun Gong

  2004-07-01
  "On Monday this week, a Falun Gong practitioner, David Liang, was driving from Johannesburg to Pretoria in South Africa, when his car came under gunfire from hitmen hired by Chinese officials eager to counteract the serving of legal papers against the two Chinese government officials, Vice President Zeng Qinghong, and Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai."
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• Amnesty International Annual Report Exposes China’s Suppression of Falun Gong

  2004-06-02
  Amnesty International released its annual report on human rights status across the world on May the 26th 2004. This report outlines the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, including the rising death toll. It also portrays details of the death of a practitioner from Jilin Province who was beaten to death by prison inmates who were instructed to do so by the prison officials.
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• A Seminar on Human Rights in China was Held in the Norwegian Parliament

  2004-06-01
  The Norwegian Parliament was the venue for a seminar on the human rights situation in China. It was hosted by Parliament members and co-arranged by the Norwegian Falun Dafa Association. Many parliament members and representatives from human rights organisations and persecuted groups attended the seminar.
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• UK: Explaining the Facts at an Amnesty International Meeting in Huddersfield

  2004-05-25
  On May the 20th, 2004, a Falun Gong practitioner attended a meeting held by the UK Amnesty International working group in Huddersfield. At the meeting, the practitioner explained the facts about Falun Gong to four Amnesty members and showed them a truth-clarification video. When talking about Jiang’s genocide policy against Falun Gong, one of the members appeared to be shocked deeply. The head of this Amnesty International working group expressed his support for Falun Gong, and his wish to do something to rescue Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Olympic Watch Issues Press Release on World Falun Dafa Day

  2004-05-18
  Prague, March 19th 2004 – On the occasion of Falun Dafa Day, Olympic Watch (Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in a Free and Democratic Country) has issued a statement today, condemning religious persecution in the People’s Republic of China. Olympic Watch was established in Prague in 2001. Its mission is to monitor the human rights situation in China in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and to campaign to achieve improvements in the lives of the people of China.
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• Belgian Amnesty International Issues a Statement Regarding the Chinese Premier’s Visit to Belgium and the EU China Trade Forum

  2004-05-10
  Belgian Amnesty International issued a statement on the Chinese premier’s visit to Belgium and the EU China trade forum. The statement especially pointed out that the International Amnesty requests the Chinese government to conduct a thorough, fair and independent investigation into the already verified deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in detention centres, reports on Falun Gong practitioners being subjected to torture during detention periods and brutally persecuted.
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