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November 03, 2000

Lord Avebury, Member of House of Lord of UK Writes to Zhao Ming in Labor Camp

From Lord Avebury

Tel 44 20 7274 4617

Fax 44 20 7738 7864

E-mail ericavebury@hotmail.com

October 27, 2000

Dear Ming Zhao,

I was very sorry to learn of your detention by the authorities in the People' Republic of China, as a punishment for being a Falun Gong practitioner. It is distressing beyond words that thousands of people like you are being held in custody and sometimes tortured, because of their peaceful spiritual and exercise practices. The Chinese Government has signed up to international agreements guaranteeing freedom of religion and belief, but they are not honoring their commitment. We try our best to persuade our own government to raise this matter with the authorities in Beijing, and some of us, Members of both Houses of Parliament, have also been to see the Chinese Ambassador to express our concern.

Falun Gong TV Program " Lights Illuminate" To Be Broadcast

The TV program " Lights Illuminate," founded by Falun Gong practitioners world wide and warm-hearted people from all walks of life, is being broadcasted by a North American Satellite TV Station through satellite and cable TV stations every Saturday 7:30-8:30PM. The program covers the USA, Canada and Mexico.

Amnesty Internationl Dublin News: Ordeal of a Trinity Student

AMNESTY INTERNAIONAL DUBLIN CENTRAL GROUP NEWS

COORDINATOR' DESK

ORDEAL OF A TRINITY STUDENT

Professor Zhu Hang was practicing Falun Dafa in a park on August 30, 1999 when she was arrested by police. Professor Zhu was reportedly tortured with something called the Di Lao device, which literally translated means the "prison in hell" device. Professor Zhu is one of many thousands of people who have been imprisoned, sent to labour camps and reportedly tortured in China for practicing Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong. Zhao Jinhua, a 42 year old woman from Shandong Province did not survive her torture; ten days after her arrest she died as a result of severe beatings at the hands of the police. She is apparently not the only fatality of the Chinese government抯 crackdown on Falun Gong. It is reported that almost fifty practitioners have died because of the brutality of the security forces in China. Tao Hongsheng, as Chinese intelligence officer and former Air Force commander, died after he was confined to a cell at a labour camp and denied medical treatment for two months, according to a Hong Kong based human rights group. His wife Yu Fengyun said: "He loved his country, he wasn' against the government. He just wanted to tell the leaders that Falun Gong is not a XX, that it' good." Others have died as a result of unnecessary medical treatment in mental hospitals.