Voices of Justice

• World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong -- Statement of Establishment of the Special Committee to Investigate the Crimes of Killing the Practitioners of Falun Gong
• Text of Complaint Charging Jiang and 610 Office with Genocide
• Open Letter to Chinese Leaders from the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organization Against Torture

World Wide Rescue Efforts

• Houston, Texas: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Rally in front of the Chinese Consulate to Protest the Jiang Regime's Illegal Arrest of US Citizen, Mr. Charles Li (Photos)
• Sydney, Australia: Nancy Chen Relates Her Ordeal in China During A Press Conference Outside the Chinese Consulate (Photo)

Open Forum

• Media Reports on U.S. Spaceshuttle Columbia's Disaster
• VOA Report: Columbia Disaster and Chinese Anti-American Sentiments
• Taiwan's MUCH TV Station Is Forced to Cancel Its Falun Gong Program -- Where Is the Black Hand Threatening Taiwan's Media
• Commentary from Hong Kong: How Can Citizens' Rights Be Bargained?
• AFP (Agence France-Presse): Hong Kong government "fixed subversion law consultation results"

Practitioners Exchange Insights

• My Understanding of Why Interference Occurs
• Exposing the Nature of "Enlightening Along an Evil Path" (Part 2)
• Watching the Birth Of New Galactic Stars

People Awaken to the Truth

• Prisoners Protect Dafa Practitioners in a Detention Center
• A Dafa Practitioner's Brother and Sister Nobly Help Practitioners and Resist Persecution
• People Who Have Come to Know the Truth

Practitioner's Stories

• Remembering Dafa Practitioner Ding Lihong's Fa Rectification Experiences
• To My Beloved Mother and All Detained Practitioners
• A Memorable Cultivation Experience

Facts of the Persecution

• Former Deputy Director of the Laser Research Institute at Sun Yat-Sen University and His Mother-in-Law Are Kidnapped
• Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhou Hua, of Harbin Industrial University, and Others Unlawfully Imprisoned in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp
• Police Authorities in the Brainwashing Center of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Instigate Collaborators to Torture Dafa Practitioners
• Using Force in a Guangzhou Brainwashing Center to Persecute Dafa Disciples

Karmic Retribution

• A Few Examples of Immediate Retribution in China
• Bad Deeds Bring Retribution: Examples from China

News from China

• Latest News from China - 01/28/2003
• 41 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and VoidUnder Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void
• Summary of Other Articles and News - 02/02/2003

News and Activities Around the World

• Falun Dafa Practitioners Around the World Send Chinese New Year Greetings to Master (Photos)
• Video: Austria: Western Falun Gong Practitioners Send New Year's Greetings to Chinese People
• UK: Falun Dafa Practitioners Join York Chinese Community's New Year Celebration Performance (Photos)
• France: Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa in Paris During the Chinese Lunar New Year (Photos)
• Belgium: At the Beginning of the New Year, Belgian Practitioners Go to Antwerp's Chinatown to Introduce Falun Dafa (Photos)
• Seoul, Korea: Clarifying the Truth to Chinese People of Korean Nationality at A Grand New Year Celebration (Photos)
• San Jose, California: Falun Gong Practitioners Well-received in A Grand New Year Parade (Photos)
• Video: FGM TV News - 01/28/2003

February 4, 2003

According to various sources, within the three and a half years since July 20, 1999, 564 practitioners of Falun Gong have been verified as having been tortured to death; these cases span across 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities. However, according to internal government statistics, the actual death toll had reached 1,600 by the end of 2001. Through extensive investigations of evidence concerning the aforementioned death cases, it is known that large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted to death is indeed an undisputed fact. This has caused widespread concern in the international community.

Without any due process, numerous Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally detained and imprisoned, suffering long-term physical and mental abuses that have led to many deaths; there have even been incidents of mass killing. Moreover, among those Falun Gong practitioners and individuals who have been persecuted to death are people young and old of all ages, from senior citizens older than 70 years to infants as young as eight months. Those Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death solely because they would not give up their practice of Falun Gong.

Yet in Mainland China, the authorities have been vigorously covering up the facts, not allowing family members to pay their last visits to the victims, let alone take pictures or video-recordings, and even cremating the bodies in a rush without notifying the victims' families. They have even gone so far as to fabricate and propagate lies and threaten and illegally detain and beat the victims' family members and people of conscience who wish to investigate the causes of death.

Among the many cases, there has yet to be a single case placed on file for investigation by the Chinese judiciary. All individuals who are directly responsible for the deaths (excluding those who have since died) are still at large. This clearly indicates that, when it comes to cases concerning Falun Gong, the existing public security and judicial departments in Mainland China have failed to demonstrate the ability and the moral courage to exercise the law; they have shown no intention of bringing these criminals to justice.

To date, this persecution is still persisting. As the death cases continue to climb and the persecution continues to escalate, more and more innocent people in Mainland China are facing the threats of torture and death every day.

Based on the aforementioned reasons, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong hereby announces the establishment of a special investigation committee -- the Committee to Investigate the Crimes of Killing the Practitioners of Falun Gong -- to locate and to use all possible means to investigate those individuals and those involved departments and work units responsible for the killing of Falun Gong practitioners. This is to protect Falun Gong practitioners' basic right to existence and to uphold justice. We encourage those who have the information to contact and cooperate with the Committee.

E-mail: jubao@upholdjustice.org
Tel.: 617-325 3481
Fax: 617-325 8729

Or write to: Mr. Frank Wang
PO BOX 365326
Hyde Park, MA 02136

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Appendix

Chi Chunxia, Female, Mishan, Heilongjiang	Wei Zaixin, Male, 63, Fushun, Liaoning	Zhang Guiqin, Female, 37, Hefei, Anhui
Du Xu, Male, Nanyang, Hunan	Wang Bin, Male, 45, Daqing, Heilongjiang	Shi Bei, Female, Fuyang, Zhejiang
Wang Lixuan, Female, 27, Infant son Meng Hao, 7 months old, Yantai, Shandong	Chen Zixiu, Female, 59, Weifang, Shandong	Zhao Yayun, Female, 54, Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang

Among all the death cases that have been verified, 194 deaths occurred in the three provinces in northeast China. This is equivalent to over 36.9% of the nationwide death toll. This committee aims to compile a list of names of those people responsible and those who can provide information and evidence. The preliminary list of names is as follows:

Li Feng, Director, Liaoning Public Security Department
Zhuang Min, Deputy Director, Liaoning Public Security Department
Lu Hongming, Deputy Director, Liaoning Public Security Department
Hao Wanxiao, Secretary of Discipline Committee, Liaoning

List of practitioners who were persecuted to death (including only those whose cases have been verified):

Bai Xiuhua (40, Acheng) Ju Yajun (33, Acheng) Li Hongbin (Acheng)
Wang, Shufang (49, Acheng) Li Ping (33, Anda) Gao Hua (31, Baiquan)
Jiao Zhensheng (66, Baiquan) Deng Weinan (26, Bayan) Lin Limei (30, Boli)
Yan Xiuzhong (52, Boli) Chen Qiulan (Daqing) Cui Xiaojuan (40, Daqing)
He, Huajiang (45, Daqing) Li Baoshui (39, Daqing) Li Xiaorong (41, Daqing)
Lu Xiuyun (53, Daqing) Niu, Huaiyi (Daqing) Shang Guangshen (Zhaoyuan)
Wang Bin (47, Daqing) Wang Shuqin (63, Daqing) Ye Xiufeng (65, Daqing)
Zhang Tieyan (29, Daqing) Zhang Weixin (44, Daqing) Zheng Wenqin (Daqing)
Bi, Yunping (Haerbin) He Jun (28, Haerbin) Kong Deyi (38, Haerbin)
Liang, Jianhua (59, Haerbin) Lu Liangui (48, Haerbin) Meng Xianzhi (54, Haerbin)
Ren Pengwu (33, Haerbin) Wang Xiuying (45 , Haerbin) Wang, Honggang (Haerbin)
Wang, Youcheng (40, Haerbin) Wu Qingxiang (50, Haerbin) Yu Zhengyi (28, Haerbin)
Jia Yongfa (35, Hebei) Deng Xiangyun (39, Hegang) Sun Shuqin (58, Hegang)
Sun Yalan (Hegang) Zhang Yuzhen (46, Hegang) Zhang Zhenfu (58, Hegang)
Zhao Guoxin (41, Hegang) Sun Jihong (Huanan) Chen Ying (17, Jiamusi)
Fang Cuifang (40, Jiamusi) Li, Fenghua (44, Jiamusi) Tang Hong (37, Jiamusi)
Wang Shujun (48, Jiamusi) Zhang Fu (32, Jiamusi) Yu, Guanyun (61, Haerbin)
Zhao Fulan (59, Jiamusi) Liu Guihua (Jidong) Jiang, Rongzhen (42, Jixi)
Li Xiuqing (60, Jixi) Zhao Bin (34, Jixi) Zhao Dong (38, Jixi)
Liu, Guiying (43, Mishan) Zhang Yulan (55, Mishan) Cui Shengyi (54, Mudanjiang)
Li, Hongmin (55, Mudanjiang) Wang Xiaozong (36, Mudanjiang) Wang BaoXian (Qiqihaer)
Zhang Tao (53, Shuangchen) Jiang, Liguo (52, Shuangcheng) Wang Jinguo (34, Shuangcheng)
Wu Baowang (36, Shuangcheng) Zang Dianlong (38, Shuangcheng) Zhang Shengfan (38, Shuangcheng)
Zhao Yayun (54, Shuangcheng) Zhou Zhichang (45, Shuangcheng) Wu Lingxia (37, Shuangyashan)
Liu, Xiwen (60, Suihua) Zhang Xiaochun (43, Suihua) Liu, Jinshan (56, Shuangyashan)
Yang Zhonghai (33, Suiling) Gao Feng (31, Wuchang) Zhang Yanchao (Wuchang)
Yang wenhua (48, Yanshou) Lu Chenglin (37, Yichun) Yu Shuqin (Yilan)
Zhang Min (Yilan) Liu Xiaoling (37, Zhaodong) Li Wenrui (37, Haerbin)

Fang LiHong (37, Anshan) Kou Xiaoping (40, Anshan) Yuan Zhongyu (49, Anshan)
Zhang Li (Anshan) Hu Xiuying (Beining) Qiu Zhiyan (35, Benxi)
Mi Zhongsheng (33, Buxin) Jiang XX (Buxin) Yang Hongyan (42, Buxin)
Li Hongwei (Chaoyang) Yu Xiuling (32, Chaoyang) Chen Jiafu (41, Dalian)
Chen Yong (34, Dalian) Chen Zhenli (Dalian) Chi Yulian (44, Dalian)
Dong Yongwei (52, Dalian) Li Xiumei (58, Dalian) Liu Yonglai (36, Dalian)
Wang Qiuxia (48, Dalian) Wang Youju (64, Dalian) Yu Lixin (27, dalian)
Zeng Xianmei (63, Dalian) Zheng Wei (Dalian) Zou Wenzhi (54, Dalian)
Li Yanhua (65, Dashiqiao) Chen Sulan (53, Fushun) Han, Fuxiang (66, FuShun)
Liang Suyun (37, Fushun) Wei, Zaixin (63, Fushun) Wu Zhanrui (Fushun)
Zhong Yuxiu (27, Fushun) Zhou Yuling (Fushun) Jin Lifeng (41, Huludao)
Li Shuyuan (51, Huludao) Liu Liyun (44, Huludao) Wang Huachen (32, Huludao)
Cao Shufang (61, Jinzhou) Du Baolan (48, Jinzhou) Liu Zhi (61, Jinzhou)
Zhu Shaolan (50, Jinzhou) Liu Wenping (43, Liaohe) Guo Shuyan (38, Liaoyang)
Wang Hong (39, Liaozhong) Wang Le (28, Lingyuan) Qi Jinsheng (25, Panjin)
Song Xiangzhen (46, Shengyang) Sun Hongyan (36, Shengyang) Zong Hengjie (34, Shengyang)
Miao Qisheng (36, Shenyang) Wang Ling (39, Shenyang) Chen Dewen (Suizhong)
Wang, Jingyi (56, Wafangdian) Tang Tierong (Xinbin) Wang Lixia (46, Zhaoyang)
Shao Shisheng (58, Zhuanghe) Sun Lianxia (50, Dalian) Zou Guirong (36, Fushun)

Wang Tiesong (32, Antu) Dong Guijie (Baicheng) Yu Qiushi (64, Zhenlai)
Wu Lianjie (Baicheng) Gao Ya (Changchun) Hou Xiuping (35, Changchun)
Jin Junjie (29, Changchun) Li Jin (25, Changchun) Liu Lei (Changchun)
Liu Yi (34, Changchun) Shen Jianli (34, Changchun) Wang Kefei (35, Changchun)
Yang Yan (62, Changchun) Yang, Guiqin (43, Changchun) Yin Shuyun (46, Changchun)
Zhang Wenya (35, Changchun) Zhang Yuanming (42, Changchun) Lu Xihua (35, Dehui)
Wang, Hongtian (36, Dehui) Zhi Guixiang (31, Gongzhuling) Wang, Xiuyun (47, Huadian)
Cui Jianguo (36, Jilin) Fu Chunsheng (51, Jilin) Hou Zhanhai (Jilin)
Li Zaiji (44, Jilin) Lu Shuqiu (Jilin) Qu Junli (28, Jilin)
Wang Lixin (32, Jilin) Wang Xiulan (50, Jilin) Sun Youfa (24, Lishu)
Xiao Jinsong (35, Jilin) Yu Lixin (36, Jilin) Zhao Jing (19, Jilin)
Zheng Junshu (24, Jilin) Sun Shiwen (40, Jiutai) Liu Jiankun (31, Liaoyuan)
Liu Yucai (60, Panshi) Chu Congrui (19, Shulan) Wang Yan (55, Changchun)
Sun Jianhua (34, Shulan) Tong Zhentian (22, Shulan) Wang Guoping (40, Shulan)
Wang Shuquan (30, Shulan) Dai Chunhua (33, Siping) Yu Wenjiang (56, Siping)
Li Xifang (58, Tonghua) Liu Hong (Yanji) Piao Shigao (63, Yanji)
Wan Xiufang (36, Yongji) Han Yuzhu (47, Yushu) Huang, Baochen (65, Yushu)
Wang Xianyou (Yushu) Yue Kai (29, Yushu)

Yu Lianchun (49, Dezhou) Wang Huaiying (58, Heze) Xu Zengliang (29, Jiaonan)
Liu Jian (33, Jinan) Shang Qingling (38, Laiwu) Cui Dezhen (33, Laixi)
Li Mei (33, Laiyang) Xia Shucai (63, Laiyang) Qi Fengqin (43, Liaocheng)
Wang, Fengwei (40, Liaocheng) Zhang Zhenzhong (22, Liaocheng) Sun, Xiucai (50, Linqing)
Dong Buyun (36, Linyi) Wang Jinlong (34, Linyi) Wang Xinglei (35, Linyi)
Tian Xiangcui (61, Longkou) Ms. Shi (21, Mengyin) Zhang Qingmei (35, ningyang)
Shi, Hongjie (Laixi) Li Jingdong (41, Pingdu) Zhang Fuzhen (38, Pingdu)
Liu Chun (28, Qingdao) Liu Jiming (61, Qingdao) Wang Suqin (70, Qingdao)
Wang Xiaoli (36, Qingdao) Zhao Yuezhen (48, Qingdao) Zou Songtao (28, Qingdao)
Cao Guifen (61, Weifang) Chen Zixiu (59, Weifang) Guo Ping (27, Weifang)
Li Guojun (37, Weifang) Li Huixi (40, Weifang) Li Xianglan (49, Weifang)
Li Yinping (37, Weifang) Liu Shuchun (38, Weifang) Liu Zengqiang (22, Weifang)
Lou Aiqing (34, Weifang) Ma Yanfang (33, Weifang) Meng Qingxi (43, Weifang)
Su Baolan (Weifang) Sun Xiaobo (36, Weifang) Wang Aijuan (43, Weifang)
Wang Lanxiang (60, Weifang) Wang Peisheng (68, Weifang) Wang Wuke (25, Weifang)
Wang Xiujuan (33, Weifang) Wang Yixin (61, Weifang) Wu Jingxia (29, Weifang)
Xu Bing (33, Weifang) Xuan Chengxi (61, Weifang) Yang Guizhen (40, Weifang)
Yang Weidong (54, Weifang) Zhang Zhiyou (45, Weifang) Zhao Fenghua (53, Weifang)
Zheng Fangying (54, Weifang) Zhou Chunmei (62, Weifang) Liu Yufeng (64, Wendeng)
Chen Guibin (35, Wucheng) Han Shengli (58, Xintai) Cong Yu e (53, Yantai)
Ren Tingling (51, Yantai) Wang Lixuan (27, Yantai) Wu Haiyou (Yantai)|
Yang Fengbin (45, Yantai) Gao Mei (30, Yishui) Wang Yongdong (35, Yishui)|
Jiang Liying (Zhaoyuan) Sun Shaomei (37, Zhaoyuan) Zhang Lin (53, Zhaoyuan)
Zhao Jinhua (42, Zhaoyuan) Su Gang (32, Zibo) Zhang Guohua (24, Zibo)
Liu Xuguo (29, Zoucheng)

Zhang Jianxun (64, Anping) Feng Guoguang (44, Baoding) Liu Dongxue (43, Baoding)
Rong Fengxian (34, Baoding) Tai Yurong (36, Baoding) Zhan Jinyan (25, Baoding)
Liu Qiusheng (40, Bucheng) Wei Chaozong (40, Cangzhou) Yang Mei (23, Cangzhou)
Lu Zhaofeng (39, Daming) Liu, Baoyuan (33, Dingxing) Xing, Xiuqin (61, Zhuozhou)
Liu, Deyi (45, Fengnan) Chen Yuqing (61, Handan) Liu Huanqing (58, Handan)
Xun Ruilin (Handan) Zhai Liansheng (60, Handan) Zhang Xiuling (Handan)
Zhou Zhenjie (68, Handan) Gu Yalou (31, Hejian) An Xiukun (49, Hengshui)
Xiao Xingai (39, Hengshui) Yang Guibao (56, Huailai) Song, Xingguo (29, Huanghua)
Liu Lianyi (54, Jingxian) Wu Yanshui (55, Laishui) Zhang Yiqin (Laiyuan)
Cui Yulan (Langfang) Wang Jinling (53, Mancheng) Zhang Zhigeng (Zhangjiakou)
Chen Yanying (35, Ningjin) Wang Xingtian (44, Ningjin) Liu Shusong (28, pinggu)
Liu, Erzeng (40, PingShan) Kang, Ruizhu (52, PngShan) Hu Hexiang (Qinhuangdao)
Zhang Zhibin (34, Qinhuangdao) Zhu Yourong (45, Qinhuangdao) Liu Dongfen (52, Renxian)
Ren Mengjun (56, Shahe) Pi Jinghui (55, Shanhaiguan) Liu, Fuse (67, Shenzhou)
Ding Gangzi (47, Shijiazhuang) Ding Yan (32, Shijiazhuang) Ding, Lihong (36, Shijiazhuang)
Liu Rongxiu (55, Shijiazhuang) Lan Hongyu (35, Zunhua) Tao Hongsheng (46, Shijiazhuang)
Zhao Fengnian (48, Shijiazhuang) Zuo Zhigang (33, shijiazhuang) Wei, Laihe (Tangshan)
Dou Hejun (Weixian) Gu Chenhai (46, Xiahuayuan) Li Zhishui (59, Xinji)
Cao Fazhen (56, Yuanshi) Chen Aizhong (33, Zhangjiakou) Jiang Shuhua (50, Zhangjiakou)
Song Cuiling (52, Zhangjiakou) Wang Ailing (51, Zhangjiakou)

Beijing, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Guangdong, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Tianjin, Guanxi, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Yunnan, Zhejiang

Guan Lin Li Yuhua Practitioner (22) Liu Guimin (35, Miyun)
Wang Chan (39) Zhao Xin (32, Beijing) Li Shouqiang (37, Chaoyang)
Mei Yulan (44, Chaoyang) Liu Zhilan (40, Fangshan) Gong Baohua (35, Pinggu)
Zhang Shuqi (52, Xicheng)

Ren Jinhuan (28, Fangxian) Gui Xunhua (38, Huangmei) Chen Xiang (55, Huangshi)
Song Wanxue (48, Huangshi) He Xingzong (55, Macheng) Huang Jianyong (23, Macheng)
Li Jiju (37, Macheng) Li Xuechun (63, Macheng) Luo Kaijun (55, Macheng)
Wang Huajun (35, Macheng) Chen Caixia (40, Shiyan) Zhan Wei (31, Yingcheng)
Ding Wen (32, Shiyan) Zeng Xiane (36, Shiyan) Wu Mingfang (36, Suizhou)
Cai Mingtao (27, Wuhan) Fu Xiaoyun (53, Wuhan) Li Changjun (33, Wuhan)
Li Yingxiu (52, wuhan) Peng Min (30, Wuhan) Peng Shunan (53, Wuhan)
Tian Baozhen (42, Wuhan) Wang Haoyun (Wuhan) Mei, Zhongquan (61, Wuxue)
Zhao, Zichu (51, WuXue) Qiu Pingan (54, Xiangfan) Zhao Yingfeng (65, Xiangfan)
Shen, Deming (Xiantao) Zhang Aijiao (39, Xiantao) Hu Youliang (48, Xishui)
Nan Chuyin (53, Xishui) Song Huaping (43, Yingcheng)

Fang Xianzhi (61, Chengdu) He Zhenyue (35, Chengdu) Wang Xuezhi (30, Chengdu)
Wu Dabi (57, Chengdu) Xu Zhilian (31, Chengdu) Zhang Chuansheng (54, Chengdu)
Zhou Yong (34, chengdu) Liu Zhifen (63, Chongzhou) Miao Qun (28, Dazhou)
Guo, Qirong (59, Emei) Li Xinqi (60, GuangAn) Tan Sufen (58, Guanghan)
Zhang Zhuo (32, Leshan) Yang Wenhui (40, Miyi) Sun, Yongde (45, Neijiang)
Tang, Jianping (27, Neijiang) Gu, Xingzhi (64, Pangzhihua) Que, Fazhi (49, Panzhihua)
Zhao Qiying (34, Panzhihua) Luo Shaoxiang (36, Pengzhou) Wang Zhiying (Pengzhou)
Xue Yuzhen (53, Qionglai) Liao Chaoqi (57, Qiongxia) Liu Xianju (63, Quxian)
Wang Yongru (63, Quxian) Wang Yuru (60, Quxian) Su Qionghua (32, Suining)
Tian Shiqiang (32, Suining) Zhang Guangqing (60, Wanyuan) Yu Bixing (50, Wenjiang)
Hu, Hongyue (45, Xindu) Li Zetao (22) Mo Shuijin (65) Pu Xinjiang (53)
Wang Jiqin (29) Xiao Chengrui (52) Zhou Chenyu (45) Liu Chunshu (44, Banan)
Yu Xiangmei (35, Changshou) Zhang Sufang (Changshou) Hu Mingquan (63, Jiangbei)
Li Guihua (47, Jiangbei) Xia Wei (43, Jiangbei) Zeng Fanshu (56, Jiangjin)
Zhang Fangliang (47, Rongchang) Long, Gang (33, Tongliang) Li Lanying (Tongnan)

Hou, Youfang (48, Jinchang) Geng Cuifang (48, Lanzhou) Ouyang, Wei (32, LanZhou)
Wan Guifu (57, Lanzhou) Yao Baorong (52, Lanzhou) Yi Yongjiang (37, Lanzhou)
Yuan Jiang (29, Lanzhou) Zhang Fengyun (42, Lanzhou) Huang Zhiyi (60, Longxi)
Li Faming (52, Longxi) Liu Junming (32, Longxi) Cheng, Guilan (73, Tianshui)
Wang Shenggui (35, Tianshui) Dong, Jinlan (38, Wuwei) Huang Xinjin (43, Wuwei)
Liu Lanxiang (40, Wuwei) Song Yanzhao (31, Wuwei)

Lai Zhijun (50, Dongguan) Chen Liwen (63, Gaozhou) Huang Yaoying (68, Gaozhou)
Chen Chengyong (35, Guangzhou) Gao Xianmin (41, Guangzhou) Hao Runjuan (28, Guangzhou)
Li Xiaojing (33, Guangzhou) Liu Shaobo (Guangzhou) Rao Zhuoyuan (33, Guangzhou)
Yang, Xueqin (65, Guangzhou) Zhu Derong (Guangzhou) Zeng Yuwen (25, Heyuan)
Huang Weijun (50, Jieyang) Wu Jinfang (51, Jieyang)

Ou Keshun (Changde) Gu Jiahong (27, Changsha) Zuo Shuchun (25, Changsha)
Liu Shiyou (72, Hengyang) Pei Ouhua (61, Hengyang) Wang Yijia (45, Hengyang)
Chen, Ouxiang (43, Pingjiang) Guan Chaosheng (56, Qidong) Kuang Su E (Qidong)
Jiang Laisheng (63, Qiyang) Cao Jianzhen (Yuanjiang

Guo Xiumei (45, Huaiyang) Bai Aixiang (42, Jiaozuo) Du Xu (35, Nanyang)
Xiao Jiayong (34, Nanyang) Shang Shuichi (50, Yuzhou) Li Jian (34, Zhengyang)
Dai Xiaojing (61, Zhengzhou) Shan Yongshun (56, Zhengzhou) Zhu, Gaidi (ZhengZhou)
Wang Gaizhi (47, Zhenping) Zhao, Dexiu (Xinyang)

Mother of Fu Xiaojuan (56, GaoAn) Li Jingchun (46, Jiujiang) Zhang Maoxing (50, Jiujiang)
Hu Qingyun (50, Nanchang) Jin Zunyi (25, Nanchang) Li Yanhua (45, Nanchang)
Liu Fengchun (56, Nanchang) Wan Xin (28, Nanchang) Chen Jianning (31, Wuning)

Feng Peizhi (60, Changzhi) Song Yongjun (30, Daixian) Wu Cuiying (Datong)
Zhang Zhongjie (Linfen) Zhao Dongmei (28, Linfen) Cui Aiyuan (42, Taiyuan)
Gao Lijun (42, Taiyuan) Song Yuying (63, Taiyuan) Yang Qingmin (33, Taiyuan)

Li Jun (30, Hefei) Li Mei (28, Hefei) Zhang Duoyun (73, Hefei)
Zhang Guiqin (37, Hefei) Wu Qingbin (37, Huainan) Xie Guiying (32, Huainan)

Chen Biyu (51, Fuzhou) Yang Ruiyu (38, Fuzhou) Dai Xiangguang (29, Putian)
Sun Ruijian (29, Ningde) Xiao Yanglong (32, Pingtan)

Zhou Fenglin (32, Changzhou) Ge Xiulan (51, Huaian) Zhang Zhenggang (36, Huaian)
Huang Hanchong (39, qidong) Liao Qinying (33, Wujin) Zhang Wannian (71, Yandu)

Xu Guangdao Ye Fenglin (45, Bijie) Yang Yi (38, Fuquan)
Xie Nengyang (51, Guiyang)

Chai Yong (29, Changji) Zhou, Yurong (39, Tacheng) Zhu Hua (30, Wulumuqi)

Li Baifan (42) Li Jianbin (23, Shanghai) Yang Xueqin (36, Shanghai)

Sun Guilan (Baoji) Yan, Huiqin (60, Huxian)

Chen Baoliang (63) Ms. Zhang (49, Tanggu)

Wang Rencheng (35, Qinzhou)

Zhuang Guangxin (21, Qionghai)

Wang Yaxuan (53, chifeng) Yu, Xiulan (60, Eqi)

Lu Hongfeng (Lingwu)

Fan Lihong (29)

Kong Qinghuang (33, Jianshui)

Shi Bei (49, Fuyang)

Wei Zaixin, male, 63 years old, was a senior engineer at the School of Advanced Technological Studies in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa, police at Jiangjun Detention Center in Fushun City tortured him in June 2002 to the point of near death, unable to respond to medical treatment. He died on November 15, 2002.

On February 7, 2002, Wei was abducted and beaten by police from the Liangzhan Street Police Station when he went to the home of another practitioner. He was sent to the Wujiabao Forced Re-education Camp's "intensive" class.

In June 2002, Wei Zaixin was sent to the No.2 Detention Center in Shizilou, Jiangjun District by the police at the Jiangjun Police Station in Fushun City to await his sentence. During this time, the police at the detention center instigated criminal inmates to torture him mentally and physically to the point of near death. In July, the Public Security Department sent Wei Zaixin to the city hospital and notified his family members to bring him home. On November 15, Wei Zaixin stopped responding to medical treatment and died.

From the photos taken while Wei was in the hospital, it is clear that Wei was already in a comatose state at the time. Doctors performed force feeding through his nose, intravenous injection, and catheterization to sustain his life. Both of his legs were severely swollen, and there was extensive skin ulceration on both his abdominal area and thighs. People close to the sources said that while Wei was detained at the Wujiabao Forced Re-education Camp, the authorities refused to allow his family to visit him or send him clothing because he held on to his belief.

Area Code for Fushun City: 413
Jiangjun Detention Center in Fushun City
Jiangjun Police Station
40 Jincheng Road West
Tel.: 770-6902

The School of Advanced Technological Studies in Fushun City
1 Danfeng Jie, Fushun City
Tel.: 243-4606

Fushun Forced Re-education Camp - Fushun Wujiabao Forced Re-education Camp
Huang Wei, Director: 463-9021 (O), 243-8038(H) 198-4130-3333, Pager: 135-0423-5333(M)
Xu Jie, Director: 463-9082(O), 262-6111(H), 137-0493-8433(M)
Yu Changchun, Section Chief of Education: 463-0621--8601(O), 764-3979(H), 135-0423-4174(M)
Wang Zhiwei, Section Chief of Administration: 261-1163(H), 96088 x279 (Pager)

Case II

Wang Shuqin, female, 63 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wolitun Daqing City. On September 21, 2002, she was tortured to death at the Daqing City Detention Center.

Ms. Wang Shuqin was illegally arrested and detained many times. At the Shuanghe Labor Camp in Qiqihar City, she was severely tortured. In the fall of 2001, she was released unconditionally. On January 15, 2001, Wang Shuqin and her husband were both arrested. She was released following a 28-day hunger strike. On July 24, 2002, she and her husband were again arrested. She was held at the Wolitun Station until she was tortured to death.

Area code for Daqing City, Heilongjiang: 459
Bai Yunshan, Director of the Daqing City Detention Center: 13091689383 (M)
Daqing City Detention Center: 4616163

Yang Mei, female, 23 years old, was a resident of Cangzhou City in Hebei Province.

Yang was illegally arrested and incarcerated in the spring or summer of 2001 for distributing Falun Gong flyers. She was detained at the No. 2 Detention Center in Cangzhou and was tortured to death in police custody on October 20, 2001.

Yang was an employee at a local bank and lived in the Shuizhuan residences. The police at the detention center forced her to work long hours without any rest. She was forced to write a statement of guarantee to renounce Falun Gong. For refusing, she was tied onto a metal bed for several days and nights, handcuffed and with both legs shackled. Yang Mei began a hunger strike on October 10 to protest. After being force-fed through the nose in the afternoon of October 19, she died suddenly at approximately 6 a.m. on October 20.

When Yang's parents went to visit her on that morning, the guard refused to let them see her. The municipal Party Committee and the Public Security Department of Cangzhou directly intervened after her death and strictly blocked the news.

Public Security Department: 2026851
No. 2 Detention Center: 2062329
Cai Hua, Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee of Cangzhou: 2022070, 2023196
National Security Department: 2030710
Justice Department: 2026414 2100634
Municipal Court: 3042231 3041694 (fax)
Procuratorate: 2018849
Song Jinsheng, Duputy Director of Cangzhou Public Security Department (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong): Tel.: 2026851, 2026852
Jia Dehua, Director of Cangzhou 620 Office, Tel.: 2026851, 2026852

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION

Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and others in the designated class of injured parties similarly situated, complain and allege as follows:

I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

1. This is a civil action for compensatory and punitive damages for torts committed in

violation of international and domestic law, that is instituted pursuant to specific statutory authorization, namely the Alien Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. í 1350) and the Torture Victims Protection Act (106 Stat. 73 (1992)), as detailed below. Plaintiffs in this action include three individually identified residents of the People's Republic of China or refugees from that country now living in different nations around the world, including the United States. All were subjected to torture, genocide, and other major human rights abuses as current residents and citizens of the Peoples' Republic of China, together with their immediately affected family members, or as visitors to that country, as well as all others who are similarly situated or affected. All these Plaintiffs are practitioners of the Falun Gong who, while residents of the People's Republic of China or present in that jurisdiction and thereby subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the Defendant JIANG, as Chair of the People's Republic of China, of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and of the Central Military Committee of the People's Republic of China, as well as to the jurisdiction and authority of the Falun Gong Control Office (Office 6/10). All have suffered and been threatened with the most severe forms of persecution and abuse violating their fundamental human rights, at the hands of, and with the concurrence, support and supervision of the named Defendants acting in their official and quasi-official capacities. Individual plaintiffs also include U.S. citizens or alien residents of the U.S. who were purposefully, intentionally, subjected to discrimination based on their belief in the spiritual practice of Falun Gong and their co-extensive attempt to protest peacefully the persecution of Falun Gong in China during Defendant JIANG's visit to Iceland in June of 2002. All of these suffered discrimination and violations of their fundamental human rights, at the hands of, and with the concurrence, support and supervision of the named Defendants acting in their official and quasi-official capacities.

2. This action is instituted against Defendant JIANG Zemin, and the office that he helped to establish to organize and carry a systematic campaign of persecution, torture, and genocide against Falun Gong. Defendant JIANG is presently serving, since March of 1993, as Chair of the People's Republic of China and Chair of the Central Military Committee of the People's Republic of China. Since September 1997, JIANG also has served as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of the People's Republic of China. In these capacities, and since June of 1999, the Defendant has designed, ordered, implemented and directed a program of eliminating the practice of Falun Gong in China. Defendant JIANG's actions resulted in selective murder, disappearance, widespread torture and genocide against thousands of practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrest and detention without trial of thousands.

3. On June 10, 1999, Defendant JIANG officially established and authorized the clandestine and illegal operation of the Falun Gong Control Office, a subdivision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which since its inception has been the only political party in China. The Falun Gong Control Office is also referred to in China as "Office 6/10," to commemorate the date of its official creation (June 10, 1999). Both Defendant JIANG and Defendant Office 6/10 have played key architectural roles in the suppression of the spiritual practices of Falun Gong in China. By their consistent and thoroughgoing policy, and extensively and brutally applied and officially mandated, albeit unlawful, campaign of persecution against Falun Gong, they have ordered and authorized the arrest, detention, torture, and arbitrary execution of persons who refuse to renounce their spiritual belief in and practice of Falun Gong, as well as those who demonstrated peacefully and publicly against these acts of repression, irrespective of their spiritual beliefs. While technically not a government agency, Office 6/10, as a practical matter, has been operating in a quasi-official capacity under Defendant JIANG's illegal mandate, to organize and direct the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong, with the support of, on behalf of, and in furtherance of the goals of Defendant JIANG, and other high ranking officials of the government of China.

II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE

4. This Court has jurisdiction over the claims brought by Plaintiffs by virtue of 28 U.S.C. section 1350, incorporating provisions of the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, which provide for federal jurisdiction and a cause of action "for any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States," as well as for acts of torture committed abroad against either U.S. citizens or citizens of other nations.

5. A separate and additional basis for jurisdiction is 28 U.S.C. í 1343(4), which provides for federal court jurisdiction in situations where damages or equitable or other relief is sought under acts of Congress providing for the protection of civil rights, as well as under 28 U.S.C. í 1331, since this case arises "under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States," and raises significant federal questions under Constitutional provisions, statutes and international treaties ratified by the U.S., including 42 U.S.C. í 1985.

6. In this case, the actions of the Defendants constitute violations of some of the most

deeply held and universally acknowledged human rights that are enshrined in a number of widely ratified international treaties, as well as being firmly accepted parts of customary international law, and jus cogens. These include the right to not be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and deprived of life; the right to not be subjected to torture and genocide; the right to hold and exercise views and beliefs freely and without interference; the right to liberty and security of the person; and the right to associate with others and to practice religious and spiritual beliefs without restriction. The exercise by the Plaintiffs of these internationally recognized human rights, enshrined in both treaty and customary international law, and universally recognized as part of the law of nations, has been seriously and maliciously abridged by the policies and actions of the Defendants and their co-conspirators acting under color of law and in their official and quasi-official capacities, clearly outside the scope of their lawful and legitimate authority. Among the specific human rights treaty standards violated by the Defendant are the Convention Against Torture, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Genocide Convention, and the United Nations Charter. Many of these same standards are embodied in customary international law and in jus cogens, as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each of these standards, and how they have been violated by the actions of the Defendants and their co-conspirators to the detriment and injury of the Plaintiffs, is described and explained in the text of the complaint, below, beginning with paragraph 29. These violations of international law, together with injuries inflicted upon the alien Plaintiffs as a result of these violations, place this legal action within the parameters of the jurisdictional standards spelled out in 28 U.S.C. í 1350 embodying the provisions of the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, as well as in 28 U.S.C. í 1343(4), 28 U.S.C. í 1331, and 42 U.S.C. í 1985.

7. Defendant OFFICE 6/10 was established as a subdivision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party by JIANG Zemin on June 7, 1999, and officially set up by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on June 10, 1999 per JIANG's order. As a subdivision of the ruling party in China, and not itself an official government agency, it acts under color of law and carries out law enforcement operations of a governmental nature. Acting under the command and control of defendant JIANG, chair of the People's Republic of China, the office employs and supervises government officials and other public agencies, such as media communications and law enforcement, to carry out a campaign of murder, torture, terrorism, rape, beatings, and destruction of property against members of Falun Gong and their families. As such, its actions constitute major abuses and violations of a number of international laws and treaties. These violations of international law, together with the injuries inflicted upon the Plaintiffs as a result of these violations, place this legal action against the Defendants within the provisions of the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act.

8. Defendant JIANG and defendant Office 6/10, as represented by defendant JIANG, will be physically present in the United States in October of 2002, availing themselves and their property of the security and sanctuary of the United States and the state of Illinois, engaging in banquets, meetings, and other activities. The fact that the Defendants are neither citizens nor permanent residents of the United States, but that Defendant JIANG, on behalf of himself and as an agent of his political party's Office 6/10, and other senior officers of 6/10 are only temporary visitors in this country does not deprive the Court of jurisdiction. The very nature of the Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victims Protection Act provisions authorizing this type of civil action in federal court recognize that many defendants or potential defendants in these cases, as aliens committing torts abroad that involve violations of international law, will be in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of our federal courts only on a temporary basis. Moreover, among the purposes of Defendant JIANG's visit, as reflected in a banquet and other activities to be held in his honor in Chicago, Illinois, is the furtherance of the goals of Defendant JIANG and the Office 6/10 to carry out their campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. These activities include a discussion of topics relevant to the ban of Falun Gong in China.

9. Venue is properly vested in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois pursuant to the requirements of 28 U.S.C. ^oo 1391 (b) and (d), as a location within the United States where the Defendants and/or their agents will be not only personally located during their current visit to this country, but present as participants in meetings to further their own agenda regarding, inter alia, the ban of Falun Gong in China, and wherein Defendant JIANG, both for himself and as an agent for Office 6/10 can be personally served with process regarding the initiation of this lawsuit pursuant to the requirements of Rules 4 (c)(1), (e), and (h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

10. Jurisdiction over Defendant JIANG, as the designated head-of-state of the People's Republic of China, is authorized and recognized as an exception to the head of state immunity doctrine and to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. í 1602 et seq., by incorporation of the principles of the Convention Against Genocide which excludes from immunity acts of genocide by any and all government officials, including heads of state, and by other international standards that recognize the culpability of heads of state and other government officials for major abuses that violate jus cogens standards of international law, and therefore commit acts which reside beyond the limits of their legitimate and legal authority as head of state. Likewise, the Torture Victims Protection Act covers any and all officials committing torture, whatever their position, whether they are current or former officials. This case is not against the Government of China. Nor is it against any legitimate and lawful act of its officers so as to merit either sovereign immunity or head of state immunity as a defense to this Court's jurisdiction over this action.

III. PARTIES

11. Plaintiffs are members of and represent a designated class of Falun Gong practitioners who have resided in China in the past, or are currently residing in the Peoples' Republic of China. While under the jurisdiction and control of Chinese authorities, they have been subjected to various forms of persecution and abuse, amounting to serious violations of their human rights, that are associated with the policies and actions of the Defendants and other high-level government officials with whom they have conspired, taken in their official and unofficial capacities, aimed at punishing the Plaintiffs for their Falun Gong beliefs and practices, preventing them from engaging in these practices, and eliminating the Falun Gong as a spiritual movement. Individual plaintiffs also include U.S. citizens or alien residents of the U.S. who were purposefully, intentionally, and improperly prevented from boarding and embarking on their flights to Iceland on Icelandair to protest the persecution of Falun Gong in China during Defendant JIANG's visit to that country in June of 2002 because of the practices and policies of the Defendants, in concert with other high ranking officials of the People's Republic of China.

12. Please note that alphabetic designations have been used to substitute for the specific identities of some of the individually named plaintiffs in order to protect them and their families, some of whom remain within the jurisdiction of China, from reprisal. For these Plaintiffs, a very real and substantial risk exists that the Defendants would seek to inflict punishment or coercion on the Plaintiffs and/or their families as a result of their filing this lawsuit and bringing public exposure and criticism to the Defendants' policies and practices regarding the intimidation of Falun Gong practitioners, and their efforts to exterminate all persons who refuse to relinquish their belief in and practice of Falun Gong. The identities of some of the individual Plaintiffs providing notarized or witnessed affidavits prepared for this complaint have been redacted from the documents that will be available to the Court per request. A motion for the Court to authorize withholding of the specific identities of the individual Plaintiffs in the text of the complaint, and in their attached affidavits, will be filed soon after the filing of this complaint. Counsel for Plaintiffs would be pleased to provide the Court any additional identifying information that may be needed, including unredacted copies of the Plaintiffs'statements, so long as the identities of the Plaintiffs are not made known to the Defendants, or made accessible to any other officials or agencies in the People's Republic of China responsible for the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong, through any other means.

13. Plaintiff A, male aged 39, is a U.S. citizen residing in the state of Pennsylvania. He is bringing this complaint on behalf of his deceased brother John Doe, male aged 40, who was a citizen of China and who resided in the City of Shanghai in Shanghai Province. In March, 2000, while he was a visitor to the City of Beijing in Beijing Province Plaintiff A's brother was arrested by police and incarcerated along with other Falun Gong practitioners in the Qingdong State Farm, a prison camp, in the City of Shanghai. After having been incarcerated for more than one year, Plaintiff A's brother died from physical injuries, between the dates of April 1 and April 14, 2001. Plaintiff A's parents identified his body on the evening of April 14, 2001. The reason for Plaintiff A's brother's arrest, detention, mistreatment and wrongful death due to abuse in police custody is due to his belief in and practice of Falun Gong and his refusal to renounce his personal belief in Falun Gong.

14. Plaintiff B, is a male aged 31, who currently resides as a resident alien outside of China. He is a graduate student at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He is a citizen of China whose home is in the City of Changchun. He was a visitor to the City of Beijing in Beijing Province beginning in December 1999 during Christmas holiday. When he went to the Office of Appeals in Beijing to lawfully present his views in support of Falun Gong, the police arrested him and escorted him along with other detainees to the police bureau in the City of Changchun. Police confiscated his passport and did not allow him to return to Ireland to continue his studies.

During March 2000, Plaintiff B returned as a visitor to the City of Beijing. On May 13, 2000, police arrested him from the school dormitory of a friend whom he was visiting. Police detained him for more than one month at Haidian Detention Center in Beijing during which time inmates, at the direction of police, physically abused him, forcefully holding him down and force feeding him with liquids. This dangerous mistreatment caused the death of another Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Yulan Mei, when she was held in another Beijing detention center.

After more than a month's detainment in the Haidian Detention Center, police detained and incarcerated Plaintiff B in the Tuan He Labor Camp in the City of Beijing for 22 months without the appointment of legal counsel, without a formal trial, without notice of grounds of and for his arrest, without any other due process rights afforded him by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. During this period of detention, Plaintiff B was badly beaten and tortured by police on multiple occasions. In one instance, Plaintiff B was tied down on a wooden bed frame and shocked simultaneously with six electric batons, each transferring over 10,000 volts, causing severe pain, spasms and mental suffering. The reason for Plaintiff B's repeated arrest, detention and torture is his belief in and practice of Falun Gong and his refusal to renounce his personal belief in Falun Gong.

15. Plaintiff C, a female, aged 47, citizen of China currently residing outside China. On July 26, 2000, Plaintiff C traveled to Beijing as a visitor. On July 29, plain clothes police identified her as a Falun Gong practitioner, arrested her and detained her in the Liaison Office of Liaoning Province in Beijing. On July 30, Police escorted her back to Liaoning Province and detained her in the Longshan Detention Center in Shengyang City. In Longshan Detention Center, police beat and tortured her with electric batons on numerous occasions and also force-fed her on numerous occasions causing severe pain and harm. (Forced feeding caused internal bleeding and nearly caused asphyxiation on different occasions.) She was also beaten and force-fed in Dabei Prison. On September 25, 2000, she was moved to the notorious Massanjia Labor Camp in Liaoning Province and imprisoned. In the Massanjia Labor Camp, she experienced repeated and increased physical torture as well as continued forced feeding, often tortured by six people simultaneously. Prison guards and inmates, under direct pressure from higher authorities beat and tortured her day and night, causing injuries, and verbally threatened to kill her if she did not renounce her belief in Falun Gong. This treatment lasted for seven months.On April 19, 2001 police moved her and nine other Falun Gong practitioners to the Shenyan Zhangshi Labor Camp, where she was imprisoned and not allowed to sleep for weeks at a time. On May 10, 2001 police moved her to the Shenxin Labor Camp. She was again tortured and force-fed, and her life was verbally threatened. She again sustained physical injuries and vomited blood for three days. Shortly thereafter, authorities at the Shenxin Labor Camp released her anticipating that she would die and that they would be held accountable for her death. Plaintiff C is now attempting to gain refugee status to take up residence in Europe or the United States.

16. Plaintiff D, a female aged 53, currently resides as a resident alien outside of China. She was a citizen and resident of the City of Da Lian in Liao Ning Province of the Peoples' Republic of China through the latter part of 2000, during the period that the Defendants directed and implemented the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong in Liao Ning Province and elsewhere in China. She was arrested and detained for long periods on two occasions during this period of time in 1999 and again in 2000, and subjected to torture while in detention. The reason for her arrests, detentions and tortures was her participation in the Falun Gong spiritual movement, and her belief and practice in Falun Gong related associations, observances and activities.

17. Plaintiff E is a female who currently resides as a resident alien outside of China. She is bringing this complaint on behalf of herself and her parent, who currently resides in Liao Ning Province in China and is incarcerated in a prison labor camp in that Province. Plaintiff B's parent was arrested twice, first in 2000 and again in 2001. Her parent was detained for an extended period in 2000, and currently remains in detention and subject to a prison sentence as a result of her Falun Gong beliefs and activities. Her Parent currently is incarcerated in Masanjia Labor Camp in Liao Ning Province, a prison facility with a reputation for particular brutality. In that facility, in October, 2000, 18 female Falun Gong practitioners were stripped and thrown into a male prisoners' cell. During their stay in Masanjia Labor Camp Plaintiff B's parent has been subjected to physical abuse, torture and highly degrading treatment and punishment, including arbitrary, long-term detention and deprivation of liberty and security of the person because of her spiritual beliefs and her association with the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

18. Plaintiff F is a 39 year old male and former resident of a municipality in Liao Ning Province now residing as a refugee outside of China. He was arrested, detained for a number of days and beaten brutally by the police with chains and an electric baton when he went to Beijing in 1999 to support Falun Gong practitioners and protest their repression. In April, 2000 he was arrested a second time in Liao Ning Province. He was again brutally beaten to unconsciousness, with blood coming down though his mouth and nose, and his foot badly mangled. While in detention for an extended period of times he was beaten and tortured repeatedly, including being hung up on water pipes for three days.

19. Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the individual plaintiffs identified above are joined in this complaint by other members of the class of adversely affected individuals whom they represent, namely past or present residents of the Peoples' Republic of China, or visitors to that country, during the periods that the Defendant JIANG designed, ordered, implemented and supervised the persecution of Falun Gong in China, both nationally and locally, through the illegal activities of Office 6/10. Defendant JIANG in concert with other high ranking officials of the Office 6/10, continues to monitor and control the 6/10 Office which is itself in charge of carrying out the persecution and repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and its practitioners since June 1999. Also of relevance herein in the fact that Defendant JIANG exercised supervisory authority over the operations of Office 6/10, as the Chairman of the People's Republic of China, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Military of the People's Republic of China, and Secretary General of the Communist Party's Central Planning Committee, the three most powerful political positions in China, during the entire period that the campaign of illegal persecution of Falun Gong has occurred. Plaintiffs, individually and as members of the class they represent, are practitioners or believers in the Falun Gong spiritual movement, who, because of those beliefs and associations have either been subjected to grave abuses of their internationally recognized human rights - including arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, torture, genocide, and deprivation of life, liberty, or security of the person - or have been threatened with such violations, through the actions of Defendant JIANG, other high level government officials, and Defendant Office 6/10, with whom Defendant JIANG has conspired to carry out these acts and objectives.

20. Other members of the class of adversely affected individuals have been joined through this class action, pursuant to the requirements of Rule 23(a), because the class is too numerous to permit joinder of all members, there are questions of law and fact common to the class, the claims of the representative parties are typical of the claims of the class, and the representatives parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class. Moreover, pursuant to the requirements of Rule 23(b) separate actions would create a risk of inconsistent adjudications affecting the interests of all members of the class, and the nature of the circumstances is such that there are common questions of law and fact that predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, making a class action the appropriate method for adjudicating the issues presented. In addition, the physical location and circumstances of many members of the class, namely their being located in China, and the fact that many of them currently are being held in arbitrary and unlawful detention in China, as well as the threat to their and their families' safety associated with identifying them as individual plaintiffs, renders their joinder as individual and named plaintiffs inappropriate and impractical if not impossible.

21. Plaintiff Wei Ye, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, currently is a resident alien living in the U.S. in Chicago, Illinois. On June 11, 2002, he, along with two other colleagues who practice Falun Gong, arrived at the Minneapolis Airport at approximately 6:00 p.m. in order to board a flight to Iceland on Icelandair flight number FI652, for which he had purchased a ticket and held reservations obtained through Orient Express Travel Agency in New York City. He traveled by car to the airport from Chicago, which involved an 8-hour drive. He planned this trip to coincide with the visit to Iceland of President Jiang of China in order to peacefully express his views in opposition to the campaign of persecution against the Falun Gong in China, and to carry out meditation and other spiritual exercises in an effort to experience solidarity with his colleagues in China who were being subjected to abuse, and to lend a spiritual voice in support of positive change. When they arrived at the check-in counter of Icelandair Mr. Ye was informed by Ms. Jessica Ginger, station manager for the Airline, that he and his colleagues were "on the list and not allowed to board the plane." When they asked for an explanation they were shown two letters. The first was from Icelandair and the second was from the Ministry of Justice of Iceland. They indicated that the Ministry of Justice had directed the Airline to refuse passage to Iceland to those on the restricted passenger list during the period around President Jiang's visit to Iceland. Upon information and belief, the "list" was assembled, compiled and circulated for this purpose by Defendants and other officials in China to prevent any protest in outside of China pf the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Mr. Ye stayed in the airport that evening and on the following day again attempted to convince the Airline to honor the ticket they had already sold to him. But again on June 13th, he was not permitted to board the plane. He drove back to Chicago that evening. He again drove back to the Airport in Minneapolis the following day, on June 14, when he heard that some Falun Gong practitioners who had initially been denied passage had subsequently been able to board later flights. Again, he sought to convince the Airline personnel to honor his ticket. But once again, he was denied boarding by the Airline, and was forced to make the 8-hour return trip home for the second time.

22. Plaintiff Hao Wang is a U.S. citizen and a 17 year-old high school student attending Phillips Academy in Andover, near Boston, Massachusetts. In May, 2002, he and his family planned a trip to Iceland to tour the country, and to meet with other Falun Gong practitioners to share and practice their deeply held spiritual beliefs in conjunction with the scheduled visit of the President of China to that country. They purchased tickets on Icelandair flight number FI632 departing on June 10, 2002. The tickets were purchased and the reservations made through Icelandair's on-line travel service at the www.icelandair.com website. When he and his family arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston he was given a letter to sign stating that he was not going to visit Iceland to protest China's treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. As a student of history and a citizen of a democratic country, he was deeply troubled by having to sign this type of "oath" agreeing to surrender his constitutional and human rights in order to be permitted to board an airplane. He considered these demands "un-American," especially the requirement that he reveal what his religious and spiritual beliefs were, and how he planned to practice them. Nevertheless, he signed the statement in order to continue his trip. But the invasiveness did not end there. When he arrived at Customs in Iceland each member of his family as well as other Falun Gong practitioners and those who appeared of Asian ethnicity were separated out by airport security personnel and individually interrogated. They were asked "whether or not they studied Falun Gong and whether or not they were members of Falun Gong." After these interrogations they were taken to another room, not permitted to speak among themselves, and interrogated for an additional five hours. After these interrogations those whose names were not on the restricted list were permitted to enter Iceland. Those whose names were on the list were denied entry, irrespective of the answers they provided to Customs and security personnel concerning their Falun Gong affiliation, and were told that they would be deported. Upon information and belief, the "list" was assembled, complied, and circulated for this purpose by the Defendants to prevent any protest outside of China of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Those on the list were placed in detention in a schoolhouse near the airport for a period of 18 hours. Finally, on June 12, 2002, after a long and difficult ordeal, they were released and permitted to enter Iceland. They were told that there had been a change in policy to allow them to enter the country because of a groundswell of protest and support from the Icelandic people and the press concerning the Government of Iceland's exclusionary and discriminatory policies.

B. Defendants

23. Defendant JIANG is a citizen and resident of the People's Republic of

China. As Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of China since September 1997, as Chair of Central Military Committee of the People's Republic of China and as Chair of the People's Republic of China, since March of 1993, Defendant JIANG exercises executive authority over the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and over all high ranking officials and organs of the government of the People's Republic of China. These areas of responsibility include authority to set policy, to control and manage national and local government affairs, and to select, appoint, remove and manage government and party officials. Defendant JIANG has used his authority in the Peoples Republic of China to organize and operate an illegal operation that imposes the most serious abuses of human rights standards on Falun Gong practitioners.

24. More particularly, Defendant JIANG established the clandestine Office 6/10, as an elite branch of the Communist Party with the highest authority to monitor, investigate and persecute Falun Gong in June of 1999. The 6/10 Office, as a subdivision of the ruling party of China, which has control over but is not itself apart of the governing organs of the state, acts under color of law to pursue its campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. The office acts under the command and control of defendant JIANG. It employs and directs government officials and other public agencies such as media communications and law enforcement to carry out a campaign of murder, torture, terrorism, rape, beatings, and destruction of property against members of Falun Gong and their families.

25. Under Defendant JIANG's mandate and direction, Defendant Office 6/10 has absolute power to set policy guidelines, design and implement programs, and establish norms which enable each national, city, and provincial level of administration in the Communist Party, the Public Security Ministry, each of the other Ministries (e.g., Ministries of National Security, Civil Affairs, Economy, Planning, Treasury, Health, Religion, Education), and other administrative organs to assist in the campaign to monitor, control, suppress, and eradicate the Falun Gong spiritual practice in China. It is the Office 6/10's duty and obligation under this mandate to appoint, discipline and remove those national, provincial, and city government officials who do not comply with the directives of their office, irrespective of the power and authority vested in them by the Constitution and laws of China. Its authority further encompasses not only the power to override the Constitution and laws in pursuit of the campaign of repression against Falun Gong, but the power to order the investigation and criminal indictment of any and all officials of government, or of the Communist Party, whatever their capacity, who fail to comply with the directives of their office. Its authority further allows them to require national and local government officials to override any other laws, rules and regulations of China that might interfere with the carrying out of the directives of the Falun Gong Control Office and its mandate for suppression of the Falun Gong movement.

26. Acting together Defendant JIANG and the OFFICE 6/10, as co-conspirators, direct the activities of all government and Communist party national and local officials, bureaus and units to accomplish the control, suppression and eradication of Falun Gong in China.

III. GENERAL STATEMENT OF FACTS

27. As the Chair of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Chair of the People's Republic of China, and the Chair of the Central Military Committee of the People's Republic of China, Defendant JIANG began a national policy and campaign to seek the termination of the spiritual practices of Falun Gong and the extermination of its members, in June and July of 1999. This campaign was initiated, designed, authorized, and implemented by Defendant JIANG at the highest levels of the Communist Party and the government. Defendant JIANG issued the initial order that banned the spiritual movement, declaring it and its practitioners unlawful, and subjecting its members to a cruel and abusive campaign of persecution aimed at the elimination of Falun Gong spiritual practice and practitioners in China.

28. In July of 1999, Defendant JIANG abrogated the power and authority of the legislative branch (the National People's Congress) when he issued an edict declaring Falun Gong to be an illegal organization that represented a threat to the government and people of China, and which therefore must be brutally suppressed. In July of 1999, Defendant JIANG abrogated the authority vested in the Ministry of Public Security when, upon information and belief, he ordered them to issue a list of unlawful prohibitions geared directly at Falun Gong, a list which, inter alia, made criminal the constitutional right to petition in defense of Falun Gong. In October of 1999, Defendant JIANG suborned the National People's Congress when, upon information and belief, he ordered them to adopt the "decision" to legitimize the crackdown by the retroactive passage of a series of laws targeting "evil cults." These laws which do not mention Falun Gong by name, have been used not only to arrest and torture illegally persons who practice Falun Gong, but they have also been used to arrest and torture illegally Catholics, Tibetans, Protestants, and other Christian sects, that like Falun Gong, are deemed to represent a threat to the hegemony and authority of the regime of Defendant JIANG Zemin.

29. In June of 1999, Defendant JIANG established the clandestine 6/10 Office as part of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which Defendant JIANG manages, directs, and controls, as its Chair. In his speech delivered on June 7, 1999 to the Standing Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman JIANG said, "after the leading group [Office 6/10] dealing with Falun Gong problems has been established within the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, it should immediately organize forces, find out the organization system nationwide of Falun Gong as soon as possible, constitute the battling strategies, get fully prepared for the work of disintegrating Falun Gong, we should never launch a war without preparations. We must immediately find the head of Falun Gong, research his misdeeds and his international backgrounds, prepare material about him" See "Comrade Jiang Zemin's Letter Speech at the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, June 7, 1999.

30. The 6/10 Office was immediately established by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, under the mandate and direction of its chair, Chairman JIANG, at national and local levels as a subdivision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and at the local and regional levels with branches within each province and city of the People's Republic of China. A Document issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of Taishan City, in Guangdong Province, is fairly typical of documents issued in other cities and provinces across China. In this document, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, establishes the operation of the Office 6/10 as a subdivision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Its duties and responsibly include: "to implement the decisions from the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party regarding preventing and dealing with Falun Gong and other evil cults, and other organizations that are harmful to society; ensure communication between upper and lower levels; gather information and understand the plan of Falun Gong and other evil cults and other organizations that are harmful to society; summarize relevant information and report major issues; Coordinate relevant departments to carry out social propaganda activities against evil cults; and carry out other assignments given by the Chinese Communist Party City Committee and upper level 6/10 offices.

31. Since its inception, Defendant Office 6/10, in concert with Defendant JIANG and the Central Committee of the Communist Party has directed, organized, orchestrated and implemented the persecution of Falun Gong across China. Their role in the city of Beijing is highly typical of their role elsewhere in China. Abuses committed by police and security forces in Beijing - in addition to those committed by high-ranking government officials, members of the judicial and other government agencies and organs - have been directed, managed, ordered, mandated, sanctioned and designed by the national and city offices of Office 6/10. According to an Amnesty International Briefing (3 September 2001 AI Index: ASA 17/028/2001), "the 6/10 office has issued unwritten instructions allowing police and other officials to go beyond legal constraints in this campaign, discharging them of legal responsibility if a Falun Gong practitioner dies in detention due to beatings. " According to an Washington Post article (Sunday, August 5, 2001,) "China Systematically Eradicating Group," Beijing's 6/10 office ordered all neighborhood committees, state institutions, and companies to begin to use brainwashing classes, to send active members of Falun Gong to labor camps where they are first "broken' by beatings and other torture. At the same time, this article also reports, the 6/10 office is getting more efficient at forcing local officials to carry out its orders on Falun Gong; they dispatch teams to local officials to ensure a "proper attitude" toward Falun Gong in Beijing (and elsewhere in China). Similarly in the province of Shanghai, officials from the Shanghai 6/10 Office ordered police to arrest large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners and detain them in "re-education" classes. The campaign was to be carried out in the name of national security and in coordination with a nationwide initiative to employ "re-education" classed. Over 100 female Falun Gong practitioners were detained in a women's labor camp. As a result, at least dozens of male practitioners were also forced into "re-education through labor" camps. In addition to the arrests, arbitrary detention, torture in police precincts and detention centers, forced-feeding in hospitals, and further abuse in psychiatric hospitals, many practitioners have died in Shanghai while in police custody.

32. The Liao Ning and Heilongjiang Provinces are known to be among the most repressive and abusive jurisdictions in China as regards the arrest and treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. Since President JIANG's order banning the Falun Gong movement and calling for suppression of their practitioners issued on July 20, 1999, and the establishment of 6/10 offices in both provinces, at least 27 Falun Gong practitioners have died from torture inflicted in labor camps and detention centers in Liao Ning Province, and 29 have died from torture inflicted by camps in Heilongjiang Province. These are the two highest death tolls of Falun Gong detainees of any of the Provinces in China. Masanjia Labor Camp, located in Shenyang City, the capital of Laio Ning Province, is one of the most notorious prison labor camps in the country that is heavily used to incarcerate and torture Falun Gong practitioners. Four hundred and twenty seven Falun Gong practitioners were reported to be detained in this prison labor camp in June of 2000.

33. Together, Defendant JIANG and Defendant Office 6/10 direct the activities of all government and Communist Party national and local officials, bureaus and units to accomplish the control, suppression and eradication of Falun Gong in China. For example, in June of 1999, Defendants JIANG appointed Ding Guangem, Minister of the Office of Propaganda, as one of three directors of the National Office of the Office 6/10, thereby facilitating the Office 6/10's control over the all media and propaganda activities of the nation. Since that time, Defendant JIANG and the Office 6/10 have supervised a large-scale, national media and propaganda campaign directed against the Falun Gong and its practitioners. One of their main goals has been to spread lies and misinformation about Falun Gong to explain, justify and motivate the harshly repressive actions that have taken place, including massive arrests, widespread torture, and a substantial number of executions, while in police custody, who practice Falun Gong.

34. One important part of the media campaign was the government's staging of the immolation of five actors in Tiananmen Square. This was done in a way to convince the citizens of the China that it was not a staged immolation but real. As a result of this government campaign, many persons in China have been convinced that practitioners of Falun Gong would engage in self-destructive and bizarre actions.

35. By April, 2001, in his capacity as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Defendant JIANG had developed and instituted a harsher and even more highly organized and systematic campaign of state-sanctioned violence against Falun Gong. The methods used under this campaign of heightened repression and violence. They included even more widespread arrests and torture by local police, more extensive use of detentions at reform-through-labor detention centers, holding families responsible for actions of other family members through use of economic sanctions, the withholding of salaries and retirement pay, refusing promotions, health care and education benefits, and other arbitrarily imposed punishments.

36. The Defendants also implemented a new propaganda campaign as part of these increased repressive efforts, replete with condemnations and denunciations of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and its practitioners from every sector of Chinese society. An August 2001 Washington Post News Service article entitled "Torture Is Breaking Falun Gong" described these even more extensive anti-Falun Gong suppression activities as consisting of three major elements. First and foremost was to increase the use of police brutality as a method for punishing and intimidating practitioners who refused to renounce their belief. Second, was the more widespread and systematic use of compulsory "study sessions," to force practitioners of Falun Gong to abandon and denounce their beliefs. Third, a new and more intense propaganda campaign was instituted to create the climate of hatred and public condemnation to support the application of more violent sanctions on Falun Gong practitioners.

37. Defendant OFFICE 6/10 played a major role organizing and carrying out this harsher policy. Directives issued by the OFFICE 6/10 given to the local police, prison guards, and other government personnel mandated a heightened campaign of arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault, and even murder against Falun Gong practitioners. In all types of detention facilities, including holding cells in local police precincts, detention centers, prisons, jails, labor camps, and mental hospitals, violence and torture has become a daily tool utilized to silence and suppress practitioners of Falun Gong. These violations include physical assault, force feeding with hot pepper or high-density salt water, denial of food, sleep and bathroom facilities, exposure to extreme hot and cold weather, burning with cigarettes and heated metal, and the administration of shocks with electric batons. Women practitioners have suffered especially an array of sexual assaults that include rape, forced abortions, and placement of electrical discharge devices in genital areas.

38. Since July of 1999, on the national level it is estimated by Falun Info Net, that over 100,000 practitioners have been arbitrarily and unlawfully arrested and detained in prison facilities simply because of their beliefs, associations and activities related to the Falun Gong. It is estimated that more than 500 of these detainees have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 18 years, with 1,000 more improperly assigned to mental hospitals to deal with practitioners by the use of involuntary medical treatment for political purposes unrelated to medical needs that is widely condemned by the international medical community, and that violates specific provisions of international human rights treaties. It is estimated that over 20,000 practitioners have been sent illegally to prison labor camps without trial. At least 361 deaths of detainees have occurred as a result of torture inflicted while they were in the custody of law enforcement or prison personnel. The United States Department of State Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2001 confirms that over 200 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners have occurred as a result of torture inflicted while in detention and subject to the authority of police and prison officials. Numerous other practitioners have been tortured solely because of their spiritual belief and social support of Falun Gong.

39. The extent and seriousness of the persecution and abuse that is targeted against Falun Gong practitioners, and their supporters, at both the national level, and local levels throughout China have been confirmed and extensively documented by the U.S. Government in its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, and most especially in its Annual Reports on International Religious Freedom, as well as in reports issued by non-governmental human rights monitoring groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. For example, the just issued Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2001, issued by the U.S. Department of State in December, 2001, includes numerous specific references to the major human rights abuses and violations being committed against Falun Gong practitioners in an effort to eliminate them and totally eradicate the presence of Falun Gong in China. The report describes the "crack down" against the Falun Gong as tied to the Government of China's effort "to control and regulate religious groups to prevent the rise of groups or sources of authority outside the control of the Government and the Chinese Communist Party." (page 122) It notes that "approximately 100 or more Falun Gong adherents have died in detention since 1999" (p.122); that "many of their bodies reportedly bore signs of severe beatings and/or torture;" that "many thousands of individuals are serving sentences in reeducation-through-labor camps;" that "hundreds of its practitioner have been confined to mental hospitals;" that "there have been numerous credible reports of unrepentant Falun Gong practitioners being confined in psychiatric institutions;" that "police often used excessive force when detaining peaceful Falun Gong protesters, including some who were elderly or who were accompanied by small children;" and that "torture (including by electric shock and by having hands and feet shackled and linked with crossed steel chains)" was widely reported (page 131). The State Department Report also notes that in "September 2000 the Secretary of State designated China a country of particular concern under the International Religious Freedom Act for particularly serious violations of religious freedom," including its treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. (p. 133).

40. Defendant JIANG has served as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, since September 7, 1997. As such, he has exercised command authority over the clandestine operation of the Office 6/10, at both national and local - city and province - levels. Defendant JIANG was primarily and solely responsible for creating the Office 6/10 with its mandate to solve the Falun Gong problem in China. He issued an edict unlawfully making the practice of Falun Gong illegal in China in direct violation of the Constitution which not only gives the National Congress the sole right to pass such laws, but also assures all citizens the right to religious freedom, freedom of belief, association and peaceful expression. Since that time, and as reflected in numerous speeches, he has continued to play a critically important role in the continued commission of human rights abuses against Falun Gong in China.

41. Defendant JIANG served as the primary official responsible for the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong, in concert with other high-ranking officials of the People's Republic of China. Under Chinese law and international law, Defendant JIANG had a duty to ensure that high-ranking officials - in Office 6/10 as well as other organs of the Government and Party - not engage in abuses of the rights of citizens and visitors of China. As Chair of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Defendant JIANG is obliged by the Charter of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Article 19, 9.29.1994) to select and appoint officials to the most important posts in China, and to manage, supervise, and direct their behavior. By Article four, chapter one of the Charter of the Chinese Communist Party (amended at the 15th National Congress of the Central Communist Party), he is further obliged to criticize and report the unlawful behavior of Communist Party officials. As Chair of the People's Republic of China, by Article 80 of the Constitution, Defendant JIANG 's duties also include appointing and removing important government officials. Like all public officials, by the Preamble to the Constitution, Defendant JIANG is further required to uphold the Constitution and Chinese law, which includes the protection of civil, democratic and other rights and freedoms of the citizens of China. These responsibilities have been violated in the process of organizing and carrying out the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong.

42. At all times relevant to this complaint, on information and belief, Defendant Office 6/10 acting under the direction of and in conspiracy with Defendant JIANG, in direct violation of the rule of law actively participated in formulating and carrying out the policy and program that resulted in the acts of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, murder, and genocide that form the basis of this complaint. This occurred at national and local levels, in all cities, provinces, labor camps, detention centers, psychiatric and medical hospitals - always under the mandate, orders, supervision and design of Defendant JIANG and Defendant Office 6/10.

43. Consistent with the general description and documentation of the serious infringement of human rights that were carried out against Falun Gong practitioners throughout China, each of the Plaintiffs and their families suffered very concrete injuries and losses as a result of the actions of the Defendants and other municipal, provincial and national government officials aimed at exterminating Falun Gong spiritual practice and its practitioners.

44. In addition to organizing and carrying out a campaign of torture, genocide and other gross violations of international human rights directly against all persons who embrace the spiritual practice of Falun Gong in China, the Defendants extended their efforts to discredit and marginalize Falun Gong to other countries. Defendant Office 6/10 and other unidentified entities and officials in China, operating under the instruction of Defendant JIANG and in conspiracy with him, compiled a list of suspected Falun Gong "members" and supporters living abroad with the intention and purpose of using this list to harm and discredit those whose names appeared on the list, and to discredit the spiritual practice of Falun Gong, more generally.

45. In June of 2002, Defendants and other unidentified Chinese officials conspired to circulate this list to the Government of Iceland and a number of other governments throughout the world and to encourage those governments to restrict travel and movement of the individuals on this list. In particular, the Defendants and other unidentified co-conspirators urged those governments to prevent listed individuals from traveling to Iceland on and around June 12 through June 18 of 2002 in order to present during the official state visit of Defendant JIANG to their country so that they might engage in peaceful meditative vigil to bring international attention to the Defendant's role in the campaign of persecution, torture, genocide against Falun Gong in China. Those efforts, in fact, resulted in the Government of Iceland circulating the Falun Gong "black list" to Icelandair airlines and instructing them to not permit passage to Iceland on Icelandair airlines to those whose names were on the list. As a result, well over a hundred individuals residing in the United States, the great majority of whom are alien residents, whose names appeared on the "blacklist" and who had reserved and paid for passage on Icelandair flights, were denied passage by Icelandair, and were subjected to extreme embarrassment and mistreatment when they arrived at airports throughout the United States to board their flights to Iceland. Many of them were shown copies of the "blacklist' that had been compiled and circulated by the Defendants and were told that this was the reason why their tickets for passage on Icelandair flights were abruptly and arbitrarily cancelled. A number of other aliens residing in the United States, who are practitioners of Falun Gong, whose transportation to Iceland were not cancelled found themselves arbitrarily detained by Iceland customs and security personnel when they arrived in Iceland, questioned about their spiritual beliefs, and association and "affiliation" with Falun Gong, and held in custody for varying amounts of time in order to keep them from participating in peaceful meditative sessions and protests in Iceland directed at the visit of Defendant JIANG to that country.

46. These restrictive and damaging policies and practices, directed against residents and citizens of the United States and other countries outside of China, were organized and carried out by, and under the direction and supervision of, Defendant JIANG and Defendant Office 6/10, to the injury of a number of Falun Gong practitioners and supporters residing in the United States.

47. The following specific abuses, constituting torts involving the most serious forms of intentionally inflicted physical and mental suffering and injury, were inflicted upon the plaintiffs as a direct result of the actions of the Defendants and those with whom they conspired to carry out the officially sanctioned and mandated policy of persecuting, punishing, intimidating, and eliminating Falun Gong practitioners, and the Falun Gong spiritual practice in China. Each of these types and forms of abuse also constituted violations of international law embodied in treaties and in customary international practice, binding on both the United States and the Government of the Peoples' Republic of China as indicated and explained in each paragraph below, thereby bringing these torts within the terms of the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, as indicated above in paragraphs 3 through 6 in the Jurisdiction Section of this complaint. They were carried out by the Defendants and the other officials with whom they conspired, acting in their official capacity and/or under color of law, with the specific intent and purpose of abridging and denying the Plaintiffs of their internationally protected human rights, and punishing, intimidating and coercing, and in numerous cases, executing them for the exercise of those rights, in violation of international law. Some of the enumerated violations (paragraphs 44 through 46) also constitute violations of 42 U.S.C. section 1985.

48. The Convention Against Torture, which came into effect internationally on June 26, 1987, and was ratified by the United States on October 21, 1994 and implemented and given domestic effect by Congress through legislation adopted in 1994 and 1998, and ratified by the Government of China on October 4, 1998, prohibits the intentional infliction of "severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental" for any purpose, including but not limited to punishment, intimidation or coercion. The infliction of torture was the first type of human rights violation that U.S. courts recognized as authorizing the granting of relief under the Alien Tort Claims Act, in the landmark case of Filartega v. Pena-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980). Torture also is prohibited absolutely under other international instruments and treaties and under customary international law, including Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The latter treaty came into effect internationally on March 23, 1976, and was ratified by the U.S. on June 8, 1992, and by the Government of the Peoples' Republic of China on October 5, 1998. The Universal Declaration is not a treaty, but a unanimously adopted resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations that is widely recognized as an embodiment of fundamental and universally accepted standards of customary international law. The abusive practices imposed upon the Plaintiffs and other Falun Gong practitioners in detention, including beatings, prolonged periods of restraint and denial of food, water and sleep, as well as the use of instruments of torture, and being forced to witness the torture of others, as described by Plaintiffs in paragraphs thirteen through eighteen, and twenty three through twenty six of this complaint, constitute severe pain and suffering under the meaning of the Convention Against Torture and the other international instruments, and thereby constitute violations of international law under the terms of the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1350.

49. As has been extensively documented by the U.S. Department of State in its Country Reports on Human Rights and its Reports on International Religious Persecution, China has engaged in a consistent and widespread pattern and practice of subjecting Falun Gong practitioners to torture while in detention. Plaintiffs A, B, C, D, E, F have provided specific examples of how they have been subjected to torture, and have suffered physical and psychological injuries as a result of these practices that the Defendants and government officials with whom he has conspired have promoted and supported (see paragraphs thirteen through eighteen, and twenty three through twenty six.).

B. SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION: GENOCIDE

50. Genocide is prohibited under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (referred to as the Genocide Convention), which entered into force internationally on 12 January 1951, and was ratified by the U.S. on November 25, 1988, and by the Peoples' Republic of China on April 18, 1983. Genocide is defined in the Convention as intentional actions taken "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" through such means as "killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...." (Article II)(a) through (c)) The actions of the Defendants and the government officials with whom they conspired meet this definition because they consisted of an officially condoned, instituted and intentionally inflicted policy and practice of inflicting serious bodily harm, resulting in a number of cases death while in detention, against members of a spiritual group aimed at punishing, intimidating and coercing them because of their religious and spiritual beliefs, associations and practices, with the ultimate aim of elimination of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and its practitioners.

C. THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION: THE RIGHT TO LIFE

51. Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which came

into force internationally on 23 March 1976, and was ratified by the United States on June 8, 1992, and by the Peoples' Republic of China on October 5, 1998, confirms that "Every human being has the inherent right to life" and that "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life." This same principle is set out in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a United Nations' General Assembly Resolution unanimously adopted on 10 December 1948, and now interpreted as the clearest embodiment of the universal standards of human rights enshrined in customary international law. As indicated above, an extraordinarily large number of Falun Gong practitioners, confirmed to be over 200 100 in slightly over two years according to the U.S. Department of State, have died in detention under conditions that the U.S. Department of State has confirmed were likely linked to their torture. These executions through torture can be directly attributable to the orders of harsh suppression issued by Defendant JIANG and Defendant Falun Gong Control Office.

52. The right to liberty and security of the person is guaranteed by Article 3 of the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Article 9 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 9 of the Covenant also stipulates that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention" or "deprived of his liberty" except according to lawful procedures. Also of special relevance to the tort damage complaint that has been brought before this Court by the Plaintiffs, Article 9 stipulates that "Anyone who has been the victim of unlawful arrest or detention shall have an enforceable right of compensation." (Article 9(5)) The U.S. Department of State Report on International Religious Freedom for 2001 confirmed that, "During the period covered by this report ... there were many thousands of cases throughout the year of individuals receiving criminal, administrative, and extra judicial punishment for practicing Falun Gong, admitting that they believed in Falun Gong, or simply refusing to denounce the organization or its founder," (p. 125) with "as many as 300 practitioners ... sentenced to prison terms of up to 18 years for their involvement in Falun Gong," and "many thousands of individuals are serving sentences in reeducation-through-labor camps." (p. 1313) The State Department report indicates that between 1998 and 1999, the Law Yearbook of China (an official publication) indicated a dramatic increase in arrests for "disturbing the social order," from 76,500 to over 90,000, with the increase "primarily ... due to the Government's crackdown, begun in mid-1999, on ... groups like Falun Gong...." (p. 129) The arbitrary arrests and detentions described by the Plaintiffs in this complaint are indicative of the type of arbitrary administration of justice that has been imposed by the Defendants in concert with other high ranking officials on Falun Gong practitioners, resulting in the arbitrary deprivation of liberty, and often serious injuries and deaths.

F. SIXTH CAUSE OF ACTION: THE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT,

53. The right to "freedom of thought, conscience and religion," and the right to hold

opinions without interference and to associate with others freely, are enshrined in Articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration, and Articles 18, 19 and 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As enumerated in the preceding sub-paragraphs, and in the U.S. Department of State Reports on International Religious Freedom and Country Reports on Human Rights, these internationally recognized rights and protections have been seriously infringed by the Defendants' policies and actions banning the Falun Gong, and seeking the repression, punishment and intimidation of their practitioners in order to end the movement. This "harsh" and "unremitting campaign against Falun Gong" has included assigning "many thousands" to "re-education through labor camps" and other "facilities specifically established to 'rehabilitate' practitioners who refuse to recant their belief voluntarily." (p. 129-131, State Dept. Report on International Religious Freedom for 2001). Each of the identified Plaintiffs in this case have indicated how their arrest, detention and punishment, including torture and sexual abuse, took place because of their adherence to Falun Gong beliefs or practices, and their refusal to give up these beliefs.

54. Each of the above-cited violations of international treaty-based law also involve the abridgement and violation of the same rights protections enumerated in sub-sections A through F (above) as embodied in customary international law. It is well established that the enumeration of these types of universally recognized rights and protections in specific treaties do not remove them from coverage by customary international law, but merely provide an additional treaty-based framework recognizing their internationally protected status. This distinction, and the additional coverage by international customary law, are important, since they provides a basis for requiring compliance with universally accepted human rights standards by all nations and governments, whether or not they have specifically ratified individual human rights treaties. For example, in Filartega v. Pena-Irilla, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980), U.S. courts found it possible to apply the prohibitions against torture as a basis for an Alien Tort Claims Act complaint based on customary international law as well as the treaties embodying the same anti-torture standards.

55. In addition to their tort actions constituting violations of international law, Defendants also conspired together and with others to deprive a number of individual in the United States of their civil rights, in violation of 42 U.S.C. 1985. Specifically, and in conjunction with, and in support of, this campaign of repression against the Falun Gong in China, the Defendants extended their effort to persecute and intimidate Falun Gong practitioners, and to restrict their right to protest against Chinese Government policies of repression and torture, to practitioners here in the United States and other Western nations. Defendants, as an integral part of their campaign of persecution and discreditation of Falun Gong spiritual practice and its practitioners in China, compiled a list of known practitioners and supporters of Falun Gong in other countries and circulated this list as part of a campaign to prevent supporters and practitioners from traveling to Iceland and other nations to protest peacefully the appearance in those countries of the Defendants and other Chinese officials engaging in the campaign of persecution against Falun Gong. For example, in connection with the visit of Defendant JIANG to Iceland in June of 2002, the Defendants gave this list, which they had already compiled, to the Government of Iceland and to Icelandair, as well as to the Icelandic Parliament, with a formal request from the Government of China that Falun Gong practitioners be prevented from coming into the country. This list, and the request of the Government of China played a substantial role in causing the infliction of damages and violations of law described in this complaint. There are numerous reports that this or a similar list of practitioners was used by the Chinese Government as early as May 7, 2001 to seek to prevent the entry of practitioners into Hong Kong during a visit there by President Jiang.

55. These torts committed in the United States, constitute violations of the civil rights of the U S. citizens and alien residents living in the U.S. in violation of 42 U.S.C. section 1985, including the right to travel, the right to freely hold, observe, and exercise spiritual beliefs, the right to associate freely with others, and the right to exercise fundamental freedom of speech and expression. For the majority of those whose names appeared on the Falun Gong "blacklist" compiled by the Defendants, who are alien residing in the United States, those actions constituted violations of both 42 U.S.C. section 1985, and the Alien Tort and Torture Victims Protection Act.

56. Based on the above facts, jurisdictional claims and legal arguments, Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, ask for judgment against the Defendant as follows:

1. For compensatory damages according to and consistent with the injuries described, the extent of which will be demonstrated according to evidence to be presented;

2. For punitive and exemplary damages according to and consistent with the extraordinary and gross nature of the Defendant's conduct and the injuries it produced, the extent of which will be demonstrated according to evidence to be presented;

3. For a declaratory judgment confirming the unlawful nature of the pattern and practice of gross violations of human rights that have taken place, and that the Defendants played a material part, in concert with other high-level officials in China, in planning and carrying out these policies and practices, with the result of serious and permanent injury of the Plaintiffs;

4. For injunctive relief, consistent with the jurisdiction of this Court, prohibiting further unlawful action resulting in serious and permanent injury to the Plaintiffs and others in the class whom they represent;

5. For such other relief as the Court may deem suitable and necessary; and,

6. For reasonable attorneys' fees and costs associated with these proceedings, including service of process and providing proof of the tort actions committed and the nature and extent of the injuries they have produced, establishing and carrying out the class action elements of the case, taking particular account of the attorney fee authorization in 42 U.S.C. section 1985.

Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 38(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a jury trial is demanded for this case.

Dated:________

Respectfully submitted,

________________

FREDERICK S. RHINE
Chicago, IL

________________

Terri E. Marsh, Esq.
Washington DC
(pro hac vice)

(Clearwisdom.net)

Freedom of association in China

Open letter to [China's] Head of State, and [China's] Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party

Paris, Geneva, 20th December 2002
By fax: 86 10 6 529 2345

Excellencies,

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in the framework of their joint programme the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, would like to express their concern with regard to the restrictions to freedom of association in China.

Freedom of association is enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China signed in 1998. It is also protected by the Chinese Constitution (art. 35). However, restrictive legislation has been enacted in 1998 : Order N^o 250 Regulations on the Registration and Management of Social Groups; Order N^o 251 Provisional Regulations on the Registration and Management of People-Organised Non-Enterprise Units; and Order N^o 252 Provisional Regulations on the Registration and Management of Institutional Units. These laws expand the "registration and management" scheme previously applicable only to "social groups" to all non-profit initiatives undertaken by Chinese citizens.

The 1998 legislation raises the requirements for the establishment of a social group ; allows for a preemptive ban on the registration of an organization or unit, based on "evidence" of how it might act, and threatens those engaging in unapproved activities with unspecified criminal penalties and criminal detention; triples the length of time required for the processing of a registration application from a social group, from 30 days to 90 days, and adds a third stage to the approval process; bars individuals who have ever being deprived of their political rights from acting as the representative or "responsible persons" of an organization ; prohibits national groups from establishing any kind of regional-level branch office, thus severely restricting the coordinating capacity of any social group and prohibits non-enterprise units from setting up any branch offices; allows for extensive government interference in the financial affairs of groups; increases the controls to be imposed on social groups by the government "sponsors" to which they are required to be attached.

This legislative framework restricts excessively freedom of association. In practice, people calling for human rights improvements, ranging from members of the China Democratic Party to Falun Gong practitioners, are systematically silenced. Efforts to organise independently, whether around issues of politics, religion, labour or human rights are ruthlessly repressed.

Official attitude towards independent human rights activism remains hostile; there is still no possibility of establishing rights monitoring groups inside the country. Individuals have continued to be arrested and sentenced to prison for seeking to expose rights abuses, help victims, or exercise their own rights to freedom of expression and association. Attempts to organise independent human rights groups have usually ended with activists being sent to prison.

[...]

Freedom of association is not respected either in the religious field. Since July 1999, the Chinese government has forbidden the movement of Falun Gong practitioners and has launched a repression against them. They are victims of an increasing use of torture in order to force them to renounce being part of the movement and reeducation through labour is largely used in the brutal campaign against them.

According to the figures provided on 26 September 2002, by the Falun Gong through the Falun Dafa Information Centre, 485 practitioners have allegedly died since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. According to the same source, 100,000 people would have been arbitrarily detained, 20,000 would have been sent to labour camps without trial (for terms up to 3 years), 500 would have been sentenced to extended jail terms (some up to 18 years) 1,000 healthy practitioners are being held in mental institutions.

[...]

China's 16th Party Congress has drawn a number of petitions and open letters from Chinese dissidents are calling for political reform and greater openness. At the same time, Chinese authorities have begun arresting some vocal dissidents in order to maintain a "peaceful and stable" atmosphere for the Congress.

The recent arrests of human rights and political activists are extremely worrying and damage the hopes raised by the election of the new Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, on November 14. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders therefore calls Chinese authorities to take the present submission into account in order to favour more openness with regard to freedom of opinion, expression and association in China.

We thank you for your attention.

Sincerely yours

Sidiki Kaba
President of the FIDH

Eric Sottas
Director of the OMCT

(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, the Jiang regime has not only continuously persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China and used propaganda to deceive the Chinese people, but they also have disregarded the laws of nations, censure from international consensus and illegally arrested overseas individuals visiting China, simply because they are Falun Gong practitioners. The most recent case occurred on January 23, 2003. US citizen, Mr. Charles Li (Xiangchun Li) was arrested when he arrived at Guangzhou Airport in China.

In response to this issue, Falun Gong practitioners from Houston, Texas held a rally at noon on February 4th in front of the Houston Chinese Consulate to call upon the international community to pay urgent attention to the illegal arrest of Mr. Charlies Li. We strongly requested that the Jiang regime immediately release Mr. Charles Li. Meanwhile, we also urgently appealed to all governments, organizations, and individuals throughout the world who support justice and kindness to join us in condemning the Jiang regime's crimes and to immediately stop their criminal acts which trample basic international laws and the people's freedom of belief, so that US citizen Charles Li will gain his freedom and come back to the US as soon as possible. We also appealed for the hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who are currently imprisoned in jails or labor camps and hope they too will be able to regain their freedom to practice Falun Gong and live in peace.

(Clearwisdom.net) An Australian Falun Gong practitioner and her six-year-old daughter arrived in Sydney at 8:15a.m. on February 3, 2003 via Hong Kong by Singapore flight after being released from one week's detention in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China. Her husband Lu Zhenlei and several Falun Gong practitioners welcomed them at the airport.

At 11:00 p.m., Nancy Chen gave a speech at a press conference outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney. She first expressed her heartfelt thanks to the Australian government, especially the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Western and Chinese media, the "Nancy Chen Urgent Rescue Team" and many other international parties and kind-hearted and just people for their joint efforts to secure her release.

After that, she told of her ordeal on her recent trip to China visiting her parents. Two days later after she arrived at home, she left Yibin County and set off to Chengdu City. On the afternoon of January 21, she arrived in Chengdu. Eight security officers from "610 Office" of the National Security Bureau in Chengdu City followed her in two jeeps and one motorcycle. She spent that night walking the streets endlessly in terror. Until 5a.m. on January 22, she managed to break away from them by taking a taxi and went to the US consulate in Chengdu for assistance. The Consular officials told her that they could help her book a flight to Hong Kong. As soon as two US Consular officials left after accompanying her to book the flight, a dozen security officers arrested Nancy Chen, the reason was that she is a Falun Gong practitioner. She was held in two hotels under 24-hour surveillance. They confiscated her passport, electronic notebook and cell phone, and locked her up from the outside connection and communication.

They treated her as if she were a "spy," and interrogated her for eight consecutive days. They asked her a lot of questions, such as, who sent her back to China? What was she doing in Chengdu and whom she was meeting. What are overseas Falun Gong practitioners doing daily, what her relationship was with the New York-based "Falun Dafa information center." They also asked her about names of overseas Falun Gong practitioners and Falun Dafa Association members as well as Falun Gong practitioners in Sichuan Province. Nancy Chen told them about the international community's constant condemnation of Jiang regime's over the past three years' escalating suppression of Falun Gong. She said there is no such ridiculous thing as "the western opposing force uses Falun Gong" to oppose the Chinese government. Falun Gong practitioners do not get involved in politics. If Falun Gong practitioners had not had been illegally detained, sentenced, sent to forced labor camps and even tortured to death, they would not have needed to clarify the truth to the public.

"610 Office" personnel of the National Security Bureau attempted to get her to renounce her belief in Dafa. They took her to the terrible Nanmusi Female Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong City, Sichuan Province where over 500 female Falun Gong practitioners are illegally detained. Most of them are over 50-year-old women. In a very short period of time, what Nancy could see was that those steadfast Falun Gong practitioners who persisted in their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and refuse to write guarantee letters to give up practicing Falun Gong were forced to stand still for a long periods of time or were locked up in dark small rooms to suffer torture. Nancy said, the forced labor camps in China are as hideous and horrendous.

Due to the intervention of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Australian Embassy in China and the international pressure, at 3p.m. on January 30, Chinese authorities had to release Nancy Chen who was told that she and her daughter would leave China in a limited time and would not be allowed to return China for three years.

During the interrogation, Nancy Chen often heard the police officers talk about things like, what news is posted on Minghui Net [Chinese version of Clearwisdom Net], being published on Minghui Net again and all people in the world know, etc. These security officers visit Minghui Net daily and are very sensitive to the exposure of their evildoings on the Minghui Net.

Nancy's husband, a mechanical engineering PhD and Falun Gong practitioner Lu Zhenlei said, Nancy was kidnapped by the National Security Bureau personnel, the whole family was extremely worried when they suddenly lost track of her and did not know how she would be treated. The Chinese Spring Festival is approaching, if Nancy had not be released, it can't be imagined how dreadful and anxious the whole family would have become. It even harder to imagine how her parents would bear the news of such an unexpected attack.

Falun Dafa Australia spokesperson Tony Dai said, the same day when Nancy Chen was arrested, on January 22, an American citizen of Chinese descent, Falun Gong practitioner Charles Li was taken by the authorities toYang Zhou City, thousands miles away from the Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou City shortly after he landed. The US Consular officers in China were told that if Charles Li was charged, the highest sentence could mean up to 15 years. Charles Li denied the charges, and he said that the Chinese police arrested him because he is a Falun Gong practitioner. We are very worried about Charles Li's situation, and we will continue showing our deepest concern over his matter. We will cooperate with the "International Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" to try our best to rescue Charles Li. We also appeal to the international community and the media, people with a sense of justice to show your concerns over the case of Charles Li. The Jiang regime must immediately stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, and release Charles Li soon.

The media including SBS TV, The Australian came to conduct interviews. SBS Radio had a ten-minute live interview through the phone with Nancy Chen.

CNN reported on February 1, 2003 that space shuttle Columbia exploded in the space above Texas. This news shocked the whole world. President Bush cut short his weekend at Camp David to return to the White House to meet with his chief of staff and top advisers. FBI agents and NASA Scientists went to Texas to investigate the tragedy.

Residents of North Texas said they saw flames and heard a window-rattling boom Saturday about the time the space shuttle Columbia apparently disintegrated on its way to a scheduled landing at Cape Canaveral.

"It was like a car hitting the house or an explosion. It shook that much," said John Ferolito, 60, of Carrolton, north of Dallas.

The Columbia was returning to Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 16-day research mission when it broke up in flames about 200,000 feet over north-central Texas minutes before it was scheduled to land. NASA officials at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, said they last had contact with the craft about 9 a.m. EST.

Streaking through the atmosphere at 18 times the speed of sound, Columbia disintegrated Saturday morning about 15 minutes before its scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A timeline of the final minutes of the shuttle flights and the hours following it (all times EST): at 8:15 a.m., space shuttle Columbia fires its braking rockets and streaks toward touchdown. At 8:53 a.m., ground controllers lose data from four temperature indicators on the inboard and outboard hydraulic systems on the left side of the spacecraft. The shuttle is functioning normally otherwise, so the crew is not alerted. At 8:56 a.m., sensors detect rise in temperature and pressure in tires on the shuttle's left-side landing gear. At 8:58 a.m., data is lost from three temperature sensors embedded in the shuttle's left wing. At 8:59 a.m., data is lost from tire temperature and pressure sensors on the shuttle's left side. One of the sensors alerts the crew, which is acknowledging the alert when communication is lost. At approximately 9 a.m., all vehicle data is lost. The shuttle is 207,135 feet over north-central Texas and is traveling about Mach 18.3. NASA officials try to re-establish communication for several minutes.

Texas and Louisiana residents report a loud noise and bright balls - shuttle debris -- in the sky.

"At this time we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground," NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said in a news conference Saturday afternoon.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, assisted by military forces from Fort Hood, Texas, have begun collecting debris from Columbia. People were urged not to go near the debris because it could contain toxic substances from the shuttle fuel.

To assist the recovery effort, the Federal Aviation Administration prohibited aircraft from flying below 3,000 feet in an area 160 miles long and 40 miles wide extending from Cedar Creek, Texas, to Fort Polk, Louisiana. The FAA also urged pilots and airlines to be alert to a debris cloud in the area -- 95 miles long and more than 22 miles wide -- that could create a "visibility issue" for pilots.

"Columbia's lost. There are no survivors," a grim-faced President Bush said in an address to the American people. "These astronauts knew the dangers, and they faced them willingly, knowing they had a high and noble purpose in life."

Bush ordered flags on federal buildings lowered to half-staff until Wednesday in honor of Columbia's crew, and many state governors followed suit.

"This day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country," the president said during the address.

To the families of the astronauts, Bush said, "Our entire nation grieves with you," and he made it clear that the United States would continue with manned space flight, despite the risks.

"The cause in which they died will continue," he said. "Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey will go on."

After naming the seven astronaut aboard the shuttle, Bush said, "These men and women assumed great risk in service to all humanity. In an age when space flight has come to seem almost routine, it is easy to overlook the dangers."

For their courage and idealism, "we will miss them all the more," he said.

"All Americans today are thinking as well of the families of these men and women," Bush said. "Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will always have the respect and gratitude of this country."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.columbia/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/sprj.colu.tictoc/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/01/security.shuttle/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/01/sprj.colu.shuttle.bush/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/01/shuttle.investigation/index.html

(Clearwisdom.net)

February 3, 2003 (Dongfang Report)

After the American space shuttle Columbia crashed, some rejoicing speeches appeared on Chinese websites. The noted Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo analyzed in an article published on an overseas website these unhealthy sentiments from some Chinese Internet users. Through the VOA hotline, some Chinese audiences also commented on the anti-American sentiments existing among some Chinese.

After the U.S. space shuttle Columbia crashed, many state leaders and people around the world expressed sympathy and condolences. They also expressed admiration for the U.S. scientists who committed themselves to the exploration of space for [the benefit of] mankind. However, on several major Chinese websites, rejoicing speeches appeared. In his article addressed to the U.S. website "Observe," writer Liu Xiaobo [residing in China] conducted a basic research on the statistics of such speeches. The results show that, although some Chinese people are taking pleasure in this disaster, their number is far less than the time following "September 11." However, at least 50% of the speeches posted on Sina.com.cn, NetEase (http://www.163.com/) were relishing the disaster. For example, some Chinese Internet chat room users said, "Thank Allah for blessing Iraq." Some think, "This is heaven's punishment for Americans who are trying to dominate the whole world." Others predicted, "the U.S. will decline while China will rise and defeat it." Some even claimed, "The Columbia disaster is the most beautiful fireworks in the New Year of the ram!"

Regarding the outpouring of extreme anti-American sentiments, writer Liu Xiaobo came to the analysis in his article written at his home in Beijing, "These sentiments are the exact results of vehement and narrow-minded nationalism that has been poisoning people's minds. Such nationalism murders human common values, eliminates people's basic sense of justice and sympathy; it confuses the fundamental difference between freedom and autocracy, humanity and anti-humanity, goodness and evil, truth and lies, civilization and brutality. Its only sentiment is cold-blooded hatred; its only verbal expression is cursing and irrational outpours, and its only facial expression is obscene and base."

A participant/listener with last name Liu from Shandong Province, China analyzed the anti-American sentiments among Chinese people through the VOA hotline. He thinks it is the result of the misleading media, controlled by the government. Liu said, "Right now, anti-American sentiments exist among the Chinese people. I think this is the result of the country and government fooling people. For example, people in China don't know what benefit and harm the relationship between the U.S. and China would bring upon China, so they developed anti-American sentiments. The Chinese government reports only one side of the story and distorts the truth. This is what that creates anti-American sentiments."

A net user named MBOY6 at the Qiangguo Forum on People's Daily had a different opinion on this issue. He said, "A large part of the fellow net users who rejoiced over Columbia's explosion are absolutely not cold-blooded. They are not happy because lives were lost; they were happy because U.S. space exploration suffered setbacks and because the infinite expansion of the U.S. superpower suffered a defeat." A Chinese net user on Sina.com disagreed with this opinion. He thinks we should not rejoice in others' setbacks, even if the U.S. is China's competitor. This net user named "Cold Heart" said, "Seven lives were forever lost on their return home to earth, yet in the eyes of the low-down people who took pleasure in it, it was only beautiful fireworks that decorated their cruel and shameless vanity. Jealousy made them lose the most elemental sympathy. Even if the U.S. is China's competitor, we should not place our hopes on the opponent having an accident. If an opponent better than us stumbles, should we clap our hands and cheer? If all Chinese people think we should, then the 2008 Olympics would be better held somewhere else."

February 3, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) Taiwan Falun Dafa Association's Solemn Announcement on January 28, 2003:

Today, MUCH TV Station cancelled a program interviewing Falun Gong practitioners. This program was advertised three days before to be shown today and the cancellation makes people suspect that the Chinese Communist Party is influencing Taiwan's media.

Every 9 - 10 p.m., MUCH TV Station shows a program called "Taiwan's Voice" hosted by Wang Benhu, the station's executive director and a famous author. Last Thursday and Friday (January 23 & 24), the program showed special editions by Zhu Gaozhen. In his interviews in China, Zhu reported groundless lies about Falun Gong. "Taiwan's Voice" then decided to balance it with a Falun Gong report. On January 25, "Taiwan's Voice" interviewed Ching-hsi Chang, a professor at the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University and the Director of Taiwan Falun Dafa Association and Liao Xiaofeng, the Vice President of Feizide Information Company and a board member of Taiwan Falun Dafa Association. MUCH had announced that it would air this program on January 27 and 28. On Monday, January 27, MUCH broadcast the first part of the program as scheduled. However, it canceled the scheduled re-show of the program at 2 p.m. on January 28 as well as Part II of this program that scheduled to be aired in the evening. The service group of the TV station told the public the reason was that "Ching-hsi Chang is not free tonight. Therefore the interview can't be done." However, this subtitled program was already pre-made.

The Part II of this program especially exposed the Jiang regime persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. We therefore suspect that the Jiang regime was the black hand behind the scene who blocked this program.

The Jiang regime has been oppressing Falun Gong for nearly four years. 550 Falun Gong practitioners were confirmed to have died as the result of this persecution. For the past four years, the regime has blocked all media channels and uses the media controlled by it to make lies and slander Falun Gong everywhere. Falun Gong has no political appeals or any criminal conduct. Falun Gong practitioners practice Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance and do not want any fame or personal benefit. They only ask for the freedom to practice. Yet this is not granted and even their basic right of speech is deprived.

Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong has recently extended overseas. In the United States and Australia, incidences occurred where the Chinese Embassy ordered some hoodlums to harm the practitioners' mental and physical health as well as personal properties. These cases have gone to court. Actually, several Chinese officials have already been prosecuted in the U.S. courts for persecuting some Falun Gong practitioners' relatives in China. Last October, when Jiang Zemin visited the United States, Falun Gong practitioners in Chicago charged him with the crime of Genocide. Even a head of state is not exempt from this charge.

Has the Jiang regime's hand reached Taiwan? We do not know. However, MUCH TV Station's abnormal behavior worries us. If Taiwan's freedom of speech must also watch the Jiang regime's face, where are we going to place ourselves. Falun Gong practitioners' effort in the past years is to request a basic human respect. Our insistence on this basic human right will not withdraw.

(Clearwisdom.net) Note: This is a reference article. All of the reference articles listed on this website were not written by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, Falun Gong practitioners.

When considering the issue of the effect of Article 23 legislation on the Basic Law of Hong Kong, the senior officials of the special district kept saying that everybody should discuss and solve the dispute with rationality and composure. However, the public, along with the groups who have been involved in the dispute, have noticed throughout the discussion that the senior officials of the special district are precisely the ones who lack most of the spoken of rationality and composure, especially Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, who is in charge of this matter.

Not only has Lau been coming up with all kinds of surprising and shocking statements such as, Hitler was a leader due to democratic election, but she also has labeled those who are against the legislation of Article 23 as people prone to exaggeration, fabrication, deception and misleading the public, etc. How can such inflammatory statements about the public and the opponents make the discussion calm and rational?

However, the inflammatory speeches were just part of the problem. The more important issue is that the government never truly intended to deal with this legislation issue through rational discussion.

As said Mr. Edward Chan, S.C., the newly elected chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association: in answering all kinds of worries from public and social groups, the district government has been avoiding the real issue, and talking about unrelated things. The district government even regarded the opinions of the Hong Kong Bar Association and the Attorney Association, opinions that were based on the law and professional legal knowledge, as only "bargaining chips," and were not willing to treat those opinions seriously.

When the senior officials of the government only want to look at discussion about the legislation of Article 23 on the Basic Law as a bargain or deal, they do not consider whether the opinion is reasonable or proper, but rather that just their political interest and how to make minimum compromises. How can such an attitude promote calm, rational and deep discussion? Moreover, when the government regards the inquiry into the legislation as simply a bargaining process, it has already positioned itself on the opposite side of the public. This shows that the government only wants to negotiate with all the social groups, rather than work with the public and different groups to make the legislation more appropriate to better protect the citizens' rights and freedoms.

We think, in order to make the discussion rational, the government must change its attitude of being involved in negotiation. It has to work with different groups such as the Hong Kong Bar Association to establish a common ground of protecting citizens' rights. Only when the government officials understand that citizens' rights are not negotiable, can the discussion about Article 23 on the Basic Law become truly calm and rational, and this dispute finally be solved.

Wednesday, 05-Feb-2003

HONG KONG, Feb 5 (AFP) - The Democratic Party accused the Hong Kong administration Wednesday of fixing the results of public consultation on controversial proposed anti-subversion laws.

The party's own submission had been categorised as being neither for nor against the proposed laws, when it was clearly opposed to them, party chairman Yeung Sum said.

Yeung accused the government of "political calculation" to show that those who agreed with the legislation outnumbered those against the laws, which rights groups fear could curtail basic freedoms.

"I think this is unacceptable," he told local radio.

He said a second consultation on the proposed national security legislation, set to go into effect mid-year, was now required.

Meanwhile legislator Cyd Ho filed a complaint with the ombudsman to demand an investigation into how submissions for the national security laws were handled.

She accused the government of failing to account for some 175,000 signatures and other opinions offered during the three-month consultation period.

This "made the community feel cheated by the administration," she said.

Security secretary Regina Ip said last month 97,097 local submissions involving 340,513 signatures had been received during the consultation which ended December 24.

The government announced last month a watering-down of the proposed security laws, which the former British colony has been required to pass since its return to China in 1997.

Changes included an exemption for foreign nationals from prosecution for treason.

The offence of seditious publication was also abolished and the definition of "unauthorised access" to information was narrowed, but the proposal to ban groups outlawed on the mainland on national security grounds was retained.

The proposed laws have sparked widespread concern that basic rights will be curtailed in Hong Kong. Mass protests were staged in December both for and against them.

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bt/Qhongkong-subversion.R7Pe_DF5.html

(Clearwisdom.net) Why does interference occur? Because the old forces are using excuses generated from their corrupt notions. We have experienced brutal persecution again and again since July 20, 1999 and lived through lies and rumors being spread all over the world. While we deny the arrangements of the old forces, we should also actively deny the old forces themselves. My understanding of Buddhas safeguarding the cosmos is that they take an active role in doing it. The ever-rotating Falun is also actively rectifying anything unrighteous. Since Dafa disciples, Dafa particles, are the most righteous form of being and matter, we ought to actively eliminate the poison of evil. For example, the symptoms of illness are only surface manifestations. Evil beings existing in other dimensions are the fundamental cause. If we fail to recognize and eliminate them with righteous minds, they will produce more troubles and symptoms, thus poisoning sentient beings.

I think what has happened recently is due to the following factor: We Dafa disciples as a whole haven't really positioned ourselves correctly from the rational perspective. That is, we haven't recognized our greatness and responsibility, nor have we balanced relations with the old forces well, and broken away from the mentality that Dafa disciples are being tested. In fact, Dafa disciples are in charge, rather than subjects to be tested. Our cultivation is not to perform to the satisfaction of the old forces in the tests arranged by them, rather it is a process of assimilating to Dafa. The tests imposed upon us by the old force should not have altered our cultivation. We are not to live up to their standards.

During the Fa-rectification period, looking within oneself is not a way to avoid persecution or to improve one's level. It itself is Fa-rectification. We all remember that a high-ranking government official in China was turned bad by the old forces. Had we improved ourselves and gotten rid of the attachment, the old forces probably wouldn't have had excuses to make him bad. If so, their arrangement of history with respect to this issue would have been denied. The related matters and factors that were arranged to have negative effects would have been rectified. Thus, while we were eliminating the evil, the related beings would have been brought to the right decision benevolently. Looking within oneself is very important. Each and every one of us Dafa disciples has various factors corresponding to ourselves in the Fa-rectification period. When we do well, we will be able to save and benevolently resolve the fates of the beings that are related to us. In this way we can consistently perfect ourselves and live up to the standards of a Dafa disciple. Then we will be able to save ourselves and other people, just like the characteristics of Falun when rotating inwards and outwards. Wherever we are, we will emit the purest light. "The Buddha-light illuminates everywhere and rectifies all abnormalities." (Zhuan Falun) We are supposed to harmonize the environment. For example, Dafa disciples are the leading characters in a play, while other sentient beings have supporting roles. A disciple who's stuck on a specific problem or at a certain level will not be able to prevent the failure of the salvation of the beings whom the old forces arranged to have negative effects on him and test him. If they are not being saved, they will commit more crimes against Dafa, or they will just repeat the same acts. If the practitioner has a strong righteous mind and lives up to the requirements of Dafa for him at that level, he will break away from the arrangement of the old forces and display the power of Dafa. Thus the sentient beings involved in that matter would be saved and their situations benevolently resolved. I feel that looking within oneself has a profound meaning, including dissolving misunderstandings or insufficient understandings of the Fa and looking at things with a righteous mind. Looking within oneself is to examine oneself in accordance with Dafa and cultivate oneself up to the standards of the indestructible Fa of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

The above is my own enlightenment limited to my current level. Any correction is welcome.

January 28, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) (The purpose of this article is to let people know what is happening in labor camps and brainwashing centers. I will explain various theories used so that people can fully realize how evil and absurd they are. As a consequence, I hope Dafa disciples going through tribulations will understand Dafa more solidly, deeply and comprehensively during this period and see through the evil "enlightenment.")

I will list some of the evil "enlightenment" I have heard about. It's easy to see that almost all of it claims to conform to Fa principles. The evil "enlightenment" seeks to justify itself by quoting parts of the Fa out of context and by twisting the Fa, which make it more deceptive. Some brainwashed people with evil "enlightenment," while under the control of the evil, noisily advocated their evil understandings in labor camps and brainwashing classes. The evil instilled such thoughts and also used physical and mental torture to "deal with" individual Dafa practitioners. I won't list the torture methods here, as many of them have already been published on Clearwisdom.

As time has passed, with practitioners' continuing appeals, firm rejection of the evil's arrangements and exposing the evil persecution in various ways, and with the powerful support of Dafa practitioners from outside China (I hereby express deep gratitude to overseas Dafa practitioners for their exposing and protesting these evil acts. Overseas practitioners' actions have effectively suppressed the evil and alleviated the pressure on detained Dafa practitioners. I am not alone in this - many of our incarcerated practitioners share the same feeling), most importantly, as Master's Fa-rectification progresses, the evil has gradually been eradicated and our environment has improved. The police here usually don't shock people with electric batons or beat and kick us at will as they did in the past. The corporal punishment we receive is not as severe as before.

The thugs also have changed their tactics and are resorting to softer methods. Sometimes they would put on a hypocritically kind mask and carry out so-called "help to reform" activities. For example, when new practitioners arrived there, they no longer beat or curse or punished them. Instead, they would fake kindness and chat with them. At this time, they don't get angry, even if you say something to provoke them. In fact, in the beginning they are observing and learning about your way of thinking and your mental attitude, and then they would accordingly work on you with specific "help-to-reform" tactics. They absolutely forbid newly arrived practitioners to get in touch with determined practitioners who have been detained there for some time, though, because practitioners who have been detained for a long time know about the true face of the jailers and can expose their hypocrisy.

Oftentimes, those who are sentenced to a labor camp are determined practitioners and they are somewhat mentally prepared before they arrive. They expect to suffer certain kinds of persecution after they enter the labor camp, and they have thought about how to remain unmoved when facing evil. Once they are in the labor camp, they find that they are not severely persecuted. The guards and collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture] all appear "kind," so they are likely to feel a bit puzzled and before long they loosen up a little. That is the time when the collaborators would start the "help-to-reform" scheme with the guards' instructions from behind the scene. They would start spreading their evil "enlightenment." For example, they would say, "We were like you at the very beginning, our minds were stubborn and couldn't give up certain things. When we got here, however, we saw it was not like what we thought of from the outside. Those reformed practitioners treated us well. Reform is good and it is improvement." They said other things as well.

If practitioners refused to be "reformed" in this way, the guards and authorities would find some recently brainwashed people in the labor camp or other brainwashed people from close to the practitioner's hometown to show themselves as examples, since they had just undergone "reform" after being steadfast in cultivation. They remember well the mental state they had during this period, and know the types of weaknesses to target. Also, people from the same place tend to share a lot in common. They know about same things that happened in that area, so it's easy for them to have common ground. Practitioners are likely to have little resistance to familiar things. It is therefore easier to instill evil "enlightenment" in them.

Failing this, they would find collaborators who have been "reformed" and are familiar with or know the practitioners well, to talk to the practitioners. When acquaintances meet, they naturally bear little caution and reduced vigilance. At this time, the collaborators would instill the evil messages. If this failed, they would find people of the opposite sex to do the job. Some practitioners are very stern before collaborators and they will firmly refuse their evil "enlightenment," but when they talk to someone of the opposite sex they will not be so unyielding, at least they will be outwardly more polite. If they don't firmly resist the situation, the collaborators spread their evil "enlightenment" while the practitioners are unaware. If the practitioners have the slightest misunderstandings or are unclear on even one point of the Fa, it's very easy for them to be affected by evil messages.

After a while, some people would gradually lose their righteous faith in Dafa because round after round of bombardment with evil messages can slowly erode their faith. The collaborators are very experienced. Usually several of them "help" one practitioner and because of the sheer numbers of people they gain the upper hand. Every one of the collaborators would observe and get to know the practitioner's words, actions, mental state and psychological characteristics, as well as their personal understanding of Fa principles. Every time after they returned from talking to the practitioner, they would analyze this practitioner's weakness of thought, gaps in words, and try to find out a breaking point in the practitioner's thinking. They would make up a so-called "take over the fort" plan and try again next time.

Dafa practitioners are usually honest, straightforward and uncomplicated. They don't realize the extent of the evil conspiracy behind the talk, and they innocently talk and debate with the collaborators. Most people, though, cannot guarantee the absolute thoroughness of their words and logic. The more opposing their views, the more engaged the argument, the more likely it is for the practitioners to have gaps in words. Another point is that the practitioners are each faced with several collaborators and it's hard for them to think rationally and think things through, so it's easy for the collaborators to capitalize on the practitioner's weak points, and the collaborators would mount a group-attack. Moreover, these evil collaborators claim that their ideas "conform to Fa principles, that they have enlightened to high level principles and have cultivated well." At the same time, in terms of practitioners' personal surroundings, the practitioners are confronted with great tribulations and their bodies and minds suffer greatly, while the collaborators are comfortable and free, supported by the evil. In this situation, if a practitioner has the slightest doubt in the Fa, it's very easy for them to be deceived.

If all of these methods failed, the evil persecutors would show their true face. The fake "kindness" would suddenly disappear and be replaced with threats and intimidation. "You must reform or you can forget about ever getting out! You will stay here until the iron bench is worn out!" Some thugs would even say, "If you don't reform you shall die!" Additionally, they use corporal punishments to torture the practitioners, such as heavy labor, or long hours of military-style drills under the scorching sun. They send several people to follow and monitor the practitioners and forbid them to walk or talk freely, or to contact other practitioners. Practitioners would be forced to work long hours during the day and the thugs would forbid them to sleep well at night. On top of that, they were forced to "study" slanderous material until very late at night. When the guards or collaborators again talk to the practitioner, instead of seeming calm and kind they would show their true faces, scorning, ridiculing, ranting and raving.

If a period of physical torture still wouldn't work, they also "invented" a way to make people "alone." I read about a case in the official "experience in reform work." There was a practitioner who was initially very determined in Dafa. She had a deep understanding of Dafa and her logic was thorough. No collaborators could move her. She was not afraid of tribulations and she had let go of life and death, and she didn't become persuaded, no matter how she was tortured. Later, the evil thugs came up with a different method and isolated her. They locked her in a solitary room and gave her three meals a day, but didn't let her work, nor was she allowed to do anything else but eat and sleep. At the same time, she was also forbidden to contact with others and was not allowed to talk. They tortured her with loneliness, boredom and isolation. She could persist for one or two days, even for one or two weeks, but after two or three months she could not last and she began to grow agitated. She tried to find someone to talk to, but there was no one! There was no one who even said something against her. During this whole time, the evil observed her at a close distance and when they saw the time had come, the guards began to appear to care about her and be thoughtful. The collaborators instilled her with evil thoughts, "Give up attachments and stop hurting yourself." At this time all she needed was to talk to someone and exchange words. When her mind was not set firmly against the evil messages, the evil took advantage of that and she was finally brainwashed.

Seeing this method was effective, the evil people used it on other determined practitioners who refused brainwashing. Some practitioners were detained in solitary confinement for as long as one year. According to some practitioners who were brainwashed before, when they were in physical and mental pain, they even hoped for someone to convince them with a "seemingly" Dafa-conforming thought that doesn't conflict with the government's requirement, in order to escape the painful tribulation and to justify themselves. At that moment, one's mind is only preoccupied with thoughts of how to get rid of the pain. His/her way of thinking is twisted and it's impossible for them to think about problems from the perspective of the Fa in an objective, thorough and rational manner, and this state of mind would make it possible for the evil thoughts and understanding to have their way through and destroy a great number of people. Its deception comes from the fact that people would not realize they are degenerating and self-deconstructing when they are deviating from the Fa, they even think they are "making progress and improving." The evil destruction is indeed very serious! If we think about it, though, this is not a coincidence. The reason the evil can make damage like this, aside from the evil influences themselves, has to do with our xinxing problems. If everyone's xinxing can be rational, determined and without any omission, the evil can do nothing! I think the tribulations and evil "enlightenment" resemble stumbling blocks on our cultivation path; if our xinxing is not high, we could easily be swallowed or stopped. If our understanding of the Fa is definitely determined and clear, we would be able to defeat these evil understandings and overcome them, and turn them into stepping-stones on which we make progress and improve ourselves, step by step.

For Part 1, please see

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/2/5/31736.html

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During the last few days, I often saw scenes somewhat like "fireworks" appearing in another dimension, with lots and lots of them being displayed at the same time. But, when I observed the phenomena again during the sitting meditation, I then realized that they were not "fireworks" but the births of new galactic stars in the universe!

The following was what I saw:

Many galactic stars outside our Milky Way were collapsing. A whole galaxy was seen disintegrating, as if it was melting into a fire. As soon as an old star had disappeared into a ball of fire, a new galactic star was born from the same ball of fire. Innumerable galaxies were disappearing and new galaxies were reappearing in their place at the same time and they were happening at a tremendous speed. When a new galaxy was born, new life began and the environment also changed at the same time within the galaxy.

Some new galactic worlds were ruled over by deities like Buddhas, some by Daos, and others by Gods manifested in various forms. The environment in these worlds was exceedingly pure, peaceful and harmonious - a state that never previously existed. All the sentient beings that had entered the new millennium were now enjoying the blessing bestowed by Dafa in these galactic worlds.

The galaxy of stars was actually a "universe" of its own. The deity in command of the new galaxy was busy creating a sublevel of his world, and at every sublevel, the magnificent scene of new stars created was also seen. It was a marvelous spectacle indeed.

The moment had now arrived for the whole cosmos to undergo Fa rectification changes, and all the living beings in the new universe were watching with concern, everything that was happening on earth...

When I came out of tranquility from the meditation, I began to think - Now that the truth is revealed before us, what excuse do we still have for not doing the things required of us in Fa rectification?

As Teacher said, "Dafa disciples' futures are certainly bright--they'll absolutely be bright." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.") There is no reason why we cannot effectively make good use of the time left to carry out the three things stipulated by Teacher. Time waits for no man!

The above is just my personal understanding .

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A fellow practitioner told me her experience when she was being held in a detention center:

When she was sent into a detention center, the prisoners fiercely asked her why she was detained, she answered with a smile, "Because I practice Falun Gong." Upon hearing that, all the prisoners pleasantly and surprisingly said, "Oh! You are also a Falun Gong practitioner." Then they pointed at a lady who appeared to be in her thirties and very kind (she later discovered that the woman was actually over 40-years-old), "She is also a Falun Gong practitioner!" From that moment, those prisoners started to protect them all the time: the police of the detention center viciously asked Wang, the head of the cell to search Dafa practitioner's clothes. As Wang loudly ordered her to take off her clothes for inspection, at the same time said to her with a low voice: "Don't be afraid. I am just pretending. You don't need to take off your clothes!" At night, the practitioner did not have anywhere to sleep, so the prisoners voluntarily squeezed together to leave a place for the practitioner. They did not show such consideration for the regular prisoners who came afterwards. That night, Wang said to Dafa practitioners: "If you were not Falun Gong practitioners, we would really mess you up." Another female prisoner who was under 20 years old said: "Actually, we should have known that she is a Falun Gong practitioner. She was smiling when she arrived. Only Falun Gong practitioners could come here with a smile!"

Later, Wang told other prisoners more than once, "I don't know what Falun Gong teaches, but I believe Falun Gong is good, because all the practitioners are good people. Not only are they good people, but everyone who practices is also healthy and happy. Falun Gong is really mysterious!"

Then she told the fellow practitioners how she learned about Falun Gong: "When I first came here, I didn't understand Falun Gong, as all my knowledge had come from television. Then an over 50-year-old Falun Gong practitioner came to our cell. In the beginning, I didn't talk to her, but just critically watched her. Gradually I found she was absolutely different from what the television claimed; she is a really good person! Because the things here are very expensive, other prisoners would hide their purchased necessities, and not let others use them. They even sneakily use other's daily necessities when no one is around, so they could save their own. However, she is not like this. Because she practices Falun Gong, her family members do not understand her and her children do not come to see her either. She spent all the money she had with her to buy daily necessities and left them out, allowing anyone to use them. When there was nothing left, she would rather not use it than take from others. Once, a Falun Gong practitioner came to see her and gave her 50 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China]. She spent it all on daily necessities again and left them out for public use. She never needs to be asked to do cleaning. According to the rules in the cell, newcomers need to do cleaning and washing. Since the first day she came she never stopped doing it, whether or not she was on duty. She never complained from the beginning to the end. At that time, I just felt she was great. Later, Falun Gong practitioners came one by one and everyone of them behaved so well. This made me believe that Falun Gong is really good!"

"Falun Gong is really mysterious! Before you came, there was an elder sister named Yang who was over 50 years old. She conducted a hunger strike from the first day she came in. On the 18^th day of her hunger strike, she took a shower and changed her clothes. In the beginning, we were very worried and offered to help her, but she insisted on taking care of herself. On the 22^nd day we began to worry for her safety, so we told the police that she could not move and then they agreed to release her. On the day she was released, we urged her to pretend she had no strength to avoid further detention by the police, but she walked out like a normal healthy person. This was the most mysterious thing I had witnessed in all my life: a 50-year-old woman walking out of jail in such a strong condition after conducting a hunger strike for 22 days!"

Wang pointed at prisoner Gu and said, "When she first came here, she had a nightmare every night and screamed loudly in her dreams. Since Dafa practitioners arrived, she gradually stopped having those nightmares."

Because these prisoners have a very positive understanding of Dafa, therefore they were able to accept it when fellow practitioners explained the truth to them. Guo was detained for selling fake cigarettes and alcohol. When a fellow practitioner told her the principles of Falun Gong, she regretfully said: "If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have done so. When I get out, I will conduct fair business. I won't do illegal things any more. In the past, I saw a person reading Zhuan Falun [The main book of Falun Gong] near my home, I did not know what it was at the time. When I get out, I will go find him; I want to learn Falun Gong too!" In the days following, she even started learning the exercises from the fellow practitioner.

Gu was detained for fighting. She told a Dafa practitioner that she often does irrational things when she becomes angry. For example, once she quarreled with her husband, so she grabbed a kitchen knife and slashed her own head, causing profuse bleeding. When a Dafa practitioner told her the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, and told her to treat others and herself with kindness, she said, "I understand now. I won't do these things again!"

A few days later, two Dafa practitioners started a hunger strike to protest the illegal persecution. From the 2^nd day, they did not let Dafa practitioners do any work. Sometimes Dafa practitioners did the cleaning, but when Wang saw this, she asked others to do the work and even blamed them for letting the practitioners do it in the first place.

On the morning of the 4^th day of the hunger strike, a prisoner accidentally discovered that the comforter that the Dafa practitioners were using was very cold. She said loudly, "They slept for a whole night and this comforter is still as cold as ice." All the prisoners discussed it among themselves and finally decided to ask the police to release the Falun Gong practitioners. They also asked that they allow prisoners to sleep with practitioners so they could warm them up with their body temperature.

On that day, they also told the police that Dafa practitioners had not eaten nor had they drunk anything for a week, thus their bodies were ice cold. The detention center did not respond. The next morning, they went to see the police again and were badly scolded by the police. They continued in the afternoon, and still could not move the police. But they did not give up and discussed at night and concluded, "We will continue to ask tomorrow." On the 3^rd day, they started to call out for the police, and made it known throughout the whole building that two Dafa practitioners were on a hunger strike for more than 10 days and could not move. At 5 p.m. that day the two Dafa practitioners were released.

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My brother had been instilled with Chinese government ideology when he was in the army, and mistakenly believed that all of the propaganda portrayed in the Chinese media was true. When he got the news that I was expelled from school for practicing Falun Gong, he asked for a leave of absence to come back home to visit me. I had not seen him in over a couple of years, and when he arrived back home I noticed that he had changed a lot. He had a bureaucratic air about him that was fake and empty, and he boasted a lot. His thoughts and opinions about Falun Gong were all shaped from the propaganda in the Chinese media saying that China is in a period of great prosperity now and the government is right to persecute Falun Gong. While he was home, he tried to "re-educate" me using some "internal evidence" that he got from the army to show me that the persecution of Falun Gong was correct and justified. Because my brother was deeply deceived by the propaganda and we could only spend a short time together, it was very difficult for me to change his narrow and negative opinions. In the end, he returned to the army without changing his mind.

Over six months later, when my brother retired from the army and returned home, he was still the same as before. However, because we had the opportunity to live together for a long time, he gradually began to see for himself my positive changes and the power of Dafa for changing people's hearts and minds. This, along with my gradually clarifying the truth to him, allowed him to change his negative opinions and enlighten [to the truth of the persecution]. He stopped criticizing me and became more and more understanding and supportive.

From then on, whenever my brother drove passengers (he was a taxi driver), he would clarify the truth about the persecution, such as so-called self-immolation. He clarified the truth from a non-practitioner's point of view, so it was easier for the passengers to accept. He also used his car to help other Dafa practitioners and I get around. All of his behavior completely changed and his kind deeds came from the bottom of his own heart.

One day, when the relative of a Falun Gong practitioner reported other practitioners to the police, both my brother and my sister (neither of them practice Falun Gong) were also reported and arrested. The policemen held them in separate rooms and tried to deceive and threaten them into exposing the whereabouts of Falun Gong practitioners. They tortured my brother and beat him badly. Under this extreme pressure, not only did he not betray other practitioners, but he also resisted their evil tricks. When they tried to force him to curse our Teacher, his righteous thoughts held up and he realized he should not curse Teacher Li under any situation. When he reprimanded them in an indirect way for what they were doing, the policemen felt something was wrong and asked him whom he was reprimanding, but my brother just kept silent and continued to reprimand them in an indirect way.

My sister stood firmly and unbendingly under the threats from the policemen and their head officer. When they threatened her and asked for information about other practitioners, she knew clearly in her mind what she should and should not say. She dealt with them wisely and did not fall into any of their traps. In the end, the head officer asked her to sign an "answer record," but after she read it over carefully, she refused to sign when she found that the words on the form were not her own. No matter how the evil police cursed and threatened my sister, she insisted not to sign. In the end, they could do nothing and finished their interrogation hastily.

Even though my sister doesn't practice Falun Gong, she helps practitioners when she can based on her own conditions. When other practitioners and I told her that what she has done will have a profound reward, she said calmly, "I offer assistance to practitioners not in order to get any reward, but because I feel it's a human being's duty. If I have the ability, I should do it naturally."

When I think about how wise and kindhearted my brother and sister have been, I feel very happy for them. Meanwhile, I also realize my own responsibility. I should do even better and be more righteous so that more people will be able to see the dignity and greatness of Dafa.

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The party committee in a certain village in Hebei Province hired a person specifically to tear down Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials. However, he soon received retribution and fell from the roof of his house while doing repair work. He was hospitalized. He has two school-age children and his family is very poor. Since he was hospitalized and unable to work, it was very difficult for him to support his family. Therefore the party committee called upon the villagers to donate money to help him during this hard time. However, very few people wanted to donate money. In contrast, Dafa practitioners in this village donated money to him, without regard to his past behavior of tearing down Dafa materials. The compassion of these Dafa practitioners moved the party committee and the villagers. The party committee specifically praised Dafa practitioners over the loudspeaker. From then on, no one in the village has ever torn down Dafa materials. The benevolent action of these Dafa practitioners harmonized Dafa, enabling the villagers to see the goodness of Dafa.

A Dafa practitioner who works in a big plant in northern China talked to the plant director about Dafa. The director said, "How wonderful it would be if everyone in China practiced Falun Gong!"

A Dafa practitioner in a northeastern China talked to his friend about Falun Gong. This friend said, "It won't be too long before Falun Gong is redressed. There is nothing wrong with personal belief. Jiang suppresses Falun Gong merely because he fears Falun Gong will threaten his power." He happily accepted the truth-clarification material the Dafa practitioner gave him.

(Clearwisdom.net) The news of Ding Lihong's death came leaving me in shock and disbelief. His continuously smiling, peaceful and kind face still remain with us. He always carried himself with a serene calmness, and his peaceful demeanor still lingers in our memories. His righteous thoughts and belief in Dafa and Teacher were always strong and steadfast. He once said to me: "I would never ever betray Dafa or Teacher." He said this with the great determination of a Buddha. He also said: "Oneself does not exist, everything is given to us by Dafa, the existence of oneself can only be found during the process of safeguarding Dafa." The following are some of his stories during his journey to assist Teacher in the Fa Rectification.

Ding Lihong went to Beijing to appeal four times and was illegally imprisoned numerous times.

On December 8, 1999, Ding Lihong went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. Many policemen staged layers of blockades outside the appeal office, and many practitioners were detained before they even got into the appeal office. However, he was able to go inside the appeal office, filled out the form and lodged his appeal. After his return, he was detained in the Beijiao Detention Center in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. At that time, the police confiscated a copy of Zhuan Falun. As a result, all the detained Dafa practitioners went on a hunger strike. Shocked and dismayed, the authorities hurriedly transferred all the detained practitioners to different detention centers in other counties. Ding Lihong was sent to the Shenze County Detention Center for the remainder of his term. Later he told others that holding a hunger strike was very painful, and it was the righteous belief in Dafa that had sustained him.

On February 4, 2000, his physical condition had not recovered from the hunger strike, and he and his wife (also Dafa practitioner) wanted to join the group exercise practice. His parents knew of their plans and tried to prevent them from going. They were able to get out of the building and into a taxi, heading towards the practice site. Later, he was illegally arrested by the police for "planning a group practice", and was detained 15 days in Gaocheng County. At that time his steadfast righteous thoughts stopped the evil from bothering him, and the persecutors did not even interrogate him.

In March 2000 during the "two conferences" [the National People's Delegation Conference and the Political Consultant Conference] period, he was illegally detained by his work unit (Shiziazhuang Railroad Engineering Section) for 15 days and had his job taken away. He was a train operator, but they then assigned him to be a janitor. They also withheld six months salary from him. Once, they only paid him three Yuan and thirty-five cents [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan] as his salary, yet he still worked diligently and made no complaints.

On May 13, 2000, he went to Tiananmen Square and did the sitting meditation. There was a vicious person nearby who reported him and shouted out "Falun Gong!" Unexpectedly, several plainclothes and uniformed policemen rushed over and started to beat up the person who was trying to report Ding Lihong. Only after some time passed did they realize their mistake. Later, Lihong's work unit took him back, and he was illegally detained in Yudong Detention Center in Shijiazhuang City for 13 days. The police ransacked his house and extorted 1500 Yuan from him. His work unit then detained him for another 10 days.

On July 20, 2000, he went to Tiananmen Square again and shouted "Falun Dafa is good" under the national flag. This time he was detained for 15 days in Yudong Detention Center.

From September of 2000 to the date that he was persecuted to death, he had done a great deal of truth clarifying work.

At the end of August 2000, Lihong was kidnapped while walking on the street by the police, and he refused to tell them his name. In order to resist the persecution, he was on a hunger strike all the time. The police tried to persuade him to take some food, but he said: "The life of a practitioner is very precious, and we cherish it very much. However, I definitely would not eat here. I am totally resisting this illegal arrest." He clarified the truth to the police all the way until the day before his release. He had not taken any food or water for over 28 days. At the end the prisoners respected him very much. There was a policeman who had never given any of his food to a prisoner, but he wanted to give Lihong the best food that he had. Later, when Ding Lihong shared his experience with practitioners, he calmly said: "When you only think about yourself, it is a kind of hardship; however, when you think of Dafa, this is magnificent."

During the Chinese New Year of 2002, the leader of his unit said: "His work is impeccable, and his attitude is excellent." However, they still forcibly kidnapped such a good person to the brainwashing center. The minute he was in the brainwashing center, he said: "I will cultivate to the end and there is no way you can change me." The two months of cruel and unbearable torture could not change him. His righteous thoughts and belief in Dafa was so strong and steadfast. He said, "I have never thought that I could not bear the hardship, and I would never betray Teacher and Dafa." The following article has more details on the events surrounding Ding Lihongs death: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/1/12/30798.html.

He seldom shed tears, but he cried when he saw those practitioners who had betrayed Dafa. He talked to them with tears in his eyes. Later, he said: "I have done my best to help them to awaken."

In the brainwashing class, he firmly believed that he could escape, and the 12-foot wall and iron gate meant nothing to him. Although there were 2 people following him closely 24 hours a day, he was able to break away from them and several times left the building. When things didn't have a good outcome, he would come back and look inside to find his shortcomings. During his final attempt to leave the camp, his heart was very pure. When he came to the side of the wall, he thought, "I am steadfast in my belief of Dafa and I should have this ability. Teacher, please help me." When he calmed his heart and stepped up to the three-foot tall platform, he was able to jump over the 12 foot wall, without even getting dirt on his clothes. He then got into a taxi and rejoined the Fa rectification efforts. Later, he told a practitioner that if he had not been able to escape, he would have continued on his hunger strike no matter what.

After he got out from brainwashing class on April 27, 2002, he continued to clarify the truth and do Dafa work. During that period of time, some practitioners who had left their homes to avoid persecution were caught by police one by one. He suggested to some practitioners that they should move their material sites. He said: "This is being responsible to the Fa, and it is not a matter of trust between practitioners." There was a material site that most likely had been closely watched. So, using their wisdom and righteous thoughts, he and the other practitioners were able to move out all the equipment and materials. This avoided a potentially huge loss.

Due to cruel torture and intense brainwashing, some practitioners could not endure and finally betrayed other practitioners. So practitioners became very cautious toward those who had gone astray and were released from the brainwashing class. Some practitioners even avoided any contact with them. However, whenever possible Lihong would go to help them. Whenever they needed him, he would use his wisdom to help them, even when it was quite dangerous. He said: "I cannot abandon my fellow practitioners just to protect myself." He would lend his help to non-practitioners and practitioners alike whenever possible. His colleagues were all happy to work with him, as he always thought of others first. Based on the Fa, he also did his best to help fellow practitioners without lecturing them. When practitioners fell he would help them to stand up; when practitioners could not pass their tribulation, he would help them to become steadfast. Many practitioners trusted him and liked to discuss their problems with him.

In late October of 2002, some practitioners in Shanxi Province were being kidnapped. Ding Lihong heard that some practitioners had not moved their material site. He was very concerned and went to Shanxi. He never returned.

Later we heard the news that he died while illegally held in detention. He did not leave anything behind except a wish that had not been fulfilled. His family and colleagues, especially his parents, are still misled by the vicious lies. His parents were deceived and driven by the vicious "610 office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] in Shijiazhuang, cooperating with his work unit to kidnap him and send him to the brainwashing class. All along he hoped that they could understand the truth. However, the wicked persecution created obstacles for him to return home. One time he had lingered around his house but eventually decided not to go inside. He also talked about his wish to clarify the truth to his classmates, but since he had to leave his home to avoid persecution, he never had an opportunity. These were his deepest regrets.

We hope that Dafa practitioners all over the world would call or write letters to clarify the truth to his family and work unit.

Ding Lihong's parents Ding Tonzhou, Zhang Shulou. Home address: Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang City, Jianming Xiaoqu 12#-1-303, (Postal Code: 050031)

Or mail letters to: Hebei Province Textile Engineering Design College, Cheng Yaping forward to Ding Tongzhou and Zhang Shulou. (Postal Code: 050000)

Home phone number: 86-311-5063140
Ding Lihong work unit: Shijiazhuang Railroad Engineering Section
Section Chief: Wang Xiaoping Telephone: 86-311-7922213
Secretary: Zheng Ming Telephone: 86-311-7922293
Assistant Secretary: Li Gexin Telephone: 86-311-7922693
Union Chairman: Geng Baoyang Telephone: 86-311-7924363
Security Section Chief: An Quanjun Telephone: 86-311-7922783
Plant Operation Director: Zhang Jiankao Telephone: 86-311-7924243
Plant Operation Chief Branch Secretary: Quo Ruijiang Telephone: 86-311-7922043

2003-1-13

(Clearwisdom.net)

Yang Yueli
No. 3 Brigade
Beijing Female Forced Labor Camp
Daxing County, Beijing 102609
PR China

Dear Mom,

Snowflakes are falling again. It is time to celebrate yet another Chinese New Year, traditionally an occasion for family reunions.

Mom, during this entire year, we were not even able to talk on the phone to each other. Last year, just as the first snow kissed Beijing, police arrested you. They didn't even allow you to write a word of farewell to us. Now more than one year has passed. I am afraid to imagine what kind of torture you might have endured in the forced labor camp, and how desolate my former home, that provided me with so many joyful memories, might have become after police raided it.

Mom, my friends told me that you were the bravest and the most selfless mother in the world. When police asked you to sign the "Pledge of Repentance" [In this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.], you refused with dignity, even though you understood that dark days of detention in a cell were forthcoming.

Now, I am far away at the other end of the world and am everyday bearing the torment of missing you. It gives me some feeling of relief to know that kind-hearted people are not forgetting our plight. You should know that the Foreign Minister of Canada wrote a letter to me expressing the Canadian government's concern for you and for thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who are now being persecuted. Ladies who I have never met before display your photo to collect signatures in support of you. Even in remote countries people display posters that tell your story in order to appeal for you. Newspapers and radio stations are carrying stories about you and are calling for justice. Now it is the time to celebrate the New Year. Looking back, I suddenly realize that I haven't yet said a word to express my gratitude to those who have helped us, those that I know, as well as those I have never met. However, as one who truly treasures compassion and helps to bring the brilliance of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance to more people, I fully understand this mission itself is the best reward I can give them.

It is New Year time now. Springtime is quietly approaching. Mom, this year I cannot even send you a card. Instead, I will write to the Clearwisdom.net website with all the words I wanted to say to you from my heart. Bless you and bless thousands that hold the faith of truth, compassion and forbearance. Bless all kind-hearted fellow Chinese.

Mom, we all await your return.

Xiao Dong
2003 Spring Festival
Toronto
January 27, 2003

Yang Zhendong
Toronto
Canada

(Clearwisdom.net)

This story took place before the crackdown on Falun Gong began. At the end of March 1999, one of my friends helped me to create a business that could possibly make me a lot of money. He asked me to go pickup the goods.

I had to take three different buses to get to where I was headed. I stumbled before I got on the first bus but I did not enlighten to this occurrence. I stumbled again when I switched over to the second bus, hurting my knees. Then I began to wonder if there could be something wrong with the goods. I was the last one who got off the bus when I made my last transfer to the third bus. I walked cautiously. However, I fell flat on the ground. My palms and knees really hurt and I could not move, almost as if I was paralyzed. The people around tried to help me get up but they could not. Suddenly, I realized that I was wrong. I should not be there. I once told Teacher that I would spread the Fa more if I was not so busy. But in this situation, I wanted to take advantage of the time to make money. I felt so ashamed. After I enlightened to this, I stood up.

One of the people who tried to help me was a strong man but he was not able to move my body. He stared at me strangely, and many people looked at me the same way. I told them, " I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Today I came here to do business that was not completely honest. My Master disallows me to do this. He made me stumble so that I would enlighten to this." Master said in Hongyin:

"Those who live for fame will have anger and hate all their lives,
Those who live for gain will not recognize their relatives;
Those who live for sentimentality create worries for themselves,
Fighting each other bitterly, making karma all life long.
Seeking no fame, leisure is gained,
Pursuing no gain, a man of benevolence and justice;
Moved by no sentimentality, a clean heart with few desires,
Cultivating oneself well, accruing virtue all one's life."

That strong man asked me, "Why wasn't I able to move you since I am so strong?" I replied with a smile, "I fell down three times today. This incident helped me to enlighten." He said anticipating me, "Otherwise you will go against your principles." I said, "Yes." He said, "Other people said that Falun Gong is amazing and I didn't believe it. But today I am convinced because I just witnessed what happened to you." The other people began to walk away while I spoke with the man.

I felt Master's mercy and salvation while I was on my way home on the bus. He not only took care of me but also the people around me.

2003-1-24

(Clearwisdom.net) Cai Zhigang, originally the deputy director of the Laser Research Institute at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou City, used to study abroad, and later returned to China. He didn't surrender to extensive pressure, and instead continued to steadfastly practice Falun Gong. At the beginning of this year, while he was on duty, Cai Zhigang was required to talk with some people, and in this way the evil deceived him into going to the brainwashing center.

Aunt Shi, a retired teacher from Guangzhou Fine Art Institute and Cai Zhigang's mother-in-law, was also kidnapped to the brainwashing center and suffered persecution there because she steadfastly cultivated Dafa.

Currently, both of them are detained in the Chatou Detention Center in Guangzhou City, in the so-called "Law Study Class," which is actually a place to persecute Dafa practitioners.

Fellow Dafa practitioners, let's send forth strong righteous thoughts to eliminate the remaining rotten demons in other dimensions which attempt to damage Dafa.

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhou Hua, 34, is the assistant director of the second English Studies and Research Section of the Foreign Language Department of the Harbin Industrial University. She was arrested at the end of 2000, and illegally sentenced to two years in a forced-labor camp. She is now illegally imprisoned at the Wanjia Forced-labor camp.

Ms. Gao Fengqin is 46 years old. Her home address is: Room #4, third floor, 5^th Unit, 1 Xuanxi Village. She is now imprisoned in Division Seven of the Wanjia Forced-labor Camp. Because of her firm belief in Falun Dafa, she has suffered severe persecution both physically and mentally, and now is covered with cuts and bruises.

Ms. Zhao Yalun is 55 years old. Her home address is: Room #1, Sixth Floor, First Unit, 47 Renhe Street. She is now detained at the Second Detention Center of Division Seven of the Wanjia Forced- labor camp.

Ms. Yuan Zhanxu is 51 years old. Her home address is: Room #2, Sixth Floor, 6^th Unit, Hetu Street. She is now detained in Cell 10 at the Second Detention Center of Division Seven of the Wanjia Forced- labor Camp. Her family members have not been allowed to visit her since last April when she was sent there.

Ms. Guo Hua is 44 years old. She lives in Daban Building, Yama Factory, Heping Police Station. She is now detained in Inner Mongolia with her daughter Sun Bo. Details of her situation are unknown.

Ms. Wu Yaqin is 43 years old. Her home address is: 587 Taigu Street. She is now imprisoned in the Seventh Team of the Wanjia Forced-labor Camp.

Ms. Wu Qiuyan was arrested on June 1, 2002, and she is now imprisoned at the Seventh Female Room of the Harbin Second Detention Center. Her home address is: Nangang District, Harbin.

Mr. Luo Li was arrested at home in December 2001. He was sentenced to two years in a forced-labor camp. He is now imprisoned at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. His home address is: Room #2, Fifth Floor, 8^th Unit, 34 Mulan Street, Nangang District, Harbin.

Mr. Liu Zhanhai was arrested in October 2001 and was sentenced to one year in a forced-labor camp. He has been imprisoned in Changlinzi Forced-labor Camp for a long time past the term of his sentence. His home address is: Room #2, Seventh Floor, 2nd Unit, Building 507, Keda Village, Nangang District, Harbin.

Jan. 27, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) The brainwashing center in Shijiazhuang City, the capital of Hebei Province, also called the "Law Education Center of the Capital of Hebei Province" is a den of evil. The head of the vicious criminals, Kong Fanyun, clamored publicly, "We're here to forcibly transform you, don't even try to reason with us. The labor camp is waiting for you if you don't reform." The center is completely isolated, and the ways of persecution are extremely vicious.

The brainwashing center authorities force every work unit to pay a so-called "training fee," the minimum being 12,000 Yuan [about two years worth of an average urban worker's salary in China] and also to assign two people to "assist the education" by monitoring the practitioner closely and reporting on them.

This is what happens on a daily basis. Except for the collaborators (former practitioners who have turned against Dafa under intense pressure), who are appointed by the officials to bombard the practitioners with lies, the practitioners are not allowed to see anyone. They have to stay in the same room for everything, including eating and washing. Even toilet use time is set. The practitioners are only allowed to use the toilet once every six hours, accompanied by two "assistants." At other times, a pail in the room is used. The practitioners are sometimes not allowed to sleep or close their eyes for several days, and they are forced to continuously listen to the government fabrications and propaganda.

Dafa practitioner Liu Lifeng, male, 30 years old, with a bachelor's degree, works at the Hebei Economy and Trade Committee. He was kidnapped and taken to the brainwashing center around October 1, 2002. Although the collaborators kept trying to brainwash him daily, he did not waver in his belief in Falun Dafa. He has held several hunger strikes to protest the mistreatment and has been persecuted for over three months so far.

Dafa practitioner Zhang Yun, a female prison guard from Luquan Prison, was kidnapped to the brainwashing center in early August 2002 by her work unit. When she first came to the center, the collaborators, at the instigation of the guards, did not permit her to sleep for six days and six nights. Both of her arms were pinched repeatedly, and they were full of bruises. One of her front teeth was broken due to the brutal beating. She suffered around-the-clock brainwashing five or six times, without being permitted to sleep. On December 24, 2002, at the No. 39 Interrogation Room of the brainwashing center's No. 2 Building, five male collaborators pushed her to the ground and poured a lot of liquor into her mouth. (Falun Gong practitioners do not drink alcohol.) They also put Master's picture on the ground and pushed her feet to step on the picture. Zhang Yun was so ill she couldn't wake up for the whole day on December 25. The persecution is still ongoing.

We hope fellow practitioners will do their best to expose the evil. We hope the practitioners in Heibei Province, especially in Shijiazhuang City, will send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil factors in other dimensions behind the brainwashing class. Dafa practitioners are one body. If we do well, the evils won't be able to run rampant.

January 27, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net) The Guangzhou "Law Education School" was established in 2001. It belongs to the authorities from the "610 Office" in Guangdong Province and is nothing but a brainwashing center that uses force in order to torture Dafa disciples, the kind that exists in every province or autonomous region. The training was organized in Beijing. Each center communicates with other similar facilities, exchanging methods for persecuting Dafa and Dafa disciples. The following are descriptions of the methods used in this brainwashing center.

They kidnap Dafa disciples and take them to a brainwashing center they call the "Law Education School," and force them to acknowledge that they are "students" in that school. They then say that "students" must obey the "school rules," which trick some people with an attachment of fear to write the "guarantee letter."

They draw two circles on the ground. One has the words, "Insisting on Falun Dafa's position," and the other has the words "The People's position." They let Dafa disciples choose. If some people choose the Dafa position, the security people will force them to admit guilt in front of the national emblem and have their photos taken at the same time.

They force Dafa disciples to copy vicious cursing and insulting words against Dafa. If practitioners refuse, they burn their hands with cigarettes and pull their hair out, one hair at a time as a form of punishment.

Method 4: They assign as so-called "homework," in the form of copying their twisted understanding of Falun Gong. They will not let the practitioners sleep if they do not follow these orders, and interrogate them, one by one. The wicked "school master" shouts hysterically at midnight, "Are you going to write or not?" Then the screaming and odor of burning flesh from the electric stun batons they use on practitioners comes out of that room.

Method 5: They ask Dafa disciples "What kind of organization is Falun Dafa?" If the reply is "Dafa is not an organization," the wicked people will say that since you have no organization then you can just write the "break up with Falun Dafa" statement.

Method 6: They told a mother who had a one-year-old child, "Your child will lose his mother because of you. Your parents will lose their daughter because of you. If you transform into something we want you to become, you will be able to go home. Why don't you transform? Aren't you being selfish?"

The bad people kidnap the good people and say good people are being selfish. Where is the justice?

There are additional methods, each of which is a treacherous and insidious trap. It took more than nine months after forcing, deceiving, and physically and mentally torturing Dafa disciples before these villains got the first set of a "guarantee letters," a "repentance letter," "exposure letter" and "break up letter." One practitioner could no longer bear the torture and wrote the four letters against his will in a very exhausted mental state. Even so, the person who did this wrote these few words after the last sentence, "The person who made this copy has a different opinion on its contents."

For the steadfast Dafa practitioners, the vicious people even forced them to tear up or step on Master's portrait [to force them to disrespect their Teacher], trying to destroy Dafa practitioners' belief by doing so. They also made a videotape to deceive others. When the practitioners were pushed down onto Master's portrait, they shouted in tears, "Master, I am sorry."

Fellow practitioners, let us send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil demons in other dimensions that control these people in the forced labor camps and brainwashing centers who persecute Dafa disciples. We will never let their plot to torment people succeed. These sins and crimes should no longer be allowed to continue.

January 25, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

[Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionateáreminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.]

1. During the first half of 2002, three Dafa practitioners came across each other at the farmer's market of Baise City, Guangxi Autonomous Region and exchanged some words. Police, led by Lu Qimao, a high-ranking official of the Baise Police Department, illegally arrested and detained them. Three days after the event, Lu died in a car accident. He was 59 years old at that time.

2. Shi Jiayi, of the Xiangyang police substation in Baise City, Guangxi Autonomous Region, actively participated in arresting and persecuting Dafa practitioners. In 2002, Shi himself was arrested because he had associated with criminal gangs and covered up their activities.

Jiang's regime has used lies to slander Falun Dafa. These lies have poisoned many people, including naive children. A fifth grader in a primary school in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was poisoned by the lies and was very hostile toward Falun Gong. One day in April, he and his cousin saw a flyer that contained the facts of the persecution against Dafa. He threw it to the ground, stepped on it and denounced it. His cousin tried to dissuade him but he wouldn't listen.

On the following day, one of the boy's teachers noticed that his face was a little out of shape. Later, the boy's mouth started to swell. In no time, his face became distorted. The teacher informed his parents right away. When the parents arrived, the pupil had fainted. He was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment and his family was required to spend more than 1000 Yuan before he was out of danger. His was the only case of the unexplained disease in his school.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Li Yueguo worked for the "610 Office"[An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] in Guangzong County, Hebei Province. He persecuted many Dafa practitioners. Later he suffered a debilitating illness and lost all conscious awareness, entering a comatose state.

Zhang Ruiqing, who also worked in the "610 Office," collaborated with Li Yueguo to team up with police to force Dafa practitioners to give up the practice. Zhang also kidnapped some Dafa practitioners. During the Party's 16^th Congress, Zhang went to Beijing to intercept Falun Gong practitioners going to the capital to appeal. One day after he came back as he was bicycling home, he crashed and injured his right leg. His leg still has not healed after a month, and he is able to walk only with a crutch. His medical expenses have been quite large.

Some elderly people who know about these incidents commented, "These two people here who persecuted Falun Gong have both received retribution!"

Qin Wanbo, former government officer in Liaoyun Town, used to persecute Dafa practitioners frequently, and also confiscated many Dafa books. He was injured in a car accident on November 29, 2002. He suffered a broken arm, and his face was scratched and bruised.

Feng Weizhang, former Director of the Armed Forces in Liaoyun , led others to Dafa practitioners' homes to arrest practitioners and confiscate Dafa books. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in August 2002, and his life is in grave danger.

Ma Fu, a policeman working in Liaoyun Police Station, often arrested and beat Dafa practitioners. On October 1, 2002, as he was walking home after getting drunk, he fell into a deep ditch by the side of the road, breaking several ribs.

Zhang Pengyun, a policeman in Nanbu County, had a long record of physically torturing Dafa disciples. One day in early 2001, he saw female Dafa practitioner He Juying reading a hand-written copy of Hongyin [a collection of Teacher's poems]. Zhang immediately confiscated the book and beat Juying brutally. Juying was then sent to the horrific Nanmusi Provincial Labor Camp for further abuse. Not long after that, Zhang Pengyun wrecked his car while driving home from a night of drinking. Both his legs were broken, and he has been unable to go to work for several months. It is said that since then Dafa disciples have clarified the truth to him, and Zhang now regrets his past deeds.

Wang Qiguo, the assistant director of Nanbu County Detention Center, actively participated in the persecution of Dafa and Dafa disciples. In July 2000, over 40 Dafa disciples were detained in that detention center, where they were forced to stand or kneel down for long periods, put into shackles, beaten, and abused in various other ways. On August 25, 2002, while driving, he lost control of his vehicle and it overturned. He was knocked unconscious. His wife was also injured. Wang's family had to borrow a large amount of money to pay for his emergency medical treatment. It is said that even the house they own is heavily mortgaged now. Currently, Wang can hardly walk, and is unable to care for himself.

(Clearwisdom.net)

The Shijiazhuang Detention Center in Hebei Province has never allowed clothes or daily necessities to be sent to Falun Dafa practitioners by their families. Recently the families of practitioners have been banned from sending cash, because the authorities claim that other articles have also been brought in. This means that Falun Dafa practitioners do not have a change of clothes or money to purchase daily items. They have to live on a daily diet of diluted porridge and a bun and suffer from constant hunger. We call for attention and support from people who value justice, both in China and abroad.

Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Yunfeng has been steadfast in practicing Falun Dafa. He was placed under unlawful custody after going to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in 2000. On January 4 of this year, Zhang was abducted from work. At the same time, police broke into the home of Dafa practitioner Sun and harassed him. The whereabouts of neither Zhang nor Sun is known at this time.

Time: Early November 2002

Location: A City in Guangxi

A: Wow! Isn't it strange? How come "camouflaged military personnel" are watching the gate at the Party school?

B: Oh, you must have not heard about it yet. There are four guards at the door. One is from the police department, one from the "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems], and two from the military. There are more people deployed at major intersections and passes.

A: What's this for? Is it something important?

B: A 'study session' is being held for Falun Gong practitioners to force them to give up their belief. Practitioners call this a "brainwashing class." These practitioners either have been abducted and brought here or have been deceived by the police into coming on their own. Many sleep on the desks in the classroom, guarded by military personnel. Also, someone from the same company at which the practitioner works must accompany him or her around the clock.

A: What about a citizen's freedom of belief? How come they have been held for "brainwashing?"

B: That's because Falun Gong acknowledges the existence of God, which isn't in agreement with the atheism of the Communist Party. Falun Gong practitioners believe that everyone should abide by Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. They also believe that doing good deeds or carrying out bad deeds is met with rewards or punishment respectively, and thus everyone should be a good person.

Falun Dafa practitioner Deng Yunhong from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province has been secretly and unlawfully handed a five-year prison term. Ms. Deng has already been sent to the Harbin Women's Prison.

Li Jianlin is a Falun Dafa practitioner who lives in the Chengsancun area of the Rang District in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He was abducted from work in late April 2002 by police officers in charge of his residential area. At the same time, his home was ransacked, and Falun Gong books and materials were found. He was then sent to the detention center and has remained in custody unlawfully. During his detention he has been transferred to several different facilities. Six months later, Mr. Li was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor "reeducation" and has already been sent to the Daqing Forced Labor Camp.

Liu Tongling is also a Falun Dafa practitioner living in the Chengsancun area of the Rang District in Daqing City. Ms. Liu was abducted on the morning of September 6, 2002. Her home was ransacked, and police officers manhandled her on the way to the Daqing City Detention Center, where she remained on a hunger strike in protest of the unlawful persecution. The guards incited other inmates to inhumanely torture and punish her. One month later, hardly able to walk due to leg injuries she had sustained, she was still sentenced to three years of forced labor "reeducation" and sent to the Harbin Rehabilitation Center for Drug Users. She was denied admission for failing the physical examination. Her family members know very well that Falun Dafa is good and have come to realize the evil nature of the Jiang's regime. They put all their efforts into securing Ms. Liu's release. After continued attempts by her family members, Ms. Liu walked out of the prison and returned home with honor and dignity.

To hold great passions and confidence in living is a kind of transcendent sincerity and generosity, and also a kind of maturity and wisdom in being able to face life as it is. As long as one is equipped with this attitude toward life, which is as light as the drifting clouds and as pleasant as the blossoming flowers, whatever difficulties or misfortunes we have will only serve as a stairway leading toward peaceful blessings.

Best wishes to you in your studies and life.

From a far away place,

Mom
Noon, November 24, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

• Solemn Declarations by Dafa Practitioners [1/16/2003]
• Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [1/22/2003]
• Solemn Declarations from Non-Practitioners [1/13/2003]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Dabei Prison in Liaoning Province has been brutally persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for a long time. The tortures practitioners must endure include beatings with electric batons, forcefully shaking their head from side to side, pinching their testes, heavily shackling their feet, forcing them to sit motionless on a narrow board for a long time, stripping them in freezing weather, force feeding and locking them in isolated cells. We call for everyone's support to stop the brutality and crimes happening in Dabei Prison in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

The last time I saw Wang Weiyu was in October 2002. He was forced to discontinue his schooling and had no stable place to live, but he was not affected by the hardship at all. He told me of his experience of validating Fa in Tiananmen Square and of the torture he suffered at the police station. It was from the Minghui website [Chinese version of Clearwisdom Net] that I read of his situation again. He is among the five secretly kidnapped students of Tsinghua University. I call for the immediate release of Wang Weiyu, and all detained and imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners in China, and for an end to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

My mother's sister is 83 years old. She has children and grandchildren. I have been abroad for sixteen years and hadn't called her. During the Christmas holiday, I got her phone number with my relatives' help and called her. My aunt did not have any education in school, and never learned to read, but she could understand what I told her about the truth of Falun Gong. She said, "My nephew, what you just said is not an ordinary thing. This is a very great thing. Your Teacher and you are coming to save us. Thank you. You are doing a great thing for our future." Later, she explained the facts about Dafa to her children and grandchildren. The entire family understands the truth now.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Editor's note: We have received a great number of New Year greetings to our most respected and revered Master from Falun Dafa practitioners around the world. They expressed they firmly believe in Falun Dafa and Master. They will continue to follow Master's teaching and do even better in studying the Fa well, clarifying the truth thoroughly and in a more refined way, and eliminate the evil factors in other dimension with righteous thoughts. Practitioners expressed that they would use their righteous thoughts and righteous actions to wish Master a Happy Chinese New Year! Practitioners also expressed their boundless appreciation and thankfulness to our benevolent Master for saving his disciples and all sentient beings. Due to our limited resources, here we only translate a representation.

Words in image: Wishing Master Has a Happy Chinese New Year

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(Clearwisdom.net) On the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day, some Falun Dafa practitioners from the United Kingdom attended performances held by the Chinese community in the City of York to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Although the organizers encountered some pressure from "some side", they still invited Dafa practitioners to join the performance after they reviewed files and pictures documenting practitioners' great performance and the prize they won during the Edinburgh International Art Festival last year. Wearing Chinese traditional costumes, practitioners performed dances that they choreographed on their own to display the Chinese traditional culture to the local residents. At the Falun Gong booth, practitioners also used brush pens to write the Chinese names for the local residents free of charge. The Chinese cultured displayed by Dafa practitioners deeply attracted local people.

(Clearwisdom.net) During each Chinese Lunar New Year, all Chinese communities in France will jointly hold a celebration parade in the 13^th district in Paris where Chinese people live in compact communities. The parade attracts tens of thousands of people to watch each year and so is it this year.

Approved by the Paris police, along the parade route, practitioners from France, Belgium and Taiwan distributed several thousands of Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials and balloons imprinted with words, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" in both Chinese and French to share the holiday cheerfulness with spectators.

Colorful balloons imprinted with words, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" in both Chinese and French can be seen everywhere.

(Clearwisdom.net) At the beginning of 2003, Belgian Dafa practitioners went to Chinatown in the famous port city of Antwerp to introduce Falun Dafa to the Chinese people.

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 31, 2003, from 4pm to 9pm, a New Year Celebration was held at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Dafa practitioners prepared all kinds of truth-clarifying information and materials, photos, computers, TV screens and banners and conducted a thorough truth-clarification to the attending Chinese people of Korean nationality. Around 2 pm, Chinese people of Korean nationality streamed into the Heping auditorium of Kyung Hee University. The practitioners had waited at main entrances; some handed out flyers, some showed the video, entitled, "Truth of 'Tiananmen Self --immolation Incident'," some did the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts and some others explained the facts to people viewing the photo exhibition. Through this activity, we have effectively helped many precious Chinese people learn about the truth.

(Clearwisdom.net) On February 2, 2003, it was warm and sunny, and the sky was blue and clear. Vietnamese emigrants in the United States held a grand New Year parade in the City of San Jose in Silicon Valley, California. An estimated 100,000 people watched the parade. Dafa practitioners' procession was especially eye-catching, and their exercises demonstration and dance performance won a round of warm applause.

We were deeply moved while seeing people who are awakening show their appreciation for Falun Dafa. We hope all kind-hearted people to have a beautiful future!

Script:

Hello, and welcome to the FGM TV weekly news review on January 28, 2003

I'm Susan Mitchell.

• 559 Falun Gong practitioners are confirmed to have died from torture while in custody, with 2 death reports received in the last week. Reliable sources inside China, however, put the actual death count in the thousands.
• In the last 7 days, torture reports have come in from 14 provinces, including the cities of Dalian, Beijing and Shenyang.
• 652 people declared as null and void, statements saying they will give up Falun Gong that were made while undergoing torture as they were the result of extreme coercion. They say they will continue practicing Falun Gong.

• The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong issues its Founding Statement.

• Reports of the torture of Falun Gong practitioners
• An Australian woman is kidnapped by police while visiting her parents in China
• A 71-year-old Hong Kong senior is sentenced to 7 years in Burma for holding up a small banner with the Chinese characters for Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and...
• Falun Gong meets the world -- in Brazil.

On January 20, 2003, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong issued it's Founding Statement. FGMtv was in Boston when news of the Organization was introduced at a media conference there.

Whereas Jiang Zemin uses the entire state apparatus and all national resources to commit Genocide by means of "defaming their reputations, bankrupting them financially, and destroying them physically," the World Organization is formed specifically "to investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions, organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong; to bring such investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and (no matter how) deep ... to full closure; to exercise fundamental principles of humanity; and to restore and uphold justice in society."

• The persecution of Falun Gong in China has been going on for almost four years.
• This week, we received a report of ongoing savage torture in Wuyuan Forced Labor Camp in Inner Mongolia. It said, in part, that since September, 2000, the camp has been illegally detaining large numbers of Falun Dafa practitioners.
• On December 6, 2001, police officer Mu Jianfeng organized a brutal torture session.
• Seven Falun Dafa practitioners were taken to a police dormitory on the first floor where more than eleven policemen attacked them with high voltage electric batons, leather belts, fists, and heavy boots.
• Zhang Ruitong's legs were broken; the nerves in his spinal cord and his internal organs were also severely injured. His whole body was paralyzed for nearly a month. Liang Baochi was also severely injured. The other five practitioners were covered with blood and their faces were beaten beyond recognition.
• "In the past several hundreds of bloody days and nights," the report stated, "every Falun Dafa practitioner detained in the labor camp has faced various cruel tortures. They have remained determined and completely upright in their belief in the Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance of Falun Dafa."

Rescue Our Families Walk in New York City's Chinatown

• On January 18, practitioners walked through New York's Chinatown as part of the global "Rescue Our Families" initiative. They demonstrated Falun Gong exercises in Columbus and Sword Parks, distributed flyers and held a press conference to bring attention to the Jiang regime's continued persecution in China.

• Hong Kong resident and Falun Dafa practitioner, 71 year old Mr. Rongyuan Chen was visiting family members in Burma one year ago.
• When Mr. Chen heard that Jiang Zemin was to visit the capital, Rangoon, he unfurled a small banner with the Chinese characters for Truth-Compassion-Forbearance as he stood on the roadside to the airport on Dec. 12, 2001.
• Under heavy pressure from the Chinese embassy, the Burmese government arrested Mr. Chen. We have learned that he has been sentenced to 7 years in prison during a secret trial where he was allowed no lawyer or representation of any kind.

• On January 17, 2003, 34-year-old Nancy Chen and her six-year-old daughter arrived in China for a visit to Nancy's parents.
• According to friends in Australia, Ms. Chen left her daughter with her mother while she visited friends on Monday, January 20th.
• Wednesday morning, Nancy phoned her mother to say she had been kidnapped.
• At the time of writing, despite requests, and counter to international law, Chinese authorities have not yet provided the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs with any information about Ms. Chen.
• Falun Gong Meets the World -- In Brazil
• Practitioners from Canada and the United States joined a Brazilian practitioner in introducing Falun Dafa and clarifying the truth at the World Education Forum (January 19-22, 2003) and the World Social Forum (January 23-28, 2003) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• About 100,000 people were expected to attend, including 30,000 delegates from 5,500 organizations in 126 countries.

• Six members of Israel's governing body, the Knesset, have signed a petition for the release of the sister of an Israeli practitioner.
• Ms. Wei Xiong, sister of Mr. Zion Xiong, has been detained in a forced labor camp for more than a year. Her "crime" was to hand for handing out flyers in Beijing revealing the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong.
• She is reported to be forced to work without pay making products for export.
• Mr. Avraham Burg, Chairman of the Knesset, also sent a letter expressing his support for Falun Gong.

• Falun Dafa practitioners in Great Britain were invited to perform at a Chinese students' New Year celebration party. Among the 600 guests were students, alumnae, family and friends, as well as Chinese officials. After the event, many people took information revealing the truth about the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

• On January 13, the Judge made a decision in the ongoing Canadian Civil Liberties lawsuit of Falun Gong versus Les Presses Chinoises. Les Presses Chinoises, you'll remember, is the a Chinese language newspaper that mouths Chinese propaganda in has been accused of defaming Falun Gong and inciting hatred. The defendants made a motion to have the case dismissed on the grounds that Falun Gong did not have a legal interest to sue. Quebec Judge William Fraiberg dismissed the motion. He found that the case had sufficient merit to justify a full trial, which is set for November 10th to 25th, 2003.
• From December 2001 to February 2002, the Quebec Superior Court reiterated a safeguard order 3 times, each time with stricter restrictions, prohibiting the paper from publishing extreme hate propaganda. The paper ignores the orders and continues to publish articles to incite hatred. Since the Chinese government does not follow its own laws, it is no surprise, although disappointing, that a Chinese paper would ignore the law here.

• Practitioners in Italy live far from each other, so it is not easy for them to meet regularly. Also, because of language differences, communication between Chinese and westerners is quite difficult. In a sincere attempt to overcome all these barriers the first formal Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held recently in Italy. The Italians were joined by two practitioners from Germany, and everyone agreed the event was so successful that they would definitely do it again in future.

• Jiasheng Jian and Yuming Duan from the police section of Hefei City No. 4 Railway Bureau had participated in the persecution of Dafa practitioners. In the same year the two died of blood cancer and lung cancer, respectively.
• Earlier this month, Mr. Zhishan Liu, an employee from the Nu'erhe Textile Factory in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province tried to capture some Dafa practitioners. They were distributing materials exposing the Jiang regime's false propaganda about Falun Gong. Mr. Liu slipped and fell on some ice, breaking several of his ribs. and suffered his karmic retribution.

• It's the 19th of January 2003 and today marks the beginning of the Chinese and Vietnamese New Year celebrations here in Richmond, Victoria in Australia.
• The festivities are in full swing and people have come from all across Melbourne to join the celebrations.

• At times the air was filled with the sound of the traditional Chinese dragon performances. Seemingly tireless they brought vibrant color to Victoria Street Richmond.

• One attraction that definitely captured the crowds attention was the demonstration of the meditation exercises by the Falun Dafa practitioners.
• Deeply embedded in Chinese culture, this ancient form of Qigong practice filled the air with peace and harmony.

• It was clearly evident how Falun Dafa had brought together many people from diverse backgrounds and ages, all of whom enjoyed participating in the new year celebrations.

• A practitioner's neighbor Xiao Li was in a car accident. The car was totally destroyed and the driver hospitalized for emergency treatment.
• The people who witnessed the accident thought that nobody could possibly live through it. Then Xiao Li and her coworker crawled out from the car with only minor injures.
• Xiao Li tells people, "I survived such a horrible accident because the gods are watching me. I witnessed for myself the saying that 'Good is rewarded with good and evil meets with evil.' I believe in the great power of Falun Dafa more than ever."

• On January 5th 2003, many people were finally able to hear the song written by Falun Dafa practitioners for the public, which has been very seldom heard in Mainland China. The words, "Falun Dafa is good, Falun Dafa is good, Falun Dafa is the righteous law, and the Buddha-light illuminates everywhere," rang out.
• The singer was a gentleman about 30 years of age. His feet were shackled, and he sang while he walked. He was closely followed by a couple of policemen and security guards, but they did not interrupt him. Starting from the gate of the hospital and continuing to the main entrance, the high stairs became a theatre for the dozens of cab drivers, other patients, and their visiting relatives who were present.
• He walked slowly and sang continuously, loudly and clearly while walking slowly from the main gate to the square almost 100 meters away, where a police car was waiting. People listened quietly. Some stopped walking, some looked surprised, and some shocked--looks that quickly changed to admiration.
• It has been confirmed that this practitioner was released unconditionally a couple of days later.