Issued by Clearwisdom Net

The second session of  United Nations Human Rights Council was held in Geneva on September 18, 2006. The theme of the session was the annual reports presented by Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations. Yakin Erturk, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women presented her annual report on September 20. The written part of the annual report contains urgent appeals by Ms. Erturk and Special Rapporteur on "Freedom of Speech" and Working Group on "Arbitrary Detention" regarding the Singapore authorities' illegal detention of Singapore Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Ng Chye Huey and Ms. Cheng Lu Jin in April last year.

During the discussion session after the special rapporteur's report, Ms. Ng Chye Huey, who came from Singapore, made a speech, expressing her appreciation for the special rapporteur's help. In her speech, she briefly introduced the persecution she has been subjected to in Singapore. She said that the Singapore government discriminates and persecutes Falun Gong practitioners under the coercion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She was force-fed when she was on a protest hunger strike in the Singapore prison.

She also said that after the meeting, and when she returned to Singapore, she will face lawsuits on more charges trumped up against her. She hopes that the Singapore government will no longer do things against their conscience just to appease the CCP. Her speech exceeded the two-minute time limit, but the chairperson of the meeting did not stop her. She finished all that she had prepared to talk about. The whole audience was very quiet, listening to an ordinary woman telling of the persecution imposed upon her in Singapore.

Ms. Ng Chye Huey is a Singaporean Falun Gong practitioner. With an intention of speaking some fair words for Falun Gong in 2000, she wrote a letter to the Chinese Government, and took a plane to go to Beijing's Tiananmen Square in China. When she gave the letter to a police officer there, she was arrested, and all the money she brought with her was confiscated. She was then deported. During that time, she saw the police beat local Falun Gong practitioners. She made up her mind to let all Singapore people learn about the truth after she returned to Singapore. She has been persistently doing so during the past seven years.

Ms. Ng Chye Huey believed that Singapore was a free and democratic country, and never expected that the Singapore government would create all kinds of difficulties and even persecute her in order to curry favor with the CCP. In 2001, she was arrested and charged in court for participating in a candlelight vigil mourning Falun Gong practitioners who had died as a result of the persecution by the CCP in MacRitchie Park. The charge against her was "illegal assembly." In 2004, she was once again charged in court by the police for distributing materials informing the public about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China in Esplanade Park. The charge against her this time was "assembly without permit." She was then found guilty, but there were many serious loopholes in the evidence. She was immediately sent to prison after the verdict was announced. She held a hunger strike to protest the unfair treatment against her, and was tied to a metal bed to be force-fed. In July 2006, the police charged her in court again with four charges, including "harassment by displaying insulting writings" and "assembly without permit." The charge of "harassment by displaying insulting writings," was for meditating outside the Chinese Embassy in Singapore to protest the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, while displaying a banner behind her. The police came and arrested her. The writing on the banner that was claimed to be insulting said, "Hunger Strike on July 20 in Protest of the CCP's Inhuman Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners."

To prove that the content of the banner is factually correct, and not an insulting statement, the defense counsel provided with the court with the United Nations Human Rights Report, but the court refused to accept it. The lawyer appealed to the High Court, but was rejected. The lawyer then appealed to the Court of Appeals, and the hearing is scheduled for September 25.

Falun Gong practitioners' lawyer Mr. Ravi had planned to take part in the human rights report meetings to clarify the true situation of the Falun Gong lawsuits, so that the United Nations will learn that the Singapore legal system is extremely unjust. He also wanted to let the UN know that he himself has been under surveillance and threatened by the government. But on the morning when he was about to leave, the police unreasonably arrested him and sent him to a mental hospital. They attempted to stop him from continuing defending on behalf of Falun Gong with the excuse that he has mental problems. He was thereby unable to present himself at the United Nations meetings.

Ms. Ng Chye Huey hopes that through the UN human rights meetings, more countries will pay attention to the discrimination and persecution imposed upon Falun Gong practitioners in China and Singapore. Under pressure from public opinion of the international community, she hopes the Singapore government will withdraw all charges against Falun Gong practitioners as soon as possible, and resume Falun Gong practitioners' rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion enshrined in the Constitution.

Since July this year, a number of Malaysia Falun Gong practitioners have been questioned and monitored at the Singapore border, and some have even been denied entry into Singapore. Therefore, Malaysia Falun Gong practitioners went to the Singapore Highest Commissioner’s Office on September 19, 2006 to protest the unjust treatment of Falun Gong practitioners imposed upon by the Singapore government. They also went to the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office to deliver letters, calling on the government to pay attention to this issue.

A Falun Gong spokesperson read a press statement introducing how several Falun Gong practitioners were denied entry into Singapore. He revealed that two practitioners from Johor tried to enter Singapore on September 12, but the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoint Authorities (ICA) denied their entry without giving any reason. This was the second time that both of them were denied entry.

In August, the two Falun Gong practitioners from Johor tried to transfer to a plane in Singapore’s Changyi International Airport, but were denied entry into Singapore.

Mr. Lim from Johor went to Singapore’s Changyi International Airport to take a plane heading for Narita Airport in Japan. There was no problem on his trip to Japan, but when he returned from Japan, Singapore Customs Office refused to let Mr. Lim enter Singapore. Officials told him to buy another air ticket to Malaysia’s International Airport. Customs officials were unable to give any explanation why Mr. Lim had no problem flying to Japan from the Singapore airport but was denied re-entry upon his return.

A practitioner said that another practitioner from Johor took the plane at Singapore’s Changyi Airport to travel abroad in August. Just like Mr. Lim, he was denied re-entry into Singapore without being given any reason. As a result, his ticket worth several thousand dollars in Malaysian currency became invalid and the money spent on the unused ticket was not returned.

A practitioner couple went to Singapore to attend their son’s commencement at his university, but the security staff of the university followed and videotaped them. This should have had nothing to do with Falun Gong activities, but the couple was monitored because they are both Falun Gong practitioners.

Practitioners believed that the Singapore government may be expanding the scope of persecution against Falun Gong, including denying Malaysia Falun Gong practitioners’ entry into Singapore. Singapore practitioners have appealed to the United Nations regarding the above-mentioned incidents.

The practitioner said that Singapore imposed a series of interfering activities against local practitioners, including several unfair charges against local Falun Gong practitioners and expulsion of Chinese practitioners who had legal resident status in Singapore.

Malaysia practitioners called on the Singapore government to treat Falun Gong practitioners fairly, stop discriminating against Falun Gong, drop the unfair charges against practitioners, and respect overseas practitioners’ freedom of belief and action.

Bo Xilai, a close adherent of Jiang Zemin's Falun Gong persecution policies, has been sued in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Russia, Australia, Korea, Spain and other countries around the world in the past two years. During his visit to Sweden on September 15, 2006, Bo was sued for torture and murder. According to the Macau government, Bo Xilai will attend the ministerial meeting at the Economic Co-operation Forum between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries on September 24-25. To expose Bo's crimes, twelve Falun Gong practitioners delivered an open letter to the Liaison Office at 9:00 a.m. on September 20.

When Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the Liaison Office, the front door was guarded by twenty Liaison Office employees and plainclothes police. It was a tense atmosphere. Under everyone's close attention, Falun Gong practitioners read aloud their protest letter exposing the crimes of Bo Xilai, and submitted the letter to a representative of the Liaison Office.

The open letter pointed out that at his former position as Liaoning Provincial governor, Bo spent one billion yuan on jail renovations. More then half of it went to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where eighteen female Falun Gong practitioners were stripped naked and thrown into prison cells with male criminals, who raped the women. The international community was shocked upon leaning of the incident. Both heaven and humans were enraged. Other labor camps in Liaoning Province, including Dabei Jail, Zhangshi Labor Camp, Longshan Labor Camp and Dalian Labor Camp, also use cruel methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioners plan to continue their protest during Bo's visit to Macau, to clarify the true story of Falun Gong to all circles of society, and to tell the people in Macau and tourists about the cruel persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party. They are striving to awaken people's conscience and stop these unprecedented and most evil anti-human crimes.

On September 8 and 9, 2006, the EU-China summit was held in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. Thirty six heads of state from Asian and European countries, together with over two thousand journalists, were present at the summit. Falun Gong practitioners from thirteen countries in Europe and two Nordic countries also gathered in Helsinki to expose the unprecedented atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist regime against Falun Gong practitioners in China. At the Helsinki train station and Esplanade Park, Falun Gong practitioners organized the live enactment and poster displays of the regime’s organ harvesting from living people, and the torture methods used in its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They appealed to all governments and people to help end the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.

During the EU-China summit, practitioners expose the CCP atrocities near Helsinki train station

Reenactment exposing the CCP atrocities of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners

Signing to support Falun Gong practitioners in protesting the persecution

At 11:00am on September 8, Falun Gong practitioners who just finished their protest at the Chinese Embassy came to the Helsinki train station to set up an exhibition. Finnish Member of Parliament and Chairwoman of the Green Party Tarja Cronberg came to the site. She talked warmly to practitioners and said that she has seen the peaceful efforts of Falun Gong practitioners and supports practitioners’ actions in stopping the persecution. Practitioners thanked her for her support.

In Esplanade Park, the peaceful and beautiful demonstration of Falun Gong exercises attracted the attention of tourists and security police. It formed a great contrast to the live enactment of the CCP organ harvesting from living people and torture against Falun Gong practitioners. Many people raised questions including "Why does the Chinese Communist regime want to suppress and persecute such beautiful exercises?" and "What could we do to help you?" Practitioners introduced the editorial of the Epoch Times Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to them and told people that by reading the Nine Commentaries they will learn the evil nature of the Communist Party and know the reasons behind the persecution. The biggest help is telling the people around you, your MP, government officials, and the media about the on-going brutal persecution of the Falun Gong in China. Many people said they would do so.