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10. The Global Reach of the Campaign
10.1 Public Defamation of Falun Gong by Chinese Officials
Case 1
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing attacks Falun Gong in a
U.S. business symposium
Location of incident: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Description:
The Chinese Ambassador Li Zhaoxing attended a symposium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The symposium focused on “Politics of Doing Business in China”. During the lunch break, Ambassador Li shocked his guests by speaking out against Falun Gong during his speech; in a symposium fully dedicated to Sino-US trade. He accused Falun Gong of infringing on other people’s basic rights and recited other party propaganda.
In the following question-answer period, one practitioner commented: “Mr. Ambassador, nowhere in Falun Gong books can you find a prohibition against taking medicine. Besides, it is a tough call whether those 1400 people are truly Falun gong practitioners. However, the Chinese government has never mentioned a single word about the fact that millions of people have attained health and got rid of their illness through practicing Falun gong.” A female reporter, holding a picture showing Falun Gong practitioners’ being tortured, asked the Ambassador:” What about this? How do you explain it”. The Ambassador told her:” These are totally fabricated. Don’t believe them”.
Case 2
Chinese president personally labels Falun Gong as “evil”.
Date of report: October 25, 1999
Source of news: Xinhua News Agency
Location of incident: France
Description:
According to Xinhua News Agency, French newspaper Le Figaro interviewed Chinese President Jiang Zemin before his official visit to France. Jiang referred to Falun Gong as an " evil cult" during the interview. [Five days later, the so-called “cult law” was rushed through the Chinese legislature.]
Case 3
Date of report: September 12, 1999
Source of news: AP News
Title: Jiang gives Clinton book on banned meditation group
Abstract:
In Auckland, New Zealand, as China and the United States sought to mend recently damaged ties, President Jiang Zemin gave President Clinton an unusual gift: a book defending China’s ban on a popular meditation sect. During their hour long summit Saturday, Jiang handed Clinton a book purporting to expose the crimes committed by Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong, the popular group that China’s communist government outlawed in July.
Titled “Li Hongzhi and His ‘Falun Gong:’ Deceiving the Public and Ruining Lives,” the book’s 150 pages in English is a relentless barrage of propaganda from China’s entirely state-run media. Far from an academic exercise, Jiang’s gift seemed intended to head off a new human rights dispute.
10.2 Chinese Interference and Harassment to Independent Journalists
Case 1
Beijing media plot uncovered
Source of news: The Globe and Mail
Title: Beijing media plot uncovered in Canada
The Globe and Mail in Canada, reported a typical case on February 9, 2000. “Federal counterintelligence officers (of Canada) say they uncovered a well-financed Chinese government plot ,intended to muzzle criticism of Beijing’s human-rights recording Canada’s Chinese-language news media, in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The plot, involving proxy investors trying to buy control of Chinese-language media outlets, appears to have had little success, judging by the independent coverage in most of those newspapers and broadcasters, counterintelligence sources said. Nevertheless, the officers said wiretaps and informants revealed a detailed and worrisome picture of a foreign power trying secretly to manipulate political debate among Canadians of Chinese heritage.
Case 2
More harassment during the crackdown in Tiananmen on Chinese New Year
Source of news: AFP
Title: Chinese police crackdown on Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square
AFP reported on February 5, 2000: “Police screamed at tourists and families of Chinese enjoying the new year to stay away from their activities and demanded they hand over any film of the arrests, which included violent kicking, punching and shoving. Foreign press photographers were threatened with arrest if they did not leave the square immediately.”
Case 3
Hong Kong human rights telephone and fax lines jammed by China
Source of news: Reuters
Title: Hong Kong human rights group says lines jammed by China
Reuters (Hong Kong, Dec 16, 1999): On December 3, 1999 that “ ‘China’s State Security Bureau has recently been interfering with the telephone and fax lines and pager of the information center non-stop 24 hours a day, ’ Frank Lu, the founder of the Information Center of Human Rights & Democratic Movement in China, said in a statement ” “He said the center’s telephone and fax had each been receiving about 100 crank calls daily since May, rising to 1,000 since late October when it started reporting on Beijing’s crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement. ”
“Lu told Reuters frequent calls to his pager showed a number in Guangzhou in southern China that was permanently busy when he tried it. Lu said that he had tracked the Guangzhou number to a person with connections to the State Security Bureau. ”
“The information center collects stories about the abuse of human rights in China and releases them to the media, including international news agencies whose articles are often picked up by newspapers all over the world. ” “ ‘The authorities do not want to let China’s negative news appear in overseas press, which will in turn be spread back to Mainland China, ’ Lu’s statement said. ”
Case 4
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in China - A typical case exposed
Source of news: Reuters
Title: Foreign journalists protest “harassment” in China
Reuters (Beijing, Nov. 10, 1999): On November 10, 1999 that “Journalists from a number of news organizations, including Reuters, the New York Times and the Associated Press, were questioned at length by police, obliged to sign a confession of wrongdoing and had their work and residence papers temporarily confiscated. ”
“The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China issued a protest on Wednesday (Nov. 10, 1999) against what it called official ‘intimidation and harassment’ linked to coverage of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. ”
“ ‘Our members have been followed, detained, interrogated and threatened, ’ said a letter sent to the Foreign Ministry and the cabinet spokesman. ” “Several of those reporters are now under heavy police surveillance. ‘We find this worrisome and unacceptable, ’ the letter said. ‘Such harassment is completely out of line with international practice, ’ it said. ‘It impedes our legitimate journalistic work and violates the private lives of our members and their families. ’ ”
“The letter complained of interference with television satellite transmissions - which must be routed through China Central Television - and delays in shipping video tapes. It argued that foreign journalists had a duty to report on all sides of the Falun Gong story. ”
“Security forces routinely tail foreign correspondents in Beijing, and television satellite transmissions are blocked from time to time. Much of this is connected to coverage of China’s pro-democracy movement. ”
This case was also reported by other news sources such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and AFP.
Case 5
Chinese authorities warning journalists from international news organizations to stop reporting on the Falun Gong spiritual movement
Victims: Foreign journalists in China
Description:
ABC News November 11, 1999, “Chinese authorities have been warning journalists from international news organizations to stop reporting on the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The Foreign Ministry reportedly called in representatives from Reuters on Wednesday, The Associated Press and AP Television today, and has asked to speak with CNN on Friday and The New York Times on Saturday.”
Case 6
Journalist were threatened, detained and taken away working permit because of reporting the news of Falun Gong
Victims: Foreign journalists in Beijing
Description:
October 28, Beijing. Although being intensely monitored, about 36 Falun Gong practitioners were able to invite some foreign reporters to attend a secret news release conference. It was reported that AP, Reuters, AFP, New York Times and other news agencies attended the press conference. This courageous act of Falun Gong practitioners has been widely reported internationally.
According to Associated Press, November 2, 1999. “Police in Beijing questioned at least five foreign reporters who attended a clandestinely held Falun Gong news conference last week. Police took away journalism and residence permits required for working in China. At least one reporter was threatened with unspecified consequences if he contacts Falun Gong members again.”
Case 7
China manipulates international news outlets
Source of News: AP
Abstract:
China requested U.N. Correspondents Association not to host Falun Gong.
The Associate Press reported on Oct. 6, 1999 that: “Erol Avdovic, president of the U.N. Correspondents Association, said the press spokesman at China’s U.N. Mission phoned him to ask whether the event could be postponed or canceled. He refused, saying the association, founded in 1948, adheres to the principle of free expression.” “Despite an unofficial request from China, the United Nations Correspondents Association refused to cancel or delay an invitation Wednesday to the Falun Gong spiritual movement which Beijing banned in July. ” “Two Falun Gong practitioners held a news conference to highlight a new media campaign to try to get China to lift the ban and to show why tens of millions of people worldwide have chosen to follow its teachings.”
Case 8
Intimidation of local journalists
Location of incident: A banquette in Atlanta, United States
Description:
Intimidation of local journalists on September 10, 1999, the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Li Zhaoxing, appeared in a banquette in Atlanta to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of communist China. After the dinner, two Falun Gong practitioners presented a letter to the Ambassador’s table to ask him to pass to the Chinese government. Several journalists of local Chinese newspapers took photos of the scene. Ambassador and his entourage immediately attempted to intimidate the journalists angrily and used harsh words to prevent them from reporting the event. At least two of the newspapers, including the World Journal, received intimidating faxes or phone calls from the Chinese Embassy after the event. The Atlanta Chinese Professionals Association, who organized the banquette, was instructed to influence the local media not to report the event.
Several similar cases occurred in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Due to pressure from Chinese officials many local Chinese newspapers were unwilling to carry pro-Falun Gong articles or even paid ads for Falun Gong classes.
10.3 Western Falun Gong Web Sites Hacked
Case 1
The Attack on the Falun Dafa U.S. Web Site (www.falunusa.net)
Location of incident: Maryland, United States
Description:
Bob McWee runs www.falunusa.net. His site received a denial-of-service attack. The attacker sends repeated connection requests to the server from phony addresses. Because the addresses were false, his servers were unable to respond and the flood of requests tied up his server, preventing it from responding to valid requests. This resulted in no one being able to access his Web site and the server continually crashed. His site was down from July 21 through July 23, until he blocked the attacks. One of the return addresses the attackers used happened to be the IP address of a U.S. Department of Transportation server. As a result, the Falun Gong sites tried to send acknowledgement messages to the DOT server. When DOT officials saw the unauthorized messages coming from sites such as www.falunusa.net, www.falundafa.ca and www.falundafa.org, it contacted the operators of the sites to find out why they were being sent. Bill Adams, a spokesperson for the Transportation Department, says the department won’t answer questions or confirm what happened “for security reasons.”
Case 2
The Attack on the Falun Dafa Canada Web Site (www.falundafa.ca)
Location of incident: Toronto, Canada
Description:
The Falun Dafa Canada Web Site (www.falundafa.ca) was attacked many times since July 20, 1999. Identified by the IP address, most of the hackers were determined to be from mainland China. Even the ISP’s web servers were destroyed a few times. It had to be switched to another ISP (Internet Server Provider, Phone No. 905-528-4638) whom had better prevent technology to prevent unwanted break-ins and attacks. Even for the new ISP, there was one hacker (from China) that continued to attack this web site. About 60 hours were spent recovering from the damage done to this web site. The web users in China could not access all the Falun Dafa web sites through Internet.
Case 3
The Attack on the Falun Dafa Europe Web Site (www.yuanming.org.uk)
Location of incident: Ireland
Description:
Four days after (July 23-24, 1999) the Falun Dafa Europe Web Site (www.yuanming.org.uk) was set up (July 20), it started to suffer continuous attacks, which were determined to come from China. The hackers broke down the server in the beginning. Later on, they deleted all the original files, posted the slanderous article entitled “The person and the affairs of Li Hongzhi” from the Chinese government newspaper, and replaced the author of this article with “Falun Dafa Research Society”. The web server company (Net Scan, www.netscan.co.uk) in UK was unable to solve this attack and admitted that the hacker had decoded their very high-level password. In the end, this web site had to be removed.
Case 4
Technical report and log tracing the web site attacks
Source: minghui.ca
Please note the IP address below 202.106.133.101
Jul 27 04:22:18 ns rshd[2049]: Connection from 202.106.133.101 on illegal port
Jul 27 04:22:52 ns rlogind[2053]: Connection from 202.106.133.101 on illegal port
Jul 27 04:22:53 ns identd[2054]: Connection from 202.106.133.101
Jul 27 04:22:53 ns identd[2054]: from: 202.106.133.101 (202.106.133.101) EMPTY REQUEST
Jul 27 04:23:16 ns sshd[2057]: connect from 202.106.133.101
Jul 27 04:23:16 ns sshd[2057]: log: Connection from 202.106.133.101 port 3983
Jul 27 04:23:17 ns sshd[2057]: log: Could not reverse map address 202.106.133.101.
Jul 27 08:25:44 ns ftpd[2060]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM 202.106.133.101 [202.106.133.101], aaa
See below the trace route to the IP address
1 208.232.157.9 (208.232.157.9) 9.750 ms 0.595 ms
2.886 ms
2 208.232.157.65 (208.232.157.65) 3.404 ms 2.617 ms 2.472 ms
3 208.244.234.165 (208.244.234.165) 15.144 ms
8.294 ms 7.892 ms
4 606.Hssi3-0-0.GW1.EWR1.ALTER.NET (157. 130.9.37) 14.792 ms 13.047 ms 12.699 ms
5 104.ATM2-0.XR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET (146. 188.161.18) 20.256 ms 24.539 ms 14.095 ms
6 295.ATM3-0.TR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET (146. 188.161.138) 14.665 ms 29.582 ms 35.083 ms
7 101.ATM6-0.TR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146. 188.136.230) 79.871 ms 123.432 ms 82.078 ms
8 299.ATM7-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146. 188.200.109) 87.239 ms 102.068 ms 95.871 ms
9 195.ATM10-0-0.GW5.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146. 188.201.65) 72.884 ms 106.255 ms 78.625 ms
10 internapsea-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.
178.34) 330.266 ms 329.950 ms 329.589 ms
11 border3bs.fe0-1-fenet2.sea.pnap.net (206.253
.192.203) 81.941 ms 83.632 ms 74.707 ms
12 usei-1-gw.h0-0.border3bs.sea.pnap.net (206.191. 144.106) 115.529 ms 92.339 ms 89.764 ms
13 chinanet-2.usei-gw.sea.pnap.net (206.191. 144.110) 642.679 ms 630.235 ms 634.164 ms
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 202.97.9.193 (202.97.9.193) 476.892 ms 473.841 ms 452.082 ms
19 202.97.9.202 (202.97.9.202) 924.723 ms 934.485 ms 937.800 ms
20 202.106.133.101 (202.106.133.101) 807.262 ms 794.904 ms 770.079 ms
Now find out who and where it belongs:
Whois Search results for ‘ 202.97.9.193’...
inetnum: 202.97.8.0 - 202.97.31.255
netname: CHINANET-BB
descr: Multimedia Communication Division
descr: China Telecom
descr: Erlong Road 33,Xicheng District
descr: Beijing 100032
country: CN
admin-c: DK26-AP
tech-c: DK26-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET
changed: dmkou@publicf.bta.net.cn 19990521
source: APNIC
person: Dongmei Kou
address: A12,Xin-Jie-Kou-Wai Street,
address: Beijing,100088
country: CN
phone: +86-10-62370437
fax-no: +86-10-62053995
e-mail: dmkou@publicf.bta.net.cn
nic-hdl: DK26-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-NEW
changed: dmkou@publicf.bta.net.cn 19990402
source: APNIC
Here is the final site the IP address belongs to:
Whois APNIC Search results for ‘202.106.133.101’...
Links to other registries are highlighted.
inetnum: 202.106.133.0 - 202.106.133.255
netname: ISCXA
descr: Information Service Center of XinAn Beijing
country: CN
admin-c: WH42-AP
tech-c: HJ36-AP
changed: suny@publicf.bta.net.cn 19990716
source: APNIC
person: Wang HuiLin
address: Dong Chang An Jie 14 Beijing 100741
phone: +86-10-65203827
fax-no: +86-10-65203582
nic-hdl: WH42-AP
changed: suny@publicf.bta.net.cn 19990716
source: APNIC
person: He Jian
address: Dong Chang An Jie 14 Beijing 100741
phone: +86-10-65203789
fax-no: +86-10-65203582
nic-hdl: HJ36-AP
changed: suny@publicf.bta.net.cn 19990716
source: APNIC
The content of the Dafa web page in England was replaced. But later the hacker’s IP address was recorded. The police found that the IP address is registered as XinAn Information Service Center in Beijing. Meanwhile, a practitioner in the U.S. who maintains a Dafa web page caught a hacker from the same IP address. At that time, he was not aware of the finding of England police. A reporter made a phone call to the phone number listed in the registry, and was informed that that center belongs to the Public Security Ministry of China. According to the reporter, later the operator at the Ministry said that the phone number belongs to the Internet Monitoring Bureau, a branch of the Public Security Ministry. The Ministry of Foreign affairs of China and the Public Security Ministry have refused to comment on this issue.
10.4 Chinese Government Officials Pressure U.S. Local Governments to Rescind Honorary Awards Given to Falun Gong
Case 1
A Conversation with A Maryland Government Officer
Source: Wang Pei
Description:
Maryland State Governor Parris N. Glendening awarded the founder of Falun Gong Mr. Li Hongzhi “Honorable Citizenship” of Maryland on August 14, 1999. Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke named August 13, 1999 as “Li Hong Zhi Day” in Baltimore, Maryland.
On December 7, 1999, practitioners in Baltimore read an article from the Baltimore Sun newspaper describing how the Maryland Government took back the Falun Gong awards and apologized to the Chinese Government. Upon learning about this situation, we made an appointment with Ms Elizabeth Pike who is the director of the state’s federal relations office.
Ms. Pike was the person who dealt with the Chinese Embassy regarding this issue. She said a Chinese officer called her office and angrily requested her to rescind the award. After meeting with the Governor, she wrote a letter, which emphasized that giving the award was not intended to hurt the Chinese people’s feelings. The Maryland Government didn’t intend to take the award back, however later, Ms Pike knew that this issue was on Chinese CCTV and her name was mentioned. She pointed out that what the news said was not quite the same as what she wrote in the letter. Also, she felt that the Chinese leader Mr. Jiang Zemin took this Falun Gong issue very personally and she could not understand why. According to Ms Pike, the Maryland Government has decided that the matter is closed. They will not make any further apologies . The Maryland Government has stated they will not take back the award given to Mr. Li Hongzhi.
In fact, the governor’s award and Baltimore City’s awards have not been cancelled. However, CCTV made misreported during its news program and claimed the awards were cancelled.
Case 2
Date of report: January 5, 2000
Source of news: Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, Missouri
Title: Falun Gong declarations irk Chinese
Consulate criticizes Boone County, city (by Pierrette
J. Shields of the Tribune’s staff)
Abstract:
The Columbia City Council proclaimed, and the Boone County Commission tomorrow plans to proclaim, a Falun Dafa week and is allowing a local group of practitioners to use the Boone County Government Center grounds. The city recognized the week Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, and the county’s week is planned for Jan. 9 through Jan. 16.
The deputy consulate of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago has asked local officials to stop supporting Columbia’s practitioners. He called presiding commissioner Don Stamper two weeks ago to urge him to disallow the group’s use of public property and to refrain from passing a proclamation declaring Falun Dafa Week.
He sent materials to both mayor Darwin Hindman and Stamper denouncing the group and asked the officials to renounce the proclamations.
Stamper plans to present the county proclamation to the group Sunday during their kickoff celebrations for Falun Dafa Week at the Boone County Government Center. Hindman said he did not understand the controversy surrounding the group when the city approved the proclamation, but now that it is done it will remain. “To withdraw this would be symbolic of interfering with their rights,” he said, noting if he has been aware of the tension between the practitioners and the Chinese government he likely wouldn’t have approved the move. “It was an interesting experience to be in the middle of international pressure, and the Chinese government was pretty good at putting on the pressure,” Hindman said. Stamper said he will not restrict the group’s use of public property.
Terry Weidner, director of MU’s Asian Affairs Center said. “What China does not understand, of course, is that demanding that we rescind these resolutions can be perceived as a violation of our sovereign rights of democracy and free speech.”
Case 3
China sways Seattle mayor to reverse Falun Gong proclamation
Location of incident: Seattle, USA
Description:
China’s ambassador to the U.S. convinced Seattle Mayor Paul Schell to rescind a November 29 Falun Gong proclamation. Schell issued an official proclamation declaring the week of the World Trade Organization meetings to be “Li Hongzhi and Falun Dafa Days.” Schell encouraged the citizens of Seattle to “join me in honoring the spirit and dedication of this extraordinary individual.” On Monday night, November 29, Ambassador Li Zhaoxing met with Schell and the next day received a letter from the mayor expressing “regret” that “my office accommodated a request from a group of Seattle residents.” Schell’s letter, which was obtained from the mayor’s office by Newsroom, referred to China’s important economic relations with the United States and with Seattle, which is home to Boeing and Microsoft. “I hope you will convey my regrets to your government for this unfortunate situation,” Schell wrote to the Chinese ambassador. “I assure you that there was never any intent to cause embarrassment or insult to the government or people of China.” In Seattle, Falun group obtained more than 10,000 signatures in less than two days from people who are concerned about human rights abuses against practitioners by the Chinese government.
10.5 China Steps Up Harassment Overseas using Embassies
Case 1
Chinese Consulate Failed to Interfere with a Falun Dafa Event at Caltech
Contacts: Ramanuj Basu, Chris Brennen
Location of incident: California Institute of Technology (abbr. Caltech), Pasadena, California, USA.
Description:
In the morning on Feb. 18, Ramanuj Basu, Audience Services Manager of Caltech Public Events Office, received a call from Liu Wansheng, who introduced himself as a consular in Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. “I am representing the Chinese government,” Liu said. He asked Ram to cancel a seminar event by Caltech Falun Club in the morning on Feb. 20 at Baxter Auditorium of Caltech in Pasadena, California. Liu said: “Falun Gong is illegal in China”. Ram told the caller that the Office of vice president for student affairs at Caltech should handle this issue.
The vice president for student affair of Caltech, Chris
Brennen, was surprised to hear the request from Chinese
government. He saw the flyers of the event notification a
few days ago on the campus and was also invited to the
seminar. He could not understand why the Chinese government wants to interfere with a seminar of the Falun
Gong Club, which just simply promotes a cultivation of
morality and a meditation practice. In a letter to John Li,
the president of Caltech Falun Club, Chris said:” Let me
assure you and the Caltech community that Caltech has
no intention of taking any action to interfere with the
lawful activities of the Caltech Falun Gong Club.
Moreover we remain committed to the free exchange of
information throughout the world.”
Case 2
Diplomats in Thailand Asked Local Chinese Businessmen to Report on Falun Gong Activities
Source of News: Duowei Chinese News Net
Article:
According to Duowei Chinese news net (January 18), the Chinese Embassy in Thailand held a Y2k banquet entertaining the leaders of the overseas Chinese. During the banquet, a high rank official of the Chinese Embassy made an astonishing speech. Besides asking the hundreds of guests to continue to contribute to the promotion of the relationship between China and Thailand in the new year, he also expressed his wish that they could help the Chinese Embassy by reporting on any activities of Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand in order to attack Falun Gong.
“Asian Weekly” reported that it was the first time that the Chinese Embassy has ever asked the overseas Chinese, who care only about business instead of politics, to attack Falun Gong. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand. The founder of Falun Gong has visited Thailand for a dozen of times since 1993 and has held numerous lectures.
Case 3:
News received on December 7, 1999
Source of news: www.minghui.ca
Description: China Steps Up Harassment Overseas with Embassies as Main Forces
Escalating the crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China, the Chinese security administrations have stepped up harassment towards overseas Falun Gong practitioners. Directly interfering with and attacking Falun Gong web sites, attacking and slandering Falun Gong and repeatedly posting propaganda materials against Falun Gong on the Internet, following, wiretapping, controlling certain overseas Chinese media etc. are no longer news. Recently, what has happened frequently is that in the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and European countries, the ambassadors of the Chinese embassies took the lead to make appearances and hold various meetings to “discuss” and“ criticize” Falun Gong, disallowing the participation of Falun Gong practitioners. They coerced the local governments in North America, using economical interest, into withdrawing their proclamations that had already been issued to Falun Gong in recognition of its contributions to society. At the same time, they employed various means such as inter-views to threaten and induce overseas Falun Gong practitioners to change and “ win them over” From reliable sources, some even darker espionage methods have also been in use.
A few days ago a “seminar on the current situation” was organized jointly by the Central Propaganda Administration, Central Government Directly Associated Organization Council, Central National Organization Council, the General Political Department of PLA, and the Chinese Communist Party Beijing Council. On November 26, vice premier Li Lanqing gave a report on the special topic of “ Some issues about struggling with Falun Gong,” in the People’s Great Hall. The report concluded that the struggle over the past period of time “ has achieved a decisive victory.” He put forward the next step of continuing to “ carry out thoroughly” the struggle with Falun Gong and “ achieving the complete victory in the struggle with Falun Gong.” There were over 3000 people from the army in Beijing, armed police, and department-level officials from the central organizations in Beijing attended the seminar.
Li Lanqing said in his report that since the Central Communist Party publicly banned Falun Gong on July 22 and implemented the crackdown on it, and the Ministry of Public Security issued the “ public notice”, Falun Gong practitioners have been “ generally stubborn” and are“ resolute in their determination”. As he spoke of the number of people detained in Beijing (mainly around Tiananmen) as they appealed to the authorities, he said: there are over 60 or 70 people every day from October 30 to present, and the number of practitioners who appealed during Annan’s visit to China between November 14 to November 17 is even more. So far there has not been a single day of peace, a single day without people coming to appeal. Thus he said that “the struggle with Falun Gong will be long-term, arduous and complex.”
Li Lanqing also said in his talk: “over the past period of time, we have achieved very good results in criticizing Falun Gong through the Internet and the embassies abroad. Next we should continue launching attacks through our own initiative.”
Case 4
Chinese Embassy held secret meeting to defame Falun Gong
Location of incident: Chinese Embassy, Ottawa, Canada
Description:
On November 21, 1999, Chinese Embassy held a secret meeting in Ottawa to defame Falun Gong. Chinese ambassador Mei Ping and Consul General Huang Ping attended the meeting. A very vicious video, “Evil cult-Falun Gong,” using fabricated evidence was shown. Only two or three selected Chinese government Media (Xin Hua News Agency and People’s Daily) were informed.
Case 5
Chinese Ambassador compares Falun Gong to the Mafia
Source of News: Denver Post,
Location of incident: Denver, Colorado
Description:
During his visit to Denver, Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, called Falun Gong “nothing but an outrageous cult, a malicious cult”. In an interview, the ambassador labeled Falun Gong as something like “the Littleton Trenchcoat Mafia”. He used the cocktail reception as an opportunity to slander Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong.
10.6 Mistreatment of Overseas Practitioners around the World
Case 1
Chinese embassies refused overseas Chinese Falun Gong practitioners’ appeal letters
Locations of incidents: Chinese embassies in France, Singapore, Sweden, USA
Chinese Falun Gong practitioners in France delivered an appeal letter to the Chinese Embassy on the morning of December 31, 1999. The guard of the Chinese Embassy closed the door before they finished their words and never opened the door to them again. Practitioners from Singapore, Sweden, and USA had similar experiences with their Chinese Embassies.
Case 2
Application for visa to visit relatives in China denied for Falun Gong practitioners
Victims:
Mrs. Holly Wei (0414 525 033) Mr. Liqi Zhao (02 9586 0328) Mr. Xibin Wei (02 9870 7287) Mrs. Julianna Hu (02 4733 2108) Mr. Qizhong Li (0419 480 939) Mr. Ken Wu (02 9411 5088)
Mr. Richard Chen (0413 8113 707) Ms Jane Qu (02 9588 5872)
Mr. & Mrs Haiying Zhu (02 9588 5582) ......
Location of incidents: Australia
Description:
Their visa applications to visit their family in China have not been approved simply because they are Falun Gong practitioners:
10.7 The Chinese Government Tried to Influence on the Chinese Students and Scholars Association in the United States
Case 1
Video with fabricated stories played at annual party
Source: Li Jingning
Location of incident: The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave., Washington, D.C. 20064, United States.
Description:
In the evening on November 23 (before the
Thanksgiving Day), the Chinese Students and Scholars
Association at the Catholic University of America held
an annual party and 40 plus members attended the party.
After the dinner, the Chinese Embassy, as a party sponsor, showed a movie. In the middle of the movie while
only twelve remaining people were present, the Chinese
Embassy began to play an hour-long videotape in order
to defame Falun Dafa. The Falun Dafa practitioners at
the party pointed out all the materials presented in the
video were intentionally fabricated by the Chinese propaganda. After being given permission, the practitioners
played their own videotape, Falun Gong: the Real Story.
After watching the video, the party was dismissed without further discussion.
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