The annual general meeting of the Germany-based International Human Rights Association was held in Frankfurt last weekend [April 1-8 2003]. At the meeting, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yuzhi delivered a speech about her personal experiences of being unlawfully imprisoned and brutally persecuted, simply because she believes in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and wants to be a good person.
During the discussion, Ms. Wang told the audience how she had gone on a hunger strike to appeal against the unjust treatment she was receiving, and had subsequently been force-fed with a thick and dirty tube stuffed down her throat. With all other means of appeal and communication with the outside world blocked, many imprisoned Dafa practitioners feel that this is the only way to appeal against the horrific crimes being perpetrated against them.
The whole audience was shocked by the speeches of Wang Yuzhi and Australian practitioner Dai Zhizhen whose husband was brutally murdered by the Jiang regime. People were surprised and horrified by the state of human rights in China. A person is subjected to unimaginable and inhumane torture just because he or she wants to be a morally decent person: Isn't this genocide? Isn't this a crime against humanity? All those who attended the meeting were seriously moved by the practitioners' accounts.