(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners and international human rights organizations jointly held an anti-torture exhibition in downtown Munich, Germany. The following is a transcript of a report by Tianyi, RFA's correspondent in Germany:
Munich is the largest city in southern Germany. With the recent increase of direct flights between Munich and China, more and more Chinese tourists and officials are visiting the city. Last weekend in Munich, Falun Gong practitioners from southern Germany and international human rights organisations jointly held an anti-torture exhibition opposing the Jiang Regime's ongoing persecution of Falun Gong. On Saturday afternoon, our reporter on the scene of the activity in downtown Munich, interviewed Mr. Bernhardt Aucham, an attendee of this activity.
Mr. Aucham explained to the reporter, "We are now on Marienplatz in downtown Munich. As everyone may know, there are almost one hundred million people practising Falun Gong in China, but they have been brutally persecuted. We are here to expose to everyone that in over a thousand labour reformation centres established to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China, eight and a half million people are being persecuted to different extents; many people suffer agonising torture or beatings, and over a thousand people have been persecuted to death."
Mr. Aucham also said that he himself had lots of Chinese friends who suffered this kind of persecution. Today's activity has a very realistic example, Ms Xiong Wei, who, with the help of German human rights organisations, Amnesty International and the German Government, had just returned to Germany. She went back to China to work after finishing her studies in Germany and was imprisoned for two years because she disagreed with the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong. To rescue Xiong Wei, they held appeal activities widely in Germany to collect petition signatures. Not long ago she was released and eventually she came back to Germany. Now she is telling the European society about all kinds of cruelties that the Chinese government uses to persecute Falun Gong with her personal experiences and what she witnessed.
There is an endless flow of people on the square in downtown Munich on this Saturday afternoon, especially tourists. The reporter saw lots of Chinese tourist groups coming to see the picture displays and received leaflets. Plenty of people looked like they came here for business, although they didn't dare to receive material hastily, they took photographs. In the mean time on the square, a couple of German media reporters interviewed Ms Xiong Wei in detail.
