Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyang recounts various methods of torture used in China's Labor camps. Attendees are moved.

A video program exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in China is featured at the meeting.

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 25, 2005, the first conference of a series on China, organized by la Maison des Associations, took place in Geneva. These conferences, held at the suggestion of the Geneva Tibet Support Group (la Porte du Tibet), with the main theme being "For True Democracy in China," offer a series of debates on the Communist regime in China. Representatives of several NGOs were present, notably, Reporters without Borders, Human Rights Watch, the Geneva Tibet Support Group (la Porte du Tibet), and the Swiss Falun Gong Association. Despite the holiday period, the conference was well attended.

To open the evening, two short films were shown. One was about the persecution of Falun Gong raging in China for the past six years, the other was about Chinese occupied Tibet. During this presentation a deep silence could be felt, thus showing the profound impression it made on the public.

A representative of the Swiss Falun Gong Association briefly recalled the escalation of the repression in China which accounted for more than 1,017 deaths from torture over the past six months, bringing the total number of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners from torture to 2,800. This was followed by the most moving moment of the evening when Miss Wang Xiaoyang, a young student from Saint Gall, spoke of her mother who has been in detention in China for the past eight months. She was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp. Miss Wang reminded the audience of the various cruel methods employed in the camps to transform Falun Gong practitioners. Emotion showed through her voice when she shared with the public her concern over the treatment that her mother must in fact be receiving. She launched a poignant appeal that touched several members of the audience who then offered her their sympathy and best wishes for a positive outcome to the situation.

The next conference will be about the wave of resignations of members of the CCP which will soon amount to 4 million, and which were triggered by the publication of the Nine Commentaries by the independent newspaper Epoch Times International.