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Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group Appeals to human rights organizations under the UN Human Rights Commission regarding the recent shocking rape case in Hebei Province.
On December 2, the United Nations Human Rights Commission special investigator on torture concluded his 2-week investigation in China on torture claims and held a press briefing in Beijing. Many major media outlets around the world reported on the envoy's findings.
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For more than ten years, the U.N. has been requesting China to allow investigators to look into claims of torture. "China had repeatedly agreed to allow the visits and then postponed them." AP reported. However, the mounting pressure from the international community and vast number of torture reports from China eventually make this visit a reality.
At the press conference, the rapporteur condemned that torture is very widespread in China and that China should follow the international human rights standard and the U.N. Convention against Torture. China has the world's largest prison system and often uses torture to extract confessions. Mr. Nowak also protested the interference from the Chinese Communist regime in his investigation. The regime not only sent agents to trail, monitor and harass their normal investigation, but also intimidated victims and family members that the U.N. team tried to interview.
Mr. Nowak specifically mentioned the systematic persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the regime. Arbitrarily detained Falun Gong practitioners were subjected to the tiger bench, water dungeon, electric shocks, beatings, sleep deprivation, etc.
Human rights groups have repeatedly called on China to take steps to fundamentally reform, and to reduce and prevent torture, rescind the system of re-education through labor and stop the torture of innocent people in mental hospitals.
On the same day, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group (FGHRWG) submitted an appeal letter to human rights organizations under the UN Human Rights Commission regarding a shocking rape case that took place on November 25, 2005 in Hebei Province. This is the most detailed rape case received by the FGHRWG, and also the tip of the iceberg of the ruthless and inhumane persecution of countless Falun Gong practitioners imposed upon by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the past six years. The CCP police's brutality and degenerated acts are the manifestation of the malevolent CCP's nature. It has raped not only the two Falun Gong practitioners, but all Chinese people. When the people of the world stand up to condemn the CCP's atrocities, that will be the moment when the CCP completely collapses.
The FGHRWG sent an appeal letter to the following organizations and a detailed report of the case to Mr. Nowak who is conducting the torture investigation in China.
- Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture and Detention
- Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences
- Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health
- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Meanwhile the FGHRWG also appealed to international women's rights protection groups and government institutes.
Case Brief:
On the evening of November 24, 2005, police from Dongchengfang Town Police Station, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, under the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) policy of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, took into custody two female Falun Gong practitioners in Xitong Village, Dongchengfang Town, Ms. Liu Jizhi (51 years old) and Ms. Han Yuzhi (42 years old), from their respective homes. At Dongchengfang Town Police Station, a policeman named He Xuejian raped Ms. Liu Jizhi and Ms. Han Yuzhi during the so-called "official investigation." The aforementioned rape severely injured the victims and their family members.
Recently, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group submitted an appeal letter to the United Nations on behalf of 535 Hunan Falun Gong practitioners' families. The letter calls on the UN to pay attention to the detention and persecution suffered by Falun Gong practitioners at the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Xhuzhou City, Human Province.
On September 1, 2005, minghui.ca (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) published a joint appeal letter from 535 Hunan Falun Gong practitioners' family members. The letter exposed the inhuman torture that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering at the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp. They filed complaints against the guards at the labor camp, managed by Huang Yongliang and Zhao Guibao, through all channels of the Chinese justice system. Unfortunately, Falun Gong practitioners' rights were not respected; on the contrary, what they achieved was just the opposite. Many family members have now been persecuted and the families have been broken up. Under such circumstances, the only hope they have now is to ask for help from the international community. They wrote an open letter to international human rights organizations, international mental health organizations, and all people of the world to call upon the entire world to condemn, resist, and stop the atrocities at the Baimalong Women's Labor Camp under the Chinese Communist Party's tyranny. They urged the unconditional release of all Falun Dafa practitioners who are being illegally imprisoned or detained.
Since 2001, at least six Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of persecution in the Baimalong Women's Labor Camp. Many people were beaten, and suffered tortures such as being hung up by their handcuffs, shocked repeatedly with electric batons, force-fed, and injected with unknown drugs. As a consequence, a number of practitioners were disabled or lost their mental clarity. Guards at the labor camp not only persecute practitioners themselves, but they also incite criminal inmates to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners were directly murdered by criminal inmates.
The 535 practitioners' family members stated in their appeal letter, "Since 2001, the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp has been designated as an 'advanced civilized work unit' for persecuting Falun Gong. Li Lanqing, the head of the 610 Office, is in charge of the forced labor camp. Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the CCP, allocated several tens of millions of yuan to this labor camp to build a few office buildings and lodgings for the guards, who have become like animals. The labor camp is awarded 10,000 yuan for "transforming" each Falun Gong practitioner. The labor camp then gives 1,000 yuan to the guard who most cruelly persecutes practitioners. Guards are given promotions based on how much they persecute Dafa practitioners. The Party also offers an overseas trip to the most ruthless evildoer. In order to satisfy their selfish desires, the guards have become barbaric. They have completely lost their human nature.
As this case involves a large number of people and the persecution is extremely serious, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group sent an urgent call for rescue to the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance, and The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, hoping that the international community and the United Nations will take action to stop the persecution and killing at the Baimalong Women's Labor Camp.
Provided by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group.