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On June 7, 2005 in Melbourne, Mr. Hao Fengjun, a former agent of the Tianjin 610 Office and National Security Bureau in Tianjin echoed Chen Yonglin's report describing Chinese spies in Australia. Chinese consul first secretary Chen Yonglin at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney abandoned his post and claimed that he would no longer support the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) suppression against Falun Gong. This prompted Mr. Hao to come forward and expose inside stories of the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong with first-hand materials. The cruel and despicable means used by the CCP in persecuting Falun Gong will become widely known.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, the Age of Melbourne, Australia reports that Hao Fengjun "claimed he was the man in charge of collating and analyzing information gathered by Chinese spies in Australia."

Voice of America reports that Mr. Hao claims his "primary responsibility was monitoring the activities of the Falun Gong meditation movement and [Hao] claims to have seen members of the group tortured."

The Age also reports that he said he has direct evidence of China's persecution of minority groups, which was provided to Australia's immigration department months ago.

Chen Yonglin, who quit his work as first secretary at the Chinese consulate-general in Sydney on May 26, says he faces persecution if he goes back to China. He has said he quit because he could no longer support China's crackdowns on dissidents. Chen reportedly has gone into hiding.

According to a report from the Australian by Cameron Stewart and Natasha Robinson on June 9, 2005, 32-year-old Hao Fengjun spoke of how he arrived in Australia with his fiance in February carrying a bundle of secret documents, which he has since given to Immigration Department officials.

Mr. Hao says he stole the documents from his former employer -- the so-called 610 Office, a Chinese security agency set up to monitor Chinese dissidents abroad, especially the spiritual movement Falun Gong.

He became disillusioned with China's actions after seeing first-hand the violent state-sponsored repression of Falun Gong supporters.

Mr. Hao claims that the documents offer primary proof of the activities of Chinese spies in Australia, in particular their monitoring of Falun Gong supporters, as well as Chinese pro-democracy activists.

Mr. Hao says that after going public, he fears for his safety and believes he will be punished if sent back to China. But he decided to speak out after hearing of Mr. Chen's defection.

"He gave me inspiration because he had the courage to speak out, so I thought, why not me?" Mr. Hao said.

According to a report on June 9 by Gary Hughes and Tom Allard from the Sydney Morning Herald, Hao Fengjun, 32-year-old Chinese police intelligence analyst, and the second Chinese security official to defect, says the Secret Force runs spies in Australia and other Western countries. He told the media on June 8 that there are three levels of agents working for the Secret Force. The professional spies, who graduated from police college are paid to travel overseas to collect intelligence "in all areas." "Working relationship" agents, act as businessmen and target foreign business groups. Agents designated as "friends" infiltrate foreign countries and become friendly with both Chinese and Westerners.

According to the report, while the Secret Force's main job is to gather political and military information, it also closely monitors Falun Gong and other religious or Chinese democracy groups. Mr. Hao knows all this because he worked for the "610 Office" in the National Security Bureau in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin. His job, he said, was to collate and analyse intelligence reports sent back from Australia, the US, Canada and New Zealand about Falun Gong and other groups.

He claims to have downloaded some of these documents from his police computer into his MP3 player.

Mr. Hao said he faced execution if he was forced to return to China. "I am nothing to them. The only thing waiting for me is death."

Mr. Hao said he decided to flee China after being detained for 20 days for making a critical comment about his government's treatment of Falun Gong, including the torture of its coordinators. He said he feared for the safety of his seven-year-old son from a former marriage.

Mr. Hao decided to go public after Chen Yonglin went to the media this past weekend.

Mr. Chen's case is gathering support, with Labor yesterday joining the Greens' call to give him asylum. "There is a strong prima facie case that Chen Yonglin should now be granted an appropriate protection visa." Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd, said.

According to the report, one of the victims of the spying, Mr. Hao said, was Sydney Falun Gong follower Li Ying. Ms Li, whom Mr. Hao used as an example, said yesterday that she was aware that China was spying on her due to her beliefs.

At the end of the press conference, Mr. Hao said he wanted to make an announcement. He had joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1991, but as of yesterday he was no longer a member. He was finished with communism.

"I will never go back to China because I know what waits for me." he said.

Australia's Special Broadcasting Service reported on June 8 that Mr. Hao Fengjun, who worked as a security officer at the 610 Office in Tianjin, of northern China, has detailed allegations of human rights abuses, including the torture and brainwashing of members of the dissident group Falun Gong. The report said that the 610 Office was set up by the Chinese government to examine practitioners of Falun Gong and other spiritual groups.

Mr. Hao told the media that brainwashing and torture were methods of "re-educating" people in forced labor camps.

"First they will be sent to a brainwashing center, and if they are not "reformed" they are sent to forced labor camps." he told the independent Chinese newspaper, The Epoch Times.

"It's pretty common for forced labor camps to use torture methods. Almost every forced labor camp uses torture methods." he said.

A report by Patrick Walters and John Kerin on June 9 from the Australian stated that Falun Gong supporters living in Australia have often complained of harassment by Chinese officials going well beyond the conduct normally expected of diplomats.

"They (the Embassy) have had to be spoken to about that. Diplomats have no right to harass or interfere with local communities." said one senior government source.

That report stated that the US State Department suggests that several hundred Falun Gong practitioners have been put to death through torture, abuse and neglect.

Mr. Chen Yonglin, a diplomat from the Chinese Consulate in Sydney, who was in charge of monitoring and persecuting Falun Gong, has refused to continue serving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its suppression of Falun Gong, and has decided to break away from the CCP. Mr. Chen's defection shocked Australia and the entire international community, and has become a focal point of global media.

Mr. Chen Yonglin forsakes the darkness for light and refuses serving the CCP's suppression

On June 4, 2005, the Australian reported on the defection of Mr. Chen Yonglin, a diplomat from the Chinese Consulate in Sydney. The report stated that Mr. Chen contacted the Weekend Australian and claimed he was responsible for monitoring political dissidents, including members of Falun Gong, during the past four years, in his post at the Consulate. Mr. Chen said he had been "going easy" on dissidents, and he had been charged with monitoring and not reporting them, in protest of Beijing's policies. He said that he was seeking to defect because he could no longer support his country's persecution of dissidents. Mr. Chen expressed that he is not a Falun Gong practitioner but empathized with the group, whose practitioners in China, he said, had been "persecuted massively."

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times on June 5, Chen Yonglin, 37, the consul for political affairs at the consulate in Sydney, said he walked out of the mission a week ago because he could no longer support China's repression of democracy and religious groups. Chen said Beijing considered him a threat "because I had offered to help some democracy activists and Falun Gong practitioners in some way."

The Sydney Morning Herald reported on June 5 that Mr. Chen Yonglin, 37, consul for political affairs at the Chinese consulate in Sydney, had fled the consulate a week ago and gone into hiding, fearing he would be persecuted for his pro-democracy views.

Mr. Chen said, "My job at the consulate was to monitor and persecute the democracy
activists and Falun Gong practitioners in Australia. If I am sent back to China I will be persecuted." Chen revealed that there are a thousand Chinese agents in Australia and they have kidnapped dissidents there.

CNN reported on June 6 that diplomat Chen Yonglin said his work in Australia included monitoring the Falun Gong practitioners and supporters of Tibet, Taiwan and Uighur separatists from western China. He stated that he feels very unsafe, and people have no political freedom and no human rights in China.

The report stated that China has 40 registered diplomats in Australia. The Australian government sources believe that Chinese agents in Australia now outnumber Russian agents. Spies use diplomatic cover and also pose as business people and professionals.

According to a Reuters report on June 5, Chen Yonglin, who first appeared in public on Saturday at a rally in Sydney marking the anniversary of the 1989 crushing of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, said that the Chinese government considered him a threat because he had offered help to some democracy activists and Falun Gong practitioners. Chen said, "If I am sent back to China I will be persecuted." Therefore, he was in hiding with his wife and daughter.

According to Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) report on June 6, Chen Yonglin told reporters, "I feel guilty. In the beginning, I followed very strictly the government policy of persecuting Falun Gong people here." The report stated that in a letter to immigration officials, Chen Yonglin outlined his surveillance activities, and expressed remorse over what he'd done to members of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement outlawed by the Chinese government.

According to a report from the Herald Sun on June 6, senior Chinese diplomat in Sydney, Chen Yonglin, alleged that China had 1000 spies in Australia keeping tabs on democracy
advocates and dissidents, and had kidnapped several people.

The report quoted Falun Gong spokesperson Ms. Katerina Vereshaka, who said numerous attempts had been made to hack into Falun Gong databases and email networks. A prominent Sydney member also recently had a dead cat left on her doorstep with a threat stating that she and her family could be next.

The report said that more than 2000 practitioners have died in police custody in China.

After diplomat Chen Yonglin from the Chinese Consulate in Sydney walked away from the Consulate and claimed that he would not support the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) suppression against Falun Gong, on June 7, 2005, Mr. Hao Fengjun, former agent of Tianjin 610 Office and National Security Bureau in Tianjin voiced his support of Chen Yonglin in Melbourne. He exposed inside stories of the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong with first-hand materials. The cruel means used by the CCP in persecuting Falun Gong will become widely known.

On June 8, Australian Associated Press (AAP) published an article entitled, "Second Defector Backs Spy Claims." The article pointed out that a second Chinese defector has come forward to back claims by a diplomat seeking asylum in Australia that China has spies operating here. "They send out businessmen and students to overseas countries as spies," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Lateline program on the evening of June 7.

According to ABC news on June 8, Mr. Hao, 32, used to work for the Chinese security services, but in February, while he was in Australia as a tourist, he also applied for political asylum. He is in Australia on a bridging visa.

"If I go back to China there's no doubt the Communist Government will certainly persecute me," he told ABC TV's Lateline program from Melbourne.

"They know I have confidential information, some of it top secret, and I'll be severely punished."

Mr. Hao said that he lived and worked in Tianjin, China's third largest city, in the local branch of the security service known as the 610 Office, set up specifically to try to wipe out the banned Falun Gong movement.

Mr. Hao told Lateline, "Back in China I worked in the 610 Office and every day a lot of time was spent dealing with the reports that were being sent from overseas. They'd send all this intelligence information through from Australia, from North America, Canada and other countries and they reported back to the National Security Bureau and also the Public Security Bureau. They'd send back lots of information."

Hao said in the Lateline program, "In China, both the Public Security Bureau and the National Security Bureau are financed by the state. For example, in Shanghai and Beijing, every year they got 7 to 8 million yuan for the Security Bureau, and in Tianjin City it's about 250,000 yuan per year. So we use this money to pay spies to collect information overseas on Falun Gong and other dissident groups, but also information on military and business issues. They are very well supported financially. According to the ABC report, Mr. Hao supports the claim by Mr. Chen Yonglin that there could be 1,000 Chinese spies of one type or another in Australia."

"I worked in the police office in the Security Bureau and I believe that what Mr. Chen says is true." he said.

"As far as I know, they have spies in the consulate, but they also have a network - spies they've sent out."

"Like the National Security Bureau and the Public Security Bureau in China, they send out businessmen and students to overseas countries as spies."

Mr. Hao also gave a specific example of a report that came across his desk.

Mr. Hao said he started out as a career policeman in Tianjin, working the crime beat, before being transferred to the security service known as the 610 Office. It wasn't his choice and he soon decided it was work he didn't want.

He told Lateline, "(One time), I had to go to the place where they'd detained a Falun Gong follower named Sun Tee. When we got there, she had two huge black bruises on her back and two cuts on her back about 20 centimeters long. One policeman was using a half-meter length of metal bar to beat her. When I saw this, I knew I couldn't do this work."

According to a report from AFP ( Agence France-Presse ) on June 8, Mr. Hao said he was prompted to speak out after hearing about Chen Yonglin, 37, first secretary at Chinese Consulate-general in Sydney, who has been living in hiding with his wife and six-year-old daughter since leaving his job on May 26. Chen claimed that his four-year post is up and he would be persecuted if he returns to China. Chen said "a thousand" Chinese spies and informants were operating in the country.

The AFP report stated that Australia's handling of the Chen case is being closely watched by the political opposition and refugee rights groups concerned that Canberra could
place its burgeoning trade relations with China ahead of human rights.

The discussion program "Touch of Faith" is broadcast every Saturday night on the "Czech Radio 1" station. On May 28, 2005, presenter Jakub Siska interviewed the chairman of the Slovak Falun Gong Association.

The radio listeners learned about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They also learned that Falun Gong is based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. In answer to a question about whether Falun Gong can help people, the practitioner revealed that when the practice was spread in a Taiwanese jail, some of the inmates improved their characters to such an extent that their sentences were shortened.

The five sets of Falun Gong exercises were briefly described, including their effect on improving health, relieving stress and bringing a feeling of long-term inner peace.

The second part of the discussion was dedicated to questions from listeners. Some showed interest in learning the exercises or buying Falun Gong books. The practitioner told listeners that the Czech version of the introductory text Falun Gong is available in bookstores.

The program lasted almost sixty minutes. For the duration of the show, a song from the CD "Free Xiong Wei" could be heard in the background. Xiong Wei was a student of the Technical University of Berlin. She was imprisoned and abused in a Chinese forced labor camp for distributing Falun Gong flyers. Her story touched the listeners, especially when they heard that many people campaigned for her release and the pressure from abroad really did help.