Two Malaysian Falun Gong practitioners, Huang Meiyi and Chen Yuyan, wanted to go to Singapore on September 12, 2006, but were denied entry by the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoint Authorities (ICA) without giving any reason. This was the second time that both of them were denied entry. They held a press conference to explain the situation in Johor, a southern city in Malaysia near Singapore. Malaysian News Agency and mainstream media in three major languages and Singapore media attended the press conference.
 Three Malaysian Falun Gong practitioners who were denied entry into Singapore hold a press conference |
 Singapore practitioner introduces the unfair treatment of Falun Gong in Singapore |
At 1:30 p.m. on September 12, Huang Meiyi and Chen Yuyan arrived at the Woodlands Customs in Singapore. When they passed through customs and had their passports screened by the computer, a special icon appeared. Customs officers immediately asked them to enter an office to wait. They were called, one at a time, to another small room to be questioned.
They were both denied entry, but the customs officers only asked them to follow a female police officer to leave without saying anything else during the whole process. Huang and Chen complained that they were asked to leave without being informed of the reason why they were denied entry, and they were also dissatisfied that the customs officers did not say anything during the whole process, not even formally notifying them that they were denied entry. The two practitioners tried to meet with the customs officers and asked to be allowed to return to the customs office to see the person in charge, but their requests were repeatedly rejected.
They had reason to suspect that the Singapore government denied their entry because they are both Falun Gong practitioners. In July this year, when Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official Li Lanqing, who participated in the persecution of Falun Gong, came to visit Singapore, Huang and Chen went to Singapore to protest to Li Lanqing concerning the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. They had planned to protest at the National University of Singapore where Li Lanqing would be receiving an honorary degree, but a large number of police officers followed them, so they had to give up their plan. When the security staff at the university took down their names and passport numbers, the police were also present.
They once again headed for Singapore in August but were denied entry. While passing through customs, their passports were screened via a computer, which notified the customs officers to refuse to let them enter. Were their names on a "blacklist?" The two had been to Singapore numerous times before and had never met with any problems.
During Li Lanqing’s visit to Singapore, Singapore imposed a series of charges against local Falun Gong practitioners and expelled Chinese practitioners who had legal resident status in Singapore.
At the press conference, the two practitioners also revealed that this is not just an individual case. In August, two other Falun Gong practitioners from Johor, Malaysia, were subjected to the same denial of entry into Singapore when they took the plane at Changyi Airport in Singapore to go abroad.
One of the practitioners involved in that incident, Mr. Lim, also attended the press conference. He went to Singapore’s Changyi International Airport to take the plane heading for Narita Airport in Japan. There was no problem on his trip to Japan, but when he returned from Japan, Singapore Customs Office refused to let Mr. Lim enter Singapore. Officials told him to buy another air ticket to Malaysia’s International Airport. Customs officials were unable to give any explanation why Mr. Lim had no problem flying to Japan from the Singapore airport but was denied re-entry upon his return. Mr. Lim paid the airport tax before boarding the flight.
Another practitioner from Johor took the plane at Singapore’s Changyi Airport to travel abroad in August. Just like Mr. Lim, he was denied re-entry into Singapore without being given any reason. As a result, he lost the cost of his ticket worth several thousand in Malaysian currency.
In addition, several Malaysian Falun Gong practitioners were questioned when they entered Singapore in the past few months.
Falun Gong practitioners called on the Malaysian government to pay attention to this matter, because it involves the infringement of the Malaysian citizens’ human rights: their beliefs are being discriminated against and they are being deprived of their freedom of movement. This also shows that the Singapore government discriminates against Falun Gong, even though Falun Gong is a legally registered society in Singapore. Malaysian practitioners also called upon the Singapore government not to be an accomplice in the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.
Singapore practitioners also attended the press conference. They further explained to the media how Falun Gong is unfairly treated in Singapore.
On Wednesday, September 13, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited England to meet the country's Prime Minister. UK Falun Gong practitioners protested opposite the Prime Minister's residence, where he was officially welcomed. Practitioners' banners called on him to pay attention to the human rights abuses that the Chinese Communist Party is committing against Falun Gong. Another banner called for the prime culprits in the human rights crimes against Falun Gong--Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang--to be immediately brought to justice.
While most of the Falun Gong practitioners were holding banners exposing the persecution against the practice in China and demanding that the abuses be brought to an immediate end, others were demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and handing out leaflets to members of the public. People were glad to find out more about Falun Gong and some of them expressed their concern and sympathy for the practitioners suffering in China.
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One of the main focuses of the practitioners' protest was the recent organ harvesting atrocities that have been exposed worldwide. In the past year, a series of witnesses have come forward to reveal that the Chinese Communist Party has been harvesting internal organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. The organs are sold to transplant seekers for enormous profit and the practitioners' bodies are then cremated. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are said to have been killed in this way through a network of labor camps across China.
Practitioners held banners that called for organ harvesting to stop and also handed out Falun Gong Today newspapers that gave the public detailed and undeniable evidence that these atrocities are ongoing. Many members of the UK public have already heard about the CCP's organ harvesting after former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) David Kilgour visited in August to publicize his recent investigation into the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs. Mr Kilgour's report, which he wrote jointly with renowned human rights lawyer David Matas, concluded that the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs is a new form of evil that has never been seen before and is happening right now in China.
Who are Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang?
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Army, and the Chinese Government, personally initiated and escalated the persecution of Falun Gong.
On June 10, 1999, because of Jiang Zemin's personal will and abuse of power, the 610 Office was established specifically to persecute Falun Gong, overriding the Chinese Constitution and the law and with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems. After July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin ordered the 610 Office to carry out an annihilation policy against Falun Gong practitioners in China, including the following directives:
"Defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically;
"If practitioners are 'beaten to death it is nothing and shall be counted as suicide;'
"Cremate their bodies directly without identifying them."
Since July 20, 1999, more than 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death in more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.
Luo Gan
As Secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Central Committee, Luo Gan personally planned the defamation and framing of Falun Gong. He played a major role in the persecution. After July 20, 1999, Luo Gan was the main executor to carry out Jiang's genocidal policies against Falun Gong. From 1999 to 2002, Luo Gan personally participated in the making of a series of policies designed to map out the escalation of the persecution.
Luo Gan used every speech he made at various meetings to incite political and judiciary departments to step up the persecution of Falun Gong. He personally went to various places to oversee the execution of persecution orders. Between 2001 and 2003, Luo Gan gave at least seven public speeches, urging the political and judiciary departments to regard "Falun Gong as the number one target for suppression." Since September 2000, Luo Gan had gone to Weifang City in Shandong Province, Wuhan City in Hubei Province, Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province, Changchun City in Jilin Province, Anhui Province, Liaoning Province, Jiaozuo City in Henan Province, Shenyang City in Liaoning Province, and Xingkai Lake in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, to personally oversee the persecution.
Evidence shows that whenever Luo Gan conducted an inspection somewhere, the arrest, torture and death toll of Falun Gong practitioners in that area would increase drastically.
Liu Jing
Liu Jing is the head of the 610 Office and, as such, also went to various places to direct the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. Liu Jing and Luo Gan often went together to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to personally inspect the progress of the brainwashing efforts against practitioners. They also ordered that the cruel methods that Masanjia employed to torture practitioners be a model for other forced labor camps and brainwashing centers, not only in Liaoning Province where Masanjia is located, but also around the country. This led to pervasive, savage persecution in detention centers, forced labor camps, and jails all over China.
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, which is located in the suburb of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, is notorious as the place where practitioners are tortured most cruelly. Many practitioners have died there as a result of the atrocities perpetrated against them. Masanjia Forced Labor Camp will also go down in the history books for stripping naked 18 women practitioners who refused to renounce their belief and throwing them into male prison cells without police supervision.
Liu Jing personally helped plot and implement the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square, an almost unbelievably twisted propaganda stunt contrived and staged to discredit Falun Gong in the mind of the public. Liu Jing is also responsible for the creation of masses of other propaganda designed to incite hatred against Falun Gong.
The staged self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square is the most widely propagated and most effective lie told to turn public opinion against Falun Gong. The incident affected many people and incited those who did not know the facts to have enmity for Falun Gong, giving Jiang's regime an excuse for escalating the persecution against Falun Gong. A non-governmental organization known as the International Education Development (IED) pointed out in a report dated August 14, 2001, that the "self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square was staged by the government." Many discrepancies were uncovered through a slow-motion analysis of the incident recorded on videotape by CCTV cameras on the scene. In the videotape, we can see someone hit Liu Chunling, one of the self-immolators, on the back of the head, killing her on the spot. It has also been verified that the self-immolators were not Falun Gong practitioners.
Yet because Jiang and his regime control the media in China, they were able to flood the airwaves with false propaganda, and use it to great advantage in their efforts to gain public support for their persecution of Falun Gong.
Zhou Yongkang
Zhou Yongkang was the secretary of the Sichuan Province Party Committee and is currently the minister of Public Security (as the police are called in China). He is responsible for the torture deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners. Zhou Yongkang is notorious in Sichuan Province for his brutality. Sichuan people refer to him as "Human Rights Killer."
During his tenure in Sichuan, Zhou Yongkang and other high-ranking officials colluded with each other to persecute Falun Gong. Sources contend he authorized, supervised, and endorsed such methods as murder, torture, and disappearance in order to intimidate and eliminate practitioners in his district. He also carried out a vicious policy of implicating others in the abuse saying, "If parents practice, lay the children off from their jobs; if children practice, fire their parents, stop paying their pensions, and cut off their financial resources." He has made Sichuan one of the provinces where Falun Gong is persecuted the most severely. By persecuting Falun Gong, he paved a road to his own promotion to minister of Public Security, a road stained with Falun Gong practitioners' blood.
On December 9, 2003, Zhou Yongkang continued to carry out Jiang's persecution policy, stating at a meeting held with various heads of the police system, "Cracking down on Falun Gong is still the main task of the Chinese police system." According to a report by People's Police, a newspaper in Beijing, Zhou Yongkang announced Jiang's eight major points regarding domestic and international issues. The first five points were to strengthen the dictatorship, with the suppression of Falun Gong listed as the third major point.