Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On March 24, 2007, people from New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington D.C. held a rally on Capitol Hill in the nation's capital to support 20 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Communist Youth League and Chinese Communist Young Pioneers. More than 10 Chinese and Westerners gave speeches, explaining why the CCP is about to crash and encouraging people to quit the party for their own safety.

Mr. Li Dayong, the spokesman from the Global Service Center for Quitting the Party, said that the root of the evil party has been pulled out, and it could crash at any moment.

The rally

Mr. Li Dayong, the spokesman from the Global Service Center for Quitting the Party: The root of the evil party has been pulled out, and it could crash at any moment.

Ms. Wu, the representative from Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, announces new evidence of the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

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Ms. Wu, a representative of Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, announced new evidence of the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Ms. Wu said: "On February 12, 2007, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) in Australia, Asia, Europe and America were established. Politicians, media and human rights organizations from different countries were concerned about and condemned the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Some politicians and international organizations suggested a boycott of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 if the CCP doesn't stop these atrocities."

The CIPFG announced: "The killing and harvesting of organs will not be happening in China simultaneously with the Olympics, which respects the basic human rights."

Dr. Terri Marsh, a human rights lawyer and the chair of the Human Rights Law Foundation, warned the media in China not to get involved in the persecution of Falun Gong.

On January 20, 2006, on behalf of five Falun Gong practitioners, Dr. Marsh filed a case against China Central Television (CCTV) for torture, genocide, and other crimes against humanity in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York states. CCTV has effectively created a network of lies about Falun Gong that encourages and incites the public, the police and other security forces in China to subject practitioners to unlawful arrests and detention, illegal police interrogation and torture, and brutal forms of brainwashing and indoctrination techniques to force practitioners to renounce their beliefs and associations, and in many cases, to cause the execution of practitioners who do not renounce Falun Gong. In the last two years, Mr. Marsh has collected a lot of evidence.

Ms. Marsh said that CCTV is alleged to have committed the very same crimes for which several Nazi war criminals were executed. Without the CCTV and other propagandists in China, the Jiang Zemin's, Lou Gan's and Li Lanqing's would have no one to follow their orders to eradicate Falun Gong and purge it from China.

She said that those who participate in the propaganda effort against Falun Gong will face serious legal sanctions - life in prison, lengthy jail terms if not death by execution. She pointed out that a defense that the defendants were just following orders of their superiors is invalid. The fact that any person acted pursuant to the order of his government or of his superior does not free him from responsibility for his crime.

Mr. Wei Jingsheng, the president of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, sent his support to the rally. Mr. Wei said: "Quitting the party really saves Chinese people's conscience and helps them to think about the CCP's crimes. It also helps Chinese people to get rid of their fear of the CCP. It makes them realize that the CCP is not equal to China."

Mr. Zhang Tianliang, a columnist for the Epoch Times, said that it is Gods' will that the CCP is about to crash down, and every member of the party is in danger. He asked: "If the CCP didn't have so many members, would it dare to do so many bad things and kill so many people?" He said that all members of the CCP help the CCP to commit crimes more or less, so if they don't quit the party, then they would share the blame for the CCP's crimes.

"Did you quit?" has become the new greeting in China

Mr. Zhang Hailian, a representative from the Service Center for Quitting the Party in Washington D.C., said: "In the last three months, the number of withdrawals from the party increased very fast, and the information regarding quitting the party has spread wider and wider in China. Since last December, there have been one million people publishing their announcement on the website. The number of withdrawals per day increased from 20~30 thousand to 30 ~ 40 thousand and the total number has reached 20 million."

Mr. Zhang Hailian said: "All the volunteers of the service center have an obvious feeling that Chinese people are changing--many of them are very easily convinced to quit the party. One citizen from Guangzhou said that Chinese people ask each other "did you quit?" when they run into each other nowadays."

A reporter interviewed a Chinese gentleman who is from Shanghai and doing business in America. The gentleman listened to all the speeches at the rally. He told the reporter that he learned about the movement of quitting the party on the internet when he was in China. He even received a fax regarding the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in his office. He said that many Chinese people know about it. He didn't expect to see the rally in America. He took photos of the rally and asked the Service Center for Quitting the Party for a copy of the Nine Commentaries and other information.

A college student from George Mason University said that he was glad he'd come to the rally. From the banners, he learned about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and the movement of quitting the party. As a student majoring in international affairs, he expressed that he would study this issue.

A number of Falun Gong practitioners in Washington DC held a rally in front of the Russian Embassy at 1:00 p.m. on March 26, 2007. They called upon Russia not to succumb to the CCP's pressure, and immediately release the Falun Gong practitioners detained in Moscow. They unfurled banners reading, "Immediately Release Falun Gong Practitioners!" and "Heaven will Eliminate the CCP, Soviet Union Communist Party's Yesterday Will be the CCP's Today."

The coordinator of the rally, Dr. Huang Zhuwei, said that a number of Falun Gong practitioners in Moscow called for an end to the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong upon hearing about the upcoming visit of Hu Jintao, but they were arrested. We thought Russia was unreasonable to accept the CCP's instigation. Russia itself just experienced Communist rule, and should have a deep understanding of the Communist Party's evil nature. How could it assist the evil doing bad deeds?

He said that Falun Gong practitioners have been brutally persecuted for a long time. At the same time, they have endured unnamed tribulations, and appealed to people's sense of justice and conscience. However, the Russian police arrested them. It was really inconceivable. Today, we want to tell the Russian government not to assist the CCP in doing bad deeds. He also introduced to the Russian Embassy staff that about 20 million Chinese people have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and informed them about the celestial phenomenon in which Heaven will eliminate the CCP.

March 26 was the beginning of Hu Jintao's main activities during his visit to Russia.

On the morning of March 24 in Moscow, more than a dozen Falun Gong practitioners peacefully protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in Russia, calling for an end to the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. Beginning at noon, the Russian police, at the behest of the CCP's embassy staff, took some practitioners to the police department in the name of "disturbing the embassy's work" and released them three hours later.

Falun Gong practitioner Alla Khegai, who was on the spot, said that the practitioners' behavior was peaceful, and they did not disturb others. They arrested practitioners based on the "Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," but the reason was too unconvincing. Actually, ten to fifteen Chinese plainclothes police were seen moving around nearby. They pointed to Falun Gong practitioners and urged the Russian police to arrest them.

On March 25, 22 more Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in front of the Chinese Embassy. The court would summon them on March 26. Local Falun Gong practitioners in Russia had submitted an application for a permit with the Russian authorities prior to their activities in front of the Chinese Embassy, but their application was not approved. According to the Russian Falun Gong practitioners, such an activity can only be prohibited by the court, so they felt their activity was legal.

The case that involved four Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners who sued the Hong Kong Immigration Office for unlawful rejection of their entry to Hong Kong, after having gone through a four-year trial, drew to a conclusion. The Hong Kong High Court announced a verdict on March 23, 2007. The judge ruled that Taiwanese people who "physically have landed on Hong Kong soil but have not yet entered Hong Kong cannot be entitled with the protection of Hong Kong's Basic Human Rights. The Immigration Office has broad discretionary authority, and can deprive people who arrive in Hong Kong of their "rights to procedural fairness". Therefore, the judge withdrew the Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner plaintiffs' application asking that the decision denying their entry be ruled unlawful. The judge also stated that the police's actions at the Immigration Office, in which they used violence against Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner plaintiffs during the deportation, were not excessive.

The Taiwan Falun Dafa Association released a statement on March 25, condemning the verdict for disregarding the protection of basic human rights, and calling the ruling absurd and unreasonable. The ruling showed Hong Kong's legal system bowing to the CCP's pressure. It will become the laughing stock of the international community, and be despised by people of insight. The main content includes the following five points:

1. The verdict disregarded basic human rights, demonstrating a capitulation to the CCP's pressure: The judge completely ignored basic human rights. It showed subordination to the CCP's pressure, and becoming an accomplice of the CCP in suppressing Falun Gong. At the same time, it also showed that the Hong Kong government has not defended the Taiwanese people's basic human rights in Hong Kong.

The judge even said that the Taiwanese plaintiffs cannot enjoy the basic human rights stipulated in Article No.4 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, because even though the Taiwanese plaintiffs "physically had landed on HK soil, that does not mean that they were in Hong Kong. Therefore, what the Basic Law stipulates, protecting and safeguarding rights and freedom of Hong Kong residents and people who are in Hong Kong, does not apply to the Taiwanese plaintiffs. (Verdict para 76-82).

Actually, in Article No.4 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the spirit of its human rights protection is similar to that of other countries, that is, to protect all people's basic human rights in the jurisdiction of the government. Airport passengers are certainly within the protection of the basic human rights in all countries. However, the judge in this case delivered an absurd and incomprehensible verdict, that when foreigners have landed on Hong Kong soil, so long as they are not allowed to enter, the Hong Kong government is not required to protect their basic human rights.

2. The verdict showed that the spirit of the law no longer exists: The verdict pointed out that the Director of the Immigration Office has wide discretion, and it was not necessary for him to give the Taiwanese plaintiffs the right of "procedural fairness." In other words, he could deny entry to Taiwanese plaintiffs without giving any reason. This means that the verdict denied the right of procedural fairness the plaintiffs should enjoy. (Verdict para 70&71)

But the basic spirit of any lawful society is the right of procedural fairness. The verdict in this case even publicly claimed that the Immigration Office has the right of broad discretion, and can completely ignore the right of procedural fairness. Doesn't this mean that the law in Hong Kong does not exist? Or did they make such a ridiculous decision because of the strong pressure brought to bear in this case?

3. The verdict indicates that Hong Kong has lost its autonomy. Justice Hartmann said that in "Schedule 8 to the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap.1," Taiwan is a part of China; therefore, Taiwanese people cannot be regarded as foreigners, (Verdict para.59) but such a position is contrary to the reality of immigration control, because Taiwanese people need to apply for an entry permit. Therefore, when the Taiwanese plaintiffs landed on Hong Kong soil with Hong Kong issued visas, they amounted to foreigners (Verdict para. 61) This shows that Hong Kong has lost its autonomy, and One Country, Two Systems does not exist.
   
4. The judge appeared to be two different persons in the trial and in making the ruling. This shows that the legal system is cowardly and in breach of its duty. Justice Hartmann once questioned the Hong Kong government's lack of candor. Why did they destroy all information about 80 Falun Gong practitioners who were denied entry to Hong Kong in less than one month? Was there a blacklist as the plaintiffs claimed? Was it related to the plaintiffs' religious belief? He said twice to lawyer Daniel Fung, who represented the Hong Kong government, "Don't beat around the bush."

However, Justice Hartmann delivered the verdict in the absence of other evidence. He must have thought the decision for denying entry and the fact that 80 Falun Gong practitioners were denied entry, and the concern over religious issues, were simply coincidences!

Such a judgment does not have any legal basis, and makes no sense, but only shows the Hong Kong court's cowardice and neglect of duty. However, doesn't such a distorted judgment reflect the huge pressure from the CCP?

5. The plaintiffs will continue to appeal. Falun Gong groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan believe that basic human rights cannot be dismissed with an absurd judgment. The truth about why the Hong Kong government denied entry to those Taiwanese plaintiffs has not yet been made clear enough. The judge, with this verdict, in fact indirectly shielded the Hong Kong government, thus assisting and hiding the operations of the CCP behind the scenes. But we believe that the CCP's blacklist should be corrected and eliminated by the Hong Kong judicial system. We will consider continuing to appeal with our lawyer in the near future. The Falun Gong group believe that righteousness will overcome evil, and righteousness and kindness will ultimately prevail.

The Taiwan Falun Dafa Association therefore calls upon the Taiwanese government and human rights community to uphold justice, safeguard the Taiwanese people's basic human rights, condemn Hong Kong' miscarriage of justice, expose the Hong Kong government's deceitful operations and the CCP's behind-the-scenes manipulations, and restore Taiwanese plaintiffs' reputations, human rights and justice.