(Clearwisdom.net)
Righteous Voice
RFA report on February 6th, 2002 from Beijing human rights organization, "Human Rights Watch" criticized the Chinese government's excessive use of torture, the large number of deaths in jails, and the large scale arrests without trial in persecuting Falun Gong. The document is 117 pages long and lists all different kinds of torture that have occurred. The document also pointed out that it is ridiculous to group Falun Gong with terrorists or to say that Falun Gong is a threat to the safety of the country.
News from China
245 people declared solemnly that all they have said and done under the influence of serious threats, forced brainwashing, and cruel torture are null and void. They will firmly cultivate Falun Dafa, firmly believe Master (Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa), clarify the truth thoroughly, reveal the evils, redouble their efforts to amend the damage they caused, and become dignified Fa-rectifying disciples.
"610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems) in Hebei Province directed police to abduct Falun Dafa practitioners, and locked them in the Shijiazhuang City Brainwashing Center. They made people from Dafa practitioners' workplaces and neighborhood administration office "accompany" the practitioners 24 hours a day. They also prohibited Dafa practitioners from sleeping and forced them to listen to statements that slandered Falun Dafa. The abducted Falun Dafa practitioners or their employers had 6,000 Yuan RMB (monthly pay of an average worker is 500 Yuan) extorted from them. Later the amount rose to 15,000 Yuan. Some practitioners were tied onto beds, and their mouths were bound and gagged with several chopsticks in such a way that was extremely painful.
Laws Made by Jiang's Criminal Regime: It's a Crime to Help Others Buy Train Tickets
On February 1, practitioner Zheng Jianxin was tried at Wuchang District Court in Wuhan City, and the "charges" against him was that he helped Falun Gong practitioners to buy 20 train tickets to Beijing, and unfurled banner(s) in Tiananmen Square on October 5, 2000. The court twists the law and tries to deceive the people!
The lawless government officials in Bozhou City, An'hui Province: Wang Zhaoyao, deputy secretary of Provincial Party Committee; City "610 Office" phone number: 558-5525322; Huang Yazhou, Politics and Law Committee Secretary: 558-5525300, 558-5119817 (home), 139-56712998 (cell phone); Xu Nailiang, deputy secretary of Jiaocheng District Politics and Law Committee: 558-5529055, 558-5525096 (home), 130-63398460 (cell phone); Wu Wencheng, director of Jiaocheng District "610 office:" 558-5521063 (home).
Cultivation Story
On November 15, 2001, my sister and I went to Tiananmen and sent forth righteous thoughts. We held high a Dafa banner and shouted as we walked, "Falun Dafa is good, restore Dafa's reputation, restore my Teacher's reputation!" Instantly, I felt unbelievably big and lofty. In Tiananmen Police Department, the vicious police beat me to the ground; they stepped on my chest and kicked my back. Later, we were detained in the Dongcheng District Detention Center. I didn't acknowledge the evil's arrangement and sent righteous thoughts all the time; I was able to returned home after only a dozen days.
The head and secretary of a village [name unknown] protected Dafa practitioners. They rushed to the township government and asked for practitioners who were illegally detained by government authorities when the practitioners went to turn in grain to the government. The village head and secretary brought back these practitioners, who clarified the truth about the Tiananmen "Self-immolation" face-to-face with people using righteous thoughts. Many people accepted the truth-clarification discs.
A 65-year-old Taiwanese Falun Dafa practitioner had suffered from glaucoma for more than a decade. Her medical doctor told her in 1995 that she would slowly become blind. In 1999, she made up her mind to fully use the time left to seriously cultivate Falun Dafa. Dafa has brought her brightness. Seeing her own experience in cultivating Dafa, her husband started the cultivation practice as well last year.
With righteous thoughts, one can go through heaven and earth without obstacles. In October 2001, 5 to 6 policemen and the chief of the security division of our workplace attempted to kidnap both my wife and me. We stood at the windowsill to clarify the truth to the crowd of onlookers. The police had to leave my apartment, but kept watching us from downstairs. During the night, we escaped through a skylight on the fifth floor.
Falun Dafa around the World
On February 1, 2002, Russian media reported Falun Dafa practitioners' appeal during the World Economic Forum. The report said that the demonstrators didn't pose any political threat and the police just checked their ID.
On February 1, 2002, right in the middle of the evening's entertainment to welcome the Winter Olympics and the Lunar New Year sponsored by all strata of Chinese people at Utah State, suddenly, the alarm sounded in the theater. The staff from the Chinese Embassy immediately blamed Falun Dafa practitioners. But no one was moved by the lie. People still accepted the truth-clarification CDs. The next day, when the Chinese Embassy requested that the Salt Lake police put the case on file for investigation, they were rebuffed.
An open letter from practitioners who are now appealing in Salt Lake City: We are here not to protest any of the events, nor to express any disapproval towards the Chinese athletes who have come to attend the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. However, the persecution of Falun Gong is "Unworthy of All That China Should Become." In order to uphold the spirit of the Olympics, please help stop the persecution of Falun Gong that is going on in China.
Hu Guoping, your fellow practitioners in Japan miss you. In December 1999, you went back to China to safeguard the Fa without hesitation and you were sentenced to 3 years in prison. Now two years have passed. We are so upset that you are still detained in a human-built hell that is full of evil.
The experience of a practitioner introducing Dafa in Venezuela: I taught new practitioners the exercises and displayed Dafa videotapes; I sent truth clarification material to the local governments; I donated Dafa books to the local libraries; I talked about Dafa at local radio stations. Many people asked me when I would come back again. I feel that it is very important for Dafa assistants to guide new practitioners to study the Fa and improve their xinxing.
Overseas practitioners who originally came from Shanghai celebrate "Shanghai City Falun Dafa Week." We are proud of our fellow practitioners who can step forward to validate Dafa in such a harsh environment. We sincerely hope that the fellow practitioners in our hometown can have more people know the truth, eliminate more evils, and offer salvation to more sentient beings.
