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News & Media Reports
According to reports from Central News Agency on February 8, Liu Qi, the Mayor of Beijing and also the President of Beijing Olympic Committee, who is now attending the Winter Olympic Games, was sued yesterday by 6 Falun Gong practitioners. They claimed that under Liu's permission, Beijing police have been systematically persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. All 6 practitioners had been severely beaten and suffered brutal torture in Beijing. U.S. Federal District Court in Northern California has already signed the indictment.
Voices of Justice
Canadian congressmen and Amnesty International called on the Canadian government to initiate a resolution at the United Nations to condemn China's human rights abuses, especially its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
News from China
104 practitioners solemnly declared that under the intense pressure of threats and brutal torture, all of what they had written or spoken that are not in accordance with Dafa are null and void. The so-called "promise not to practice Falun Gong", "statement of repentance" as well as "exposing materials" were all written when they could not endure the ruthless persecution and were unable to focus their thoughts.
A public letter to Liuchangshan Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City of Shandong Province: You, the authorities in charge of Liuchangshan Forced Labor Camp have to take full responsibility for the death of Dafa practitioner Liu Jian. You ordered prisoners to beat him, humiliate him and even smear feces on him, to the point that he was tortured to death. Do not think that you will escape justice. You will surely receive punishment by law and by heavenly principles!
The Railroad Police Division in Huaihua City of Hunan Province and the local "610 Office" sent practitioners who work for the railroad system to Guangzhou City for brainwashing. Four people closely followed every practitioner. Some practitioners were even kidnapped in broad daylight. Some family members were also persecuted. The phone number of the No.1 section chief, Zhong Shan, 86-745-2182618. Division chief's office: 86-745-2122718 (office), 86-745-2122708 (home).
A sandstorm swept through Inner Mongolia today. Experts at the Desertification Monitoring Center warned that sand and dust will likely attack Beijing and Tianjin this spring.
News From Abroad
Liu Qi, Mayor of Beijing and president of the Beijing Olympic Committee was served with a lawsuit in a U.S. district court for serious violations of Falun Gong practitioners' human rights in China and abroad. On the night of February 8, Liu received the papers for the suit when he was in L.A. International Airport, on his way to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. This is the second Chinese government official traveling in the US to be served with papers for a human rights violation lawsuit on behalf of tortured practitioners in China.
After participating in truth-clarification activities at WEF in New York, Mr. Hu, a doctor of Chinese medicine from Taiwan came to Toronto to give lectures on "Health and Life." More than 80 people showed up at the first lecture on February 6, providing a harmonious, warm environment for spreading the Fa. Dr. Hu will give 5 such lectures.
On the evening of February 5, 2002, the Chinese Consulate at Edinburgh entertained local Chinese people at a dinner. Practitioners from Scotland came to clarify the truth in front of the Chinese Consulate. Groups of Chinese people who had come for the dinner watched practitioners demonstrate Falun Gong exercises. Most of them accepted the truth-clarification materials. Policemen also got the chance to learn the truth about Falun Gong. They were very moved and even invited practitioners to teach the exercises at some schools.
At the International Doll Exhibit at San Francisco in January 2002, a western practitioner displayed a couple of porcelain carvings, which commemorated Ms. Wang Lixuan and her 8-month old son. He also included their photos and stories and information of Falun Gong in the introduction booklet. When people learned of the brutal persecution, they showed their sadness and outrage. Some expressed their gratitude for what the practitioners had done, while others said the practitioners are following a righteous path.
Cultivation Stories
The police kidnapped two practitioners, Liu Fang and Han Mei in Hebei Province while they were distributing truth-clarifying materials on December 5, 2001. The police tortured Han Mei by forcing her to stay on the "dead person's bed." (The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. He is not allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom.) They handcuffed Liu Fang to a cold iron chair and proceeded to savagely beat and shock her with electric batons. Liu Fang got the handcuffs open and walked out of the police station by sending forth righteous thoughts while the police were eating. Han Mei was also released seven days after her hunger strike.
The police came to my house and kidnapped my whole family at around 7 p.m. on December 12, 2001. I went on a hunger strike for 17 days, refusing food and water. I was tortured savagely, but I did not for a single moment cooperate with the evil or follow their orders. I always looked squarely at the policemen with righteous thoughts in my mind. I protected Dafa with my life and was eventually released, rejoining the giant current of Fa-rectification.
Besides telling people in the city the truth about Dafa, my spouse and I went to the countryside almost every Saturday to deliver truth-clarifying materials and eliminate the evil with our righteous thoughts. We encouraged practitioners, and we helped to save sentient beings. One night in May my spouse and I decided to inscribe some words on doorposts. After we made the police leave by sending forth the righteous thoughts, there came some other people. We recited silently in our mind "suffocate the evil," and they left right away. We truly felt the power of the Dafa.
