(Clearwisdom.net) Manfred Nowak, the UN Human Rights Commission's special investigator on torture arrived at Beijing on November 21, 2005 to probe torture in China. Nowak is the first UN special investigator to visit China. Amnesty International stated that torture is widely used in China to persecute religious groups and Falun Gong practitioners.
Radio Free Asia reported on November 21 that Manfred Nowak, the UN special investigator on torture, arrived at Beijing on Monday and began an 11-day visit. He is the first UN special investigator to visit China.
AP reported, "A top U.N. investigator on torture began a tour of China on Monday, the culmination of a decade-long effort by the world body to visit the country's detention centers to investigate allegations of human rights abuses."
Barbara from Amnesty International in Asia and Pacific said that use of torture is widespread in China and that torture is used to deal with religious groups and Falun Gong practitioners.
BBC reported, "Manfred Nowak told the BBC he had been promised the freedom to see prisoners and investigate claims of torture."
Beijing has repeatedly agreed to allow visits by UN torture investigators and then postponed them. Nowak said in August he was pleased China had for the first time "finally accepted a visit, after years of negotiations."
The former special investigator postponed his trip to China because Chinese Communist regime did not assure his visiting of some prisons.
To have more people know the torture that Chinese Communist regime uses to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, practitioners across the world reenact torture methods using real people. The brutal persecution against practitioners in China is vividly exposed. The communist regime's torture is brought to the attention of people across the world.
November 22, 2005
