Press Conference on September 27 to Urge the U.S. Government to Bar Chinese Minister of Culture from Entry

WHO: Falun Dafa Association in Greater Washington, D.C., Area

WHEN: 12:45 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27

WHERE: Chinese Embassy, 2300 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Washington, D.C.

DETAILS:

Sun Jiazheng, China's Minister of Culture, intends to attend the Festival of China at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the United States in October 2005.

We request the State Department to deny Chinese government official Sun Jiazheng an entry visa into the United States pursuant to INA 212(a)(2)(G), 8 U.S.C.A. Section 1182(a)(2)(G) -- "Foreign government officials who have engaged in particularly severe violations of religious freedom." Sun Jiazheng has played a major role in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China:

-- China's Ministry of Culture has closely followed Jiang Zemin's orders in the suppression of Falun Gong by banning and massive destroying Falun Gong publications;

-- Sun chairs an organizing committee of "internet civilization project" to monitor and block the "antagonistic forces" inside and outside China including emails with contents of Falun Gong;

-- China's Ministry of Culture launched hate campaign to direct intellectuals in producing numerous literature and art pieces smearing and instigating hatred of Falun Gong;

-- In January of 2004, a lawsuit was filed against Sun in France during his visit as part of Sino-France Cultural Year Exchange Program. The charges include "incitement of massacre and persecution"

The anti-Falun Gong "cultural" campaign directly resulted in Chinese people's hate against Falun Gong, and legitimized the torture and killing. To allow Sun Jiazheng into the United States to attend events hosted by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a US government organization, would send a troubling message that the U.S. government ignores its own immigration and human rights laws when dealing with the People's Republic of China.

As the Nine Commentaries on Communist Party put it in "On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture", the Communist regime destroyed Chinese traditional culture, replacing it with 'communist culture' which advocates the philosophy of 'struggling with heaven, earth and humanity' and destroyed traditional faith of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Communist "culture" is actually a propaganda tool to control Chinese people's minds and force a suppressive social environment, wielded whenever it desires to persecute a group the CCP recognizes as different from its own violent nature. Past recipients of this destructive dictation of culture include landowners, intellectuals, artists, and people of Chinese traditional faiths.