Epoch Times: Demonstration at Australia's Parliament House on Behalf of Torture Victims

Epoch Times Australia Staff

Apr 04, 2006

Actors demonstrate torture methods used by Chinese police on Falun Gong practitioners in China. Australian Falun Gong practitioners held an appeal against human rights violations in China outside Parliament House amidst Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit on April 3, 2006 in Canberra, Australia. (Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

Actors demonstrate torture methods used by Chinese police on Falun Gong practitioners in China. Australian Falun Gong practitioners held an appeal against human rights violations in China outside Parliament House amidst Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit on April 3, 2006 in Canberra, Australia.

(Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

Just days prior to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Australia, Falun Gong practitioners delivered petitions calling for an end to human rights violations in China and made a request of support to the Government's Human Rights Subcommittee.

The request included a statement from a Chinese labour camp detainee and torture victim who now lives in Australia.

Falun Gong practitioners delivered over 5,000 petitions to Parliament House which were to be given to Prime Minister, Mr John Howard. The petitions asked Mr Howard to discuss with Premier Wen the reports of a secret death camp in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where detained Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs.

Amidst a backdrop of banners and re-enactments of some of the torture methods used by police against the Falun Gong practitioners a press conference was held where Falun Gong practitioner Ms Rubacek spoke of the overwhelming support shown by the Australian public for the end of the ongoing human rights atrocities inside China.

A testimony that was brought to the attention of the Human Rights Subcommittee, from Mr Pan Yu, a Chinese labour camp survivor, was read at the press conference by Mr Hu Jian of The Chinese Epoch Times. It told of Mr Pan's 30-day detention and interrogation in Beijing in 2000, followed by his relocation to Shenyang, the provincial site of recent allegations of a concealed death camp where Falun Gong practitioners are executed for the growing organ transplant trade.

The statement recounted the methods used in his 'reform'; "Because I did not want to denounce my practice, policemen kicked and hit me like madmen. My eyes were bruised and bleeding, my entire face was swollen and my lips split. I could not stand up."

Mr Pan said that on one occasion the police violently assaulted him continuously for two days and he was not permitted to sleep.

"They tried to destroy my spirit, keep me awake for 24 hours a day for fear of being beaten."

According to his statement when these methods failed to force him to renounce his beliefs, electric batons with a charge of 40,000 watts were then used.

"As soon as the baton would make contact (with) me, I would lose control of my bodily functions, rendering me incontinent. They also applied the electric baton to my face and my head, which made me feel as though I wanted to die, but I would just hold on. In the end, they applied the baton to the most sensitive spot on my inner leg. The pain was indescribable"

After ongoing torture from by the police with the electric batons Mr Pan renounced his belief in Falun Gong.

"I could not bear any more. I was forced to write the words: "I will not appeal, I will no longer practice." This was my horrendous 'transformation'."

Mr Pan's testimony also named the People's Republic of China's Commerce Minister Bo Xilai as the administrator responsible of the human rights abuses against him and thousands of other Chinese citizens.

Minister Bo is expected to accompany the Chinese Premier, whose Australian visit will include the national capital on April 3, the date of the next directions hearing in the Falun Gong lawsuit seeking to restrain the issuing of certificates by the Australian Foreign Minister, which restrict methods of peaceful protest regarding the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

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