(Clearwisdom.net) On May 10, 2007, the reception lobby of the Beijing Women's Prison was cleaned until spotless and beautifully decorated with many fresh flowers. Several dozen inmates, four selected from each ward, met their family members there, each presenting a bouquet of carnations to their mothers, who had come for a visit. "The hall was filled with harmony and human emotion," which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had propagated. The Beijing TV Station (BTV) news crews filmed this "touching" scene.
However, this meticulously planned "touching" scene was nothing but a political ploy dictated to the prison officials from above. It was another deceptive trick, cooked up by BTV to lead people to believe the "humanitarian civilized management of prisons" by the CCP. This was done in response to the international community's increasing condemnations of China's human rights abuses.
Creating false news and directing farces are commonplace among China's journalists and government officials at various levels, all of whom are quite skilled in this respect. Yet, even as this farce was being carried out in the reception lobby, a hunger strike to protect human rights and to protest the persecution of Falun Gong had gone into its 73rd day in the prison's Intensive Training Team. Practitioner Ms. Zhou Zi, in order to protest the battering and assaults inflicted on practitioners by the guards at will and the fact that the prison authorities pretended to investigate but actually harbored evildoers, started a hunger strike on February 26, 2007. The hunger strike had lasted 81 days by May 17, 2007.
While the farce was going on, a guard near the film crew had with him a "report letter:" "Reporting the facts on how someone at the Beijing Women's Prison murdered Falun Dafa practitioner Dong Cuifang." One paragraph in this letter stated, "The mother of Ms. Dong Cuifang (also known as Dong Cui) rushed to the Beijing Women's Prison that very night and saw large black and blue patches on her daughter's body that was also covered with cuts and bruises. The muscles on her right shoulder blade had become separated from the bone."
Justice will defeat evil in the end, and all the crimes that have been covered up will be exposed. Ms. Zhou Zi has been on a hunger strike for 81 days. We call on kindhearted people both inside and outside of China and organizations that uphold justice to extend their support to stop this persecution.
