Information on Falun Gong and the persecution in China. 2011.
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By a Clearwisdom correspondent in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, people at every level of the Communist regime have participated in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in order to achieve personal gain and power. However, regardless of who they are, sooner or later, those who take part in persecuting cultivators of the Buddha Fa will be subject to heavenly retribution. The following are a few of the many cases of officials who received retribution as a result of their participation in the persecution.
Village Head Receives Karmic Retribution That Extends to His Family
An Shanpo, head of Beijia Village in Jiacun Town, Wangdou County, Hebei Province, actively participated in the persecution. When practitioners clarified the facts to him, he refused to listen and often brought agents to practitioners’ homes to harass and arrest them. Just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, he brought a dozen officials from the town government and police station to arrest Ms. Zhou Yanli. Because no one was at home, the officials went out to the fields to look for her. When they found Ms. Zhou, they beat her. Because it had just rained, the ground was muddy and Ms. Zhou was covered in mud. Due to the beating her face was swollen and her body was covered in bruises. She was then taken away and locked up in the Wangdu County Detention Center for three months.
In 2010, 59-year-old An Shanpo had a stroke and half of his body became paralyzed. Then his son was involved in a fatal car accident. Several people were killed and injured and the son had to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan in compensation. An Shanpo died at the end of November 2011.
Only Son of the Head of the Department of Justice Dies in a Car Accident
The Shanxi Province Department of Justice controls the labor camps and prisons where practitioners are persecuted. In April 2008, Wang Shuicheng became head of the Justice Department and assisted the Shanxi Province 610 Office in persecuting practitioners. Even today, he continues to persecute practitioners.
From 2000 to 2003, Wang Shuicheng was head of the Propaganda Department for Yuncheng City. He gave orders to media outlets controlled by the department—such as magazines and TV stations—to deliberately disseminate slander about Falun Gong and knowingly spread lies to the public.
His son died in a car accident at the end of November 2011.
Farm Party Secretary Suffers Retribution for His Evil Deeds
Zhang Jisheng from Tanghai County in Hebei Province was born in 1957. When he became Party secretary of Wunongchang in 2001, he gave orders to persecute practitioners in his jurisdiction, including following and monitoring them, setting up brainwashing sessions, arranging their illegal arrests and detention, and sending them to forced labor camps.
Zhang Jisheng was transferred to another location several years ago. Currently he is the supervisor of the Tanghai County Swampland Management Office. According to reliable sources, when Zhang was Party secretary of Wunongchang, he sold land belonging to the regime and embezzled all the money from the sale. His crime was discovered, and now Zhang has been sentenced to prison for corruption and bribery.
Posting date: 1/19/2012
Category: Evil Provokes Karmic Retribution
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/12/18/丧失良知迫害法轮功-中共官员遭恶报-250705.html
November 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
By Clearwisdom correspondent Tang En
(Clearwisdom.net) After being detained for seventeen months, Mr. Vu Duc Trung and his brother-in-law Mr. Le Van Thanh, Falun Gong practitioners in Vietnam, were sentenced to three years and two years in prison, respectively, on November 10, 2011. They had been put on trial for sending short wave signals of Sound of Hope radio programs to Mainland China. The Vietnamese government’s mistreatment and sentencing of Falun Gong practitioners and its caving in to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has triggered concern and condemnation in the international community.
International human rights organizations and other human rights organizations around the world have condemned the Vietnamese government for the detention of Falun Gong practitioners and infringement on their freedom of speech in the past year. Upon learning of the sentence, Falun Gong practitioners in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Taiwan, Korea, Australia and other countries protested at Vietnamese embassies and consulates.
Mr. Vu Duc Trung, 31, CEO of a high-tech company in Hanoi, and Mr. Le Van Thanh, 36, were arrested and detained by the Department of Police and the Ministry of Public Security in June 2011.
Mr. Vu Duc Trung
Ms. Doris Chen, the spokesperson for Sound of Hope in Sydney, said that Mr. Vu and Mr. Le exposed the crimes of the CCP to the Chinese society, including the persecution of Falun Gong and the CCP’s forcibly harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. She also said that what they did didn’t harm the Vietnamese people or government and was legal, based on Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Sending short wave radio signals does not violate criminal law in Vietnam. The broadcast to Mainland China broke the information blockade by the CCP, which angered the CCP and had them put pressure on the Vietnamese government. By detaining and sentencing the practitioners, the Vietnamese government yielded completely to the CCP.
On October 5, 2011, Freedom House condemned China’s use of diplomatic pressure to engage in further crackdowns on religious minorities and to restrict freedom of expression outside of its borders. On the same day, Reporters Without Borders also released an article condemning the Vietnamese government’s actions towards the two Falun Gong practitioners.
Falun Gong practitioners and human rights groups gathered in front of the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington D.C. on October 4, 2011, to protest the detention of Falun Gong practitioners.
Voice of Vietnamese Americans (VVA) issued a statement on November 4, urging the Vietnamese government to respect freedom of speech and religion, follow the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and release the detained Falun Gong practitioners.
A two-day human rights dialogue was held between the U.S. and Vietnam starting on November 9, 2011. Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, and the Falun Dafa Association in Washington D.C. issued statements condemning the Vietnamese government’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, and called for the American government to help the two Vietnamese Falun Gong practitioners gain freedom.
Mark Toner, Deputy Spokesman of the U.S Department of State, called the dialogue “exactly an opportunity for them to discuss a range of human rights issues between Vietnam and the U.S.” Another official of the State Department said the U.S. had clear standing on the issue of Falun Gong as well as the human rights problems in China and Vietnam. Both China and Vietnam were on the list of Countries of Particular Concern of the recent IRF report.
Falun Gong practitioners protest the imprisonment of practitioners by the Vietnamese government during the U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue on November 9, 2011.
New York-based Human Rights Watch called the sentencing of Mr. Le and Mr. Vu, “a violation of freedom of expression.” “Vietnam should not violate human rights and punish its own citizens merely because their activism displeased China,” Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Asia director said in a statement.
“This is a sad day for Vietnam,” said Falun Gong spokesman Erping Zhang. “Sentencing Trung and Thanh to prison in a show trial is shameless and sets a dangerous precedent of the Vietnamese government caving to Chinese Communist Party pressure,” says Zhang. “We hope the international community can redouble its efforts to free these men immediately and use whatever leverage possible to ensure that the Vietnamese authorities stop abusing local Falun Gong practitioners.”
Falun Gong was spread to Vietnam in 2006. In recent years, Vietnam has bowed to the CCP’s influence. While Falun Gong is officially legal in Vietnam, the state has put systematic pressure on Falun Gong practitioners. A document issued by the Vietnamese government in April 2011 indicated its suppression of Falun Gong is due to pressure from the CCP. The Vietnamese police beat and dispersed about fifty Falun Gong practitioners who were protesting peacefully in front of the Chinese Embassy on November 8.
Posting date: 11/20/2011
Category: More Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/11/18/各界谴责越南冤判法轮功学员（图）-249539.html
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October 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
By a Falun Gong practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Not long ago I ran into an old friend that I hadn’t seen for a long time. He used to be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary. When we talked about Falun Gong, since I knew he was a Party member for years, I was surprised to hear him making the following heartfelt remarks.
He said, “Talking about Falun Gong, I really know a lot about practitioners. I was in charge of this. After I retired, I was selected to be in charge of Falun Gong practitioners in our neighborhood. Frankly speaking, at that time I listened to the regime’s lies and monitored practitioners for any possible kind of ‘big’ things they might do. After observing them during these last two years, I’ve changed my mind. My observation of practitioners has proved to me that my previous notions were wrong. Falun Gong is really great, and practitioners are just extraordinary! I know very well that the regime has used all kinds of methods to persecute Falun Gong. And what has the outcome been? After all these years, they have not only failed to ‘defeat Falun Gong,’ but is helping to overthrow themselves. Heaven’s will can’t be disobeyed!
He continued, “From the central government to the local governments, every level of the CCP has ruthlessly suppressed Falun Gong. The crackdown campaign is even worse than the ‘Cultural Revolution,’ the ‘Three Anti’s Campaign,’ or the ‘Five Anti’s Campaign.’ The regime arrests and savagely beats practitioners, extorts money from them, sentences them to prison and forced labor camps, and even the practitioners’ family members are implicated. It is simply overwhelming. And then guess what happened? The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published. All the evil deeds committed by the communist regime were so thoroughly laid out. Many people have read the book—it is so moving to read it! There are indeed some very capable Falun Gong practitioners. The book very thoroughly reveals the truth.”
I said, “You are right, the communist regime is very extreme in doing evil things. You have been a Party official for so many years, and you know firsthand about the evil nature of the communist regime.”
He said, “In the past, while I was still inside the system, I didn’t truly realize the extent of its evil nature. But now, I have gradually come to understand it. The regime is completely finished, and nothing can save it. I really admire Falun Gong practitioners now. In my opinion, even dozens or hundreds of Party members can’t be compared with one Falun Gong practitioner.” I said, “No, not even a thousand members.”
I asked him, “Did you quit the Party?” He asked, “Did you?” I answered, “Yes.” He said, “Me, too.”
I smiled, “That’s great. If you quit the Party, you will be safe.” He also smiled and agreed, “That’s right! That’s right!”
Posting date: 10/10/2011
Category: Awakening to the Truth
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/10/5/一位原中共邪党书记的心里话-247518.html
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