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"World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" Has Tracked Down the Chinese Embassy Staff Member who Beat a Falun Gong Practitioner and Announces the Establishment of the "Committee to Investigate the Criminal Conduct of Chinese Embassies and Consulates in the Persecution of Falun Gong" 
(April 15, 2003, Toronto)

1. Case reports of students and educators tortured to death in China Since July 20, 1999, public sources have documented that 867 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death. Sixty-one of the victims worked in the education system. In the year 2003 alone, 406 practitioners were illegally detained. Most of them were teachers and scholars. A few cases are reported in detail below. For more information, please refer to the appendices. . Case 1. Student Zhang Zhenzhong, from Shandong University, is brutally murdered by police [1]. and other student...

Introduction In July 1999, Jiang Zemin initiated the suppression of a spiritual meditation practice that had gained great popularity in China since it was first introduced to the public in 1992. It spread quickly throughout the country as people began experiencing the benefits of this practice that emphasized virtue and the principles of truth, compassion, and tolerance. Jiang lacked a legitimate reason and enough supporters to suppress these practitioners who had no political objectives at all. To change public opinion and garner support, Jiang utilized all available...

Summary I. The Jiang Regime Bans All Falun Gong Publications and Spreads Anti-Falun Gong Propaganda Through Its State Controlled Media. Since Jiang Zemin sanctioned the nationwide persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, China's Ministry of Culture has diligently adhered to Jiang's dictates. On July 24, 1999, the Ministry of Culture notified all cultural management departments and audio/video management departments at all levels to immediately confiscate Falun Gong publications and prevent further production. On the afternoon of July 28, the first wave of...

Announcement of the Establishment of the "Committee to Investigate the Crimes of Chinese Labor 'Re-Education' Camps in the Persecution of Falun Gong" In June 2001, the "Wanjia tragedy" shocked both China and the world when long-term, brutal persecution at the Wanjia Labour "Re-Education" Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province led to the deaths of three Falun Gong practitioners and left twelve other practitioners on the verge of death. In January 2002, another five Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death at the same ...

Summary It is confirmed that since the former president of China Jiang Zemin issued the order to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, Chen Zhili, Minister of Education from 1998 to 2003, has been treading on Jiang's heels and became an active advocator and a willing participant in Jiang's genocide policy against Falun Gong in China's educational system. The persecution of Falun Gong has penetrated into all venues of education, including graduate schools, colleges, middle schools, primary schools, and even kindergartens, and is unprecedented in the education histor...

Overview Since the Jiang Zemin regime began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, the Chinese media has launched a propaganda campaign to slander Falun Gong, incite hatred, and deceive the Chinese people. Typically, the most influential propaganda reports are first published or broadcast on top-level national media, including China Central Television (CCTV), Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Daily, Chinese News Agency, Guangming Daily, Liberation Army News, and Chinese Youth News. The falsifications are then republished or rebroadcast in all local media. The defamatory propaganda dissem...

Introduction Jiang Zemin's regime has been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China for nearly five years since July 20, 1999. They deny the fact that they have violated Falun Gong practitioners' freedom of spiritual belief [as warranted by the Chinese Constitution]. Instead, they try to justify the persecution by claiming that Falun Gong practitioners violated the Chinese laws. On April 6, 2000, Liu Jing, the head of the CCP Central Committee "610 Office," attended the United Nations Human Rights Commission's 56th Session and had a Q&A sessio...

Through its investigation the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has confirmed the following: It is a fact that a policeman raped Wei Xingyan, Chongqing University Graduate Student, in front of onlookers at the Baihelin detention center, Shapingba district, Chongqing. It is a fact that police officers seriously damaged both her trachea and esophagus while force-feeding her and sent her to the Southwest hospital for emergency treatment. It is also a fact that Chongqing University blocked all files and information about Wei Xingyan and her major...

The Security Department at China's Southwestern University of Political Science and Law Confirms: Wei Xingyan is a Student of Chongqing University. Boston, June 6, 2003 -- After receiving a report of the brutal rape, botched force-feedings, and other forms of persecution of Wei Xingyan, a Falun Gong practitioner and a 28-year-old female graduate student, by a police officer in the Baihelin Detention Center of Shapingba District, Chongqing City, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong ("WOIPFG" immediately launched a vigorous investigation...