FALUN GONG SENDS OUT "SOS" FOLLOWING FOUR MORE DEATHS IN CUSTODY
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(7/6/01 09:00)
(Falun Dafa Information Center) July 6 - The Falun Dafa Information Center
has confirmed that four more male Falun Gong practitioners have been killed
while in police custody in China. Following on the heels of the verification
that 15 women recently died in the Wanjia labor camp in Harbin, these new
deaths bring to 255 the total number of Falun Gong practitioners killed as a
result of the crackdown. The four men died in separate incidents in
different parts of China.
"This latest report indicates that Jiang Zemin's regime is systematically
killing Falun Gong practitioners," said Falun Gong spokesperson Adam
Montanaro.
"'Beating [Falun Gong practitioners] to death should be reported as suicide
-- Policemen in different labor camps are repeating these instructions
handed down from above," he said.
Mr. Montanaro pointed out that, in the last few weeks, reports of
practitioners being killed are arriving on an almost daily basis. To
counteract this dramatic increase in police violence, Falun Gong
practitioners and their supporters have launched a campaign entitled: "SOS!
Urgent Call to Rescue the Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in China."
This campaign "seeks to draw the attention of the international community to
the on-going and systematic slaughter of innocent people," Mr. Montanaro
said. As part of this campaign, Falun Gong practitioners in the United
States have embarked on a walk to Washington D.C. starting from several
major cities and culminating in a large-scale rally on July 19th. Falun Gong
practitioners have posted their daily progress and photos on
www.walktodc.org.
Details of the four new deaths:
On July 1 or 2, 41-year old Chen Jiafu died at Zhoushuizi labor camp in
Dalian City, marking the first confirmed death in the month of July.
Between May 2 to 15, 2001, 28-year old Mr. Song Yanzhao was beaten until his
ribs were broken at Lanzhou Pinantai labor camp in Gansu Province. He died
from severe injuries. Staff members at the camp revealed that Song Yanzhao
had been hung on a 2-meter high iron bedstead for a whole night before he
died.
At the end of May 2001, 40-year old farmer Mr. Liu Xuedong from the Shenxing
section of Baoding City, Hebei province, was released from four months in a
detention center. He died the day after he was released. He weighed only 25
kg when he died, and his body was covered with bruises.
Before the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) of 2001, Mr. Zhao Maoxing from
Chengzi Town, Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province, was beaten to death by the
police after he was captured on his way to Tiananmen Square and escorted
back to Jiangxi province. People who know about the incident said that Zhang
's body was still handcuffed to the bed when he died, and that he was
covered with torture wounds when he was sent from the hospital to the
crematory.
Spokesperson Adam Montanaro said the number of Falun Gong practitioners who
are tortured to death is rapidly escalating, and that Jiang Zemin's regime
announced new judicial guidelines against Falun Gong on June 10 that provide
a legal justification for this kind of murder. Such guidelines have
emboldened officials in detention centers to step up torture, he said.
Chinese police will be conducting statewide checks on rented apartments and
the transient population from July 3 to July 15, reportedly to check for
released criminals. According to credible sources, this action is in fact a
plan to carry out mass arrests of the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners
who have been left homeless as a result of the crackdown.
(7/6/01 09:00)
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