Top 10 Things You Should Know about the Beijing Olympics and Falun Gong
10 Jun 2008
China’s Olympic Committee President was found liable for torture
To prepare for the Olympics, Chinese security ordered a “strike hard” against Falun Gong.
Falun Gong practitioners are being killed in custody faster and more frequently than before.
Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners around China have been arrested “in preparation” for the games.
Falun Gong practitioners are officially excluded from the Games because of religious belief, in clear violation of the Olympic Charter.
Falun Gong has never taken a position on an Olympic boycott.
A “clean up” of districts hosting Olympic venues has included the arrest of local residents who practice Falun Gong.
Despite ostensibly freer regulations for foreign journalists, Falun Gong remains taboo.
Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners will experience the Olympics from inside labor camps, where they are often tortured.
Most Chinese are unaware of any of the above because independent information about Falun Gong remains blocked inside China.
(1) China’s Olympic Committee President was found liable for torture
In 2004, a U.S. federal court found that Liu Qi, the man heading Beijing’s Olympic Organizing Committee, was responsible for the torture of Falun Gong adherents during his tenure as Beijing’s mayor from 1999 to 2002.
According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, which publicized the case in April 2008: “In an extensive legal opinion, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco determined in 2004 that Liu Qi was responsible for the illegal detention and torture of two Chinese nationals and a sexual assault against a French woman in China.”The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Center for Justice and Accountability, presented evidence that as mayor, Liu directed security forces to violently crush Falun Gong. In addition, police under his command subjected the plaintiffs and other Falun Gong adherents in Beijing to severe beatings, sexual abuse, and ‘electric shocks through needles placed in [the] body.’
For more information visit: http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/node/3625
For a summary of the case and relevant legal documents visit: http://www.cja.org/cases/liuqi.shtml
(2) To prepare for the Olympics, Chinese security ordered a “strike hard” against Falun Gong.
According to Amnesty International, in preparing for the Games, Former Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang issued the following order in the context of “successfully holding the 17th Communist Party Congress [in October 2007] and the Beijing Olympic Games”:
“We must strike hard at hostile forces at home and abroad, such as ethnic separatists… and ‘heretical organizations’
like the Falun Gong.”See: http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170522007?open&of=ENG-2S2
(3) Falun Gong practitioners are being killed in custody faster and more frequently than before.
Within the first three months of 2008, the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC) documented six cases of practitioner deaths occurring within merely 16 days of arrest and in some cases, within hours. By comparison, in 2007, it was over the course of the entire year that the same number died within such a short time in custody. In several of the recent cases, family members were able to view the body before its cremation and saw signs of torture, including strangulation marks or bruises from electric shock batons.
One of the most prominent victims was Mr. Yu Zhou, 42, a musician who was arrested with his wife Ms. Xu Na at the end of January on their way home from a performance by his band. Eleven days after their arrest, the authorities notified their family members to come to Qinghe Emergency Center, where they found Yu already dead. He had been in good health before his detention, but the hospital refused to conduct an autopsy. Ms. Xu, who was released in 2006 after serving five years in prison for practicing Falun Gong, remains in custody.
According to The London Times, which reported on Yu’s death: “[T]here has been lively discussion among music fans on Chinese websites over the fate of the singer Yu Zhou, 42. “Another beautiful soul has left the world,” commented one distraught fan….Yu won a following among young Chinese for his mellow folk ballads. His group, Xiao Juan and Residents from the Valley, released two successful CDs and appeared on the Phoenix television channel.For more information on the recent surge in deaths in custody, see:
http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9518
For The London Times’ coverage of Yu Zhou’s case, see:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article3779899.ece
(4) Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners around China have been arrested “in preparation” for the games.
Following orders such as Zhou Yongkang’s (see #2 above), Chinese security agencies have been conducting large-scale arrests of Falun Gong adherents throughout China in recent months as authorities step up efforts to “stamp out” the practice in advance of the Olympic Games in August.
Since January, the FDIC has been receiving regular reports from adherents and their families inside China of door-to-door searches and arrests. According to statistics compiled from these reports, there have been at least 2,000 arrests across 29 provinces, major cities, and autonomous regions. In Beijing alone, over 150 arrests are known to have taken place.
See: http://www.faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=9517
NOTE: A follow-up report with up-to-date statistics and details will be released shortly.
(5) Falun Gong practitioners are officially excluded from the Games because of religious belief, in clear violation of the Olympic Charter.
Throughout 2007, several statements by top officials, as well as an internal document, indicated that Falun Gong adherents from both inside and outside China will be excluded from participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as athletes, coaches, journalists or spectators. Such a policy that discriminates on the basis of religious belief contravenes both the Olympic charter as well as the code of ethics signed in Beijing in April 2007.
One official admission of the intent to exclude foreigners who practice Falun Gong from the games was provided by Li Zhanjun, director of the Beijing Olympics media center, in November 2007.
While rejecting allegations that the Chinese authorities intended to limit the entry of Bibles for personal religious use, Li singled out Falun Gong texts as an exception. As reported by the Associated Press: “We don’t recognize it [Falun Gong]… So Falun Gong texts, Falun Gong activities in China are forbidden.”
For more information see: http://faluninfo.net/downloads/FDI_Press/FDI-FACTSHEET-OLEX.doc
See also: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/08/sports/AS-SPT-OLY-Beijing-Bibles.php
(6) Falun Gong has never taken a position on an Olympic boycott.
As a spiritual practice, Falun Gong in and of itself does not take a stance on issues such as whether or not to boycott the Olympics. Yet, individual adherents are entitled to take their own positions and make statements accordingly. Nevertheless, such views represent the opinion of that particular individual, rather than Falun Gong as a whole.
What the FDIC is concerned about is the escalation of abuses and extrajudicial killings of practitioners ahead of the games, and indeed, because of the games. There is ample evidence, including points presented in this document, that shows how China’s communist leaders are using the Olympic games as a reason to intensify the campaign to ‘eradicate’ Falun Gong.
(7) A “clean up” of districts hosting Olympic venues has included the arrests of local residents who practice Falun Gong. Between December 2007 and March 2008, at least 16 Falun Gong adherents had been arrested from Chaoyang District alone, which is set to host the beach volleyball and tennis events, and 10 from Shunyi district, the site of the Olympic rowing and kayaking venues. In total, over 156 practitioners in Beijing and at least 1,878 nationwide have been rounded up during this time period.
According to reports received by the FDIC, many of the arrests have followed a common pattern. Officers from the local police station or Public Security Bureau (PSB) branch come to the adherent’s home or workplace, conduct a search for any Falun Gong-related materials, and take the individual into custody at the district detention center.
In some cases, family members or co-workers who do not practice Falun Gong have been taken into custody as well.
The systematic nature of the arrests suggests that authorities are using a previously compiled list of local adherents – a common practice of the PSB. According to former PSB agent Hao Fengjun, who currently resides in Australia, authorities in the city of Tianjin, where Hao formerly worked, had a database of 30,000 Falun Gong practitioners’ names.
For a list of 67 adherents detained in Beijing as of March 2008, including the above-mentioned 16, visit:
http://www.faluninfo.net/downloads/FDI_Press/Olympics%20arrests%20-%203-12-1.pdf
(8) Despite ostensibly freer regulations for foreign journalists, Falun Gong remains taboo.
The Chinese government issued temporary regulations for foreign journalists in January 2007. The directives, in place until October 2008, reduce travel restrictions and the need for pre-approval of interviews. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), however, in practice “the government continues to interfere with foreign reporters,” particularly regarding taboo topics like Tibet or Falun Gong.
The following is an excerpt from a recent CPJ report illustrating the official obstacles placed before reporters seeking to cover Falun Gong: Bracing for the 21,500 accredited and 5,000 to 10,000 unaccredited foreign journalists who will descend on Beijing for the Games, China’s Olympic planners have issued police an English phrasebook. It gives some indication of the welcome that foreign journalists will receive. In a section titled, “How to Stop Illegal News Coverage,” the practice dialogue features a police officer confronting a reporter who tries to cover a story on the outlawed religious group Falun Gong.
“Excuse me, sir. Stop, please,” says the officer politely but firmly, before explaining in impressively advanced English: “It’s beyond the limit of your coverage and illegal. As a foreign reporter in China you should obey China law and do nothing against your status.” “Oh, I see. May I go now?” says the visiting reporter hopefully. “No. Come with us,” the officer is told to reply at this point. “What for?” “To clear up this matter.”
For the original report from which this excerpt is taken and a full discussion of press freedom violations ahead of the Olympic Games, see “Falling Short” at: http://cpj.org/Briefings/2007/Falling_Short/China/10_2.html
(9) Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners will experience the Olympics from inside labor camps, where they are often tortured. Sentencing without trial to “re-education through labor” camps remains one of the most prevalent ways in which the Chinese authorities punish people for praticing Falun Gong. According to the U.S. State Department’s 2007 report on human rights in China: “Some foreign observers estimated that Falun Gong adherents constituted at least half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in reeducation-through-labor camps, while Falun Gong sources overseas placed the number even higher.”
Adherents are usually picked up by police from their home, workplace, or while attempting to distribute leaflets about the practice and the persecution against it. After being held in a detention center, they are sentenced to a labor camp. They are never brought before a judge and most are denied the right to employ a lawyer. According to Amnesty International:
“The decision to assign a person to RTL is taken by the police, without charge or trial. People can be detained for up to three years, which can be extended by a further year when necessary…[I]n the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing police have used abusive detention practices such as RTL to ‘clean up’ the city.”Once in a labor camp, Falun Gong adherents are beaten, deprived of sleep, and tortured, including with electric shock batons, in order to force them to recant their faith. In 2006, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture reported that Falun Gong practitioners accounted for 66 percent of victims of alleged torture in custody.
For two stories Falun Gong practitioners who had been detained in an RTL, see: Daily Mirror: “Annie Yang reveals Olympic torch guards place her into labour camp”: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/12/annie-yang–
reveals-olympic-torch-guards-place-her-into-labour-camp-89520-20380214/
For information about Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner detained in a Beijing labor camp for whose release Amnesty International is campaigning, and to write an appeal letter on his behalf, see:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/052/2007/en/dom-ASA170522007en.html
(10) Most Chinese are unaware of any of the above because independent information about Falun Gong remains blocked inside China. For the majority of Chinese people, their only source of information about Falun Gong is the state-run media or government sponsored websites, all of which have been used to vilify Falun Gong and deny rights abuses. Domestic journalists receive specific directives forbidding independent reporting on the topic.
On the internet, Falun Gong and related terms remain among the most highly filtered by the “Great Chinese Firewall.”
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists: “A Web search for “Falun Gong,” […] would not draw a blank, but it would yield carefully vetted sites that present the government-approved line.”
Websites such as the FDIC’s, that are run by overseas Falun Gong practitioners and include information about rights abuses, are inaccessible from inside China. So are the sites of independent rights organizations like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. Even discussion of the issue over Instant Messenger is prevented by filters built-in when Chinese IM software is downloaded (see below).
The only way to access independent information about Falun Gong from inside China is with a proxy server used to circumvent censorship, a technological luxury that remains out of the reach of most Chinese.
As a result, though they live in China, many Chinese remain oblivious to the nonviolent nature of Falun Gong adherents or to the brutality meted out against them.
For a brief explanation of online censorship in China, see:
http://cpj.org/Briefings/2007/Falling_Short/China/9_2.html
For a list of censored words integrated into downloadable IM software (20% of which relate to Falun Gong), see:
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2004/08/the-words-you-never-see-in-chinese-cyberspace/
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Nova flor profética surgirá por todo Mundo anunciando personificação de um ser iluminado na Terra.
New prophetical flower will blossom all over, announcing the personification of a Light being on Earth.
Pluricontinental spring up of the prophetical Hibiscus Nipo-brasiliensies. Eng x Port .
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Alguns anos atrás a flor mais fedorenta do Mundo conhecida como Titan arum, surgiu nos Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Itália, e seu surgimento foi noticiado pelos quatro da Terra através da imprensa.
Mas há alguns meses atrás, surgiu na China uma raríssima espécie de flor conhecida como Udumbara, e de acordo com os ensinamentos budistas, o surgimento desta flor acontece a cada três mil anos e seu objetivo é prenunciar a personificação de um verdadeiro Ser iluminado em um planeta, mas a noticia do surgimento desta flor profética foi censurada pelo regime ditatorial do governo Chinês.
Como realmente a Mãe Natureza é sábia, livre e soberana, no intuito de evitar qualquer tipo de censura, a Mãe Natureza permitirá que uma nova espécie de flor surja por todo nosso planeta com o mesmo objetivo da flor Udumbara.
E assim sendo, com a sua permissão estou entrando em seu lar para lhe pedir que dê as boas – vindas ao Hibiscus Nipo-brasiliensies que está prestes a desabrochar por toda parte, prenunciando e confirmando o surgimento de um verdadeiro Ser iluminado aqui na Terra, e o palco de sua avatarização será a cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
Este Ser iluminado personificará aqui na Terra com a incumbência de conduzir a nova fase da transição planetária, quando a Terra precisará ser preparada para ser visitada e salva pela intervenção de treze Astronaves.
E neste entrementes da preparação de nosso planeta para este evento cósmico, o aroma desta flor proporcionará uma diversidade de curas para todos ao redor do mundo, e o desaparecimento definitivo do câncer de mama da face da Terra será o presente de valor inestimável que o surgimento desta flor trará para todas as mulheres.
Desta forma, o desabrochar desta raríssima espécie de flor dependerá da previa circulação deste assunto através da imprensa, e para melhor esclarecimento, esta flor já existe por todo planeta Terra, e o que ocorrerá será uma espontânea mutação genética na estrutura interna de suas pétalas.
Daí, esta mutação resultará em uma flor com cinco pétalas multicoloridas onde a cor da última, unida à penúltima, resulta nas cores da bandeira japonesa, e embora tenhamos muitos outros países cujas bandeiras trazem as cores vermelha e branca, existe razões especiais para que esta flor desabroche prestando esta singela homenagem a Terra do sol nascente.
E as quatro primeiras pétalas, no sentido horário, prestarão uma bem merecida homenagem ao Brasil “Terra de promissão”, ao desabrochar apresentando as cores de sua bandeira.
Entretanto, é uma simplíssima espécie de Hibisco que pode ser encontrado ao longo de todos os continentes, as pessoas não o valorizam, mas foi escolhido para cumprir esta missão representando todas as flores do Mundo, na inauguração desta nova fase da transição planetária na qual a natureza convidará a humanidade a estabelecer e eternizar uma Era de permutas aqui na Terra.
Quando digo Era de permutas quero dizer que durante esta verdadeira nova fase da transição planetária o desaparecimento desses vários males que desde milênios perseguem e se abatem sobre a humanidade será proporcional as ações que forem feitas pela recuperação do meio ambiente.
Dessa forma, a mãe natureza inaugurará esta Era de permutas através do surgimento desse Hibisco Nipo-brasiliensies, que surgirá por toda parte do mundo, trazendo em sua bagagem, este presente de valor incalculável que será o desaparecimento definitivo do câncer de mama na face da Terra.
Daí, em contrapartida, a partir desta nova era em diante, todas as mulheres terão que adotar e plantar uma muda de hibisco, e aquelas que nascerem o deverão fazer quando completarem cinco anos de idade.
Então, está compreendido que durante a verdadeira nova era cada ação global relacionada com a preservação, salvação e recuperação do meio ambiente será recompensada tanto com a erradicação de uma espécie de enfermidade, como com o desaparecimento de outras espécies de males.
Em suma, o surgimento pluricontinental desta flor será de caráter e objetivo edificante para toda humanidade, por que anunciará a personificação de um verdadeiro Ser iluminado aqui na Terra através do Brasil, mas o objetivo de seu surgimento precisará ser previamente anunciado através da mídia.
Então, se você gostaria de conhecer o significado da verdadeira paz mundial, e ainda tem esperança de que nosso planeta se livre de uma possível destruição total, então faça sua parte para que este assunto possa ecoar pelos quatro cantos da Terra sugerindo este site a imprensa mundial como um todo.
E objetivando evitar que as pessoas ao redor do mundo digam que eu não falei das primeiras flores, quero informar a todos que os primeiros Hibiscos Nipo-brasiliensies surgirão na Austrália onde estive em minha primeira encarnação aqui na Terra, e aqui no Brasil por todo o estado brasileiro onde eu reencarnei no ano de 1959, para continuar com a minha missão.
Some years ago, the smelliest flower of the World, the Titan Arum sprung up in the United State, England, and Italy, and its appearing was aired all over the four corners of Earth by the press.
But some months ago, a very uncommon kind of flower known as Udumbara appeared in China, and according to the Buddhist teachings, the blossom of this kind of flower occurs every three thousand years and its purpose is to preannounce the personification of a Light being on a Planet, then, the news about the appearing of this prophetical flower was censured by the dictatorial regime of the Chinese government.
As Mother Nature is really wise, free and sovereign, seeking to avoid any kind of censorship Mother Nature will allow a new kind of flower to blossom all over our planet, with the same purpose of the Udumbara flower.
However, under your permission I am getting in your home with a view of to invite you to welcome the Hibiscus Nipo-brasiliensies that is about to blossom all over, foretelling and stating the appearing of a real Light being here on Earth, and the stage of his avatarization will be city of Rio de Janeiro.
This light being will personify on Earth with the task of to lead the new step of the planetary transition, when Earth will need to be prepared to be visited and rescued by the intervention of thirteen Starships.
And in the meanwhile of the preparation of our planet for this cosmic event, the smelling of this flower will afford a diversity of healing around the world, and disappearing of the breast cancer from the face of Earth will the gift of incalculable value that the blossom of this flower will bring for all the women.
This way, the blossom of this very very uncommon kind of flower will depend on the previous spreading of this matter through the press, and for one’s best enlightenment, this flower already exists all over the planet Earth, and a spontaneous mutation in the inner structure of its petals is what will occur.
Hence, this mutation will result in a multi-color’s five petals flower, where the color of the last petal tagged to the last but one, turns out in the colors of the Japanese flag, and although we have many other countries whose flags brings the red and white color in its flag, there are special reasons that makes this flower appears paying this meek reverence to the land of rising sun.
And the first four petals, clockwise, are to pay a well deserving homage to Brazil, the “Land of Promising”, on showing the colors of Brazilian flag once blossom.
However, is a very very simple kind of Hibiscus which can be found pluricontinentally, people do not set great store on it, but was chosen to keep this mission representing all the flowers of the World, in the inauguration of this new fase of the planetary transition on which Mother nature will invite humanity to establish and eternized an age of swaps here on Earth.
When I say Age of swaps I mean that so far this real new step of the planetary transition, the disappearing of these several evils that since millenniums follows and knock down over humanity will be proportional to the actions to be done for recovering of the environment as a whole.
This way, Mother Nature will inaugurate this Age of swaps through the worldwide spring up of this Hibiscus Nipo- brasiliensies that will blossom all over Earth, bringing in its luggage, this gift of incalculable value, that will be the definitive disappearing of breast cancer from the face of Earth.
Per balancing, from this real new age on every women will have to adopt and plant a branch of hibiscus, and those who borns shall do that when they go five years old.
Then, it’s understood that so far the real new age, every global action linked to the preservation, salvation and recovering of environment will be rewarded, such with the healing or eradication of a kind of sickness, as the disappearing of other kind of evil.
In short, the pluricontinental spring up of this flower will be of edifying character and purpose for humanity, because will announce the personification of a real Light being here on Earth through Brazil, but the purpose of its appearing blossom will need to be previously spread through midia.
Then, if you would like to know the meaning of the real worldwide peace, and still hope that our planet can get rid of a possible total destruction, then do your share so that this matter can echo all over the four corners of Earth suggesting this site to the world press as a whole.
And with a view of to avoid that people around the World says that I did not speak about the first flowers, I need to let all you know that the first shall spring up over there in Australia where I had been so far my first life on Earth, and here in Brazil, the first are going to blossom all over the Brazilian State of where I reincarnate in the year of 1959, to carry on with my mission.
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