New York Falun Gong practitioners to hold rally to urge PRC president Jiang Zemin to stop the bloody persecution and to call for the release of Ms. Teng Chunyan
EVENT: Demonstration in front of the Chinese Consulate
42nd Street and West Side Highway
December 13, 2000 (Wednesday)
10:00 -11:30 am
Chinese authorities have sentenced U.S. resident, Ms. Teng Chunyan, 37, to three years in jail on charges of so-called "spying for foreign intelligence organizations." The sentence was announced on the morning of December 12, Beijing time.
Ms. Teng, holds a green card, or permanent residency, in the United States and her husband is an American citizen. Her home is in New York where she practiced and taught acupuncture. Chinese authorities failed to notify her husband and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing of either her arrest or her closed-door trial on November 23 of this year.
Ms. Teng's prison sentence was handed down by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court, but sources from inside the court say that the orders actually came from 'above,' referring to the central leadership.
Ms. Teng found out that completely sane, healthy Falun Gong practitioners in China were being illegally held in mental hospitals and forcibly given harmful drugs as part of the crackdown against Falun Gong, so she helped foreign reporters to investigate what was happening.
The Chinese authorities may not want the world to know what it is doing to its own citizens, but the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China is hardly a "state secret." Almost every day for the past 17 months, tourists have seen police beating and kicking elderly men and women in Tiananmen Square in broad daylight. Tens of thousands of practitioners have also had first-hand experience of physical and mental abuse during detention.
Practitioners in the area will be holding a demonstration in front of the Chinese consulate in response to this injustice. We call on governments and media around the world to help end this violent persecution against innocent people who are simply exercising their basic human rights -- freedom of belief and assembly.
Contact: Gail Rachlin 212 501-8080 or 917 627-5762
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