(Clearwisdom.net)

News and Activities around the World

According to a report from Apple's Daily on November 16, Li Zhuming, the Chairman of the Democratic Party, who is currently visiting Brussels, yesterday met Chris Patten, the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. He expressed his concern that the freedoms and human rights of Hong Kong's citizens will be severely undermined once article 23 of the basic law is passed. Wang Yaoqing, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hong Kong also went to Europe to join local Falun Gong representatives in visiting many European cities and persuading local governments to voice their opposition to the legislation of article 23.

A Taiwan health journal, Long-lasting Spring Monthly Journal interviewed Dr. Hu Naiwen, a famous Chinese medical doctor from Shanghai Tongde Hall, and published the story in its October issue. The title of the article was, Chinese medical doctor's secret recipe is open to the public. Dr. Hu, also a Falun Gong practitioner said that his recipe for preserving health is to abandon desires and attachments. He said he also practices the Falun Gong exercises to maintain correct metabolism and smooth circulation. He said that he has never needed to use his health insurance, which to a large extent is related to this recipe for preserving his health.

Persecution Facts

In December 2001, I went to Beijing Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong but was wrongfully arrested. I was later sent to the Beijing Public Security Bureau Hospital and was detained in the basement. They (policemen and doctors) tortured me using such means as forceful transfusions, beatings with electric batons, and slapping me in the face. A number of other Falun Gong practitioners were also locked in the basement. The vicious people in the hospital and criminal inmates tortured practitioners together. They forced practitioners to take ice cold baths, stripped off their clothes, and had criminal inmates tightly press practitioner's hands and feet in order to torture them. They often beat practitioners with electric batons.