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Taiwan: Press Conference Held in Taichung to Condemn the Shooting Incident in South Africa (Photos)

July 18, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 14, 2004, to support Falun Gong practitioners from Australia who were attacked by a gunman in South Africa on June 28, 2004, a press conference was held in Taichung, Taiwan in front of Taichung Train Station to condemn the Jiang faction's hiring assassins to attack people overseas. Many people devoted to human rights, including He Min-Hao, member of the Legislative Committee, Guo Lin-Yong, Director of Lawyer's Association, Chu Wan-Qi, attorney for the Global Public Trial of Jiang Zemin, Liu Cheng-Yi, Provost of Chung Hsing University, Ai Chang-Rui, professor in the Department of Business Management of Chung Cheng University, participated in the press conference. All condemned the Jiang faction for exporting its state terrorism overseas.

To expose Jiang faction's hiring assassins to attack peaceful Falun Gong practitioners overseas, Falun Gong practitioners explained the shooting incident in South Africa using reports from mainstream media worldwide, photos and a dramatization. Torture methods being used in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China were also exhibited.


He Min-Hao, member of the Legislative Committee

Guo Lin-Yong, Director of the Lawyer's Association

Ai Chang-Rui, Professor in the Department of Business Management, Chung Cheng University

Torture exhibition showing "Tiger Bench"

Torture exhibition showing "Being confined in a solitary compartment"

Torture exhibition showing "Force-feeding"

Torture exhibition showing "Tied with rope"

Torture exhibition showing "Poking nails with sharp bamboo sticks"

Passers-by are shocked upon looking at the torture methods used in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners

To safeguard righteousness and basic human rights, passers-by sign the signature collection book

Falun Gong practitioners call on the world's people to condemn the Jiang group's state terrorism

Signature collection in Taiwan to safeguard righteousness and basic human rights

Besides attending the press conference, Member He of the Legislative Committee read a press release to condemn strongly the Jiang faction's terrorist act of hiring assassins to kill people overseas. He said, "The endless persecution of human rights in China must be continuously condemned and investigated." Later he signed the petition for "Stopping Jiang Regime's Global Terrorism".

Chu Wan-Qi, attorney in Taiwan for the "Global Public Trial of Jiang Zemin," said that the shooting incident in South Africa was more than an attempted murder, but pointed to the Jiang group's attempt to eradicate belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance". She said, "We are not against the Chinese government. But we hope kind-hearted people will oppose such an international human rights persecution and prevent the Jiang group from exporting the terrorism overseas."

Guo Lin-Yong, Director of the Lawyers Association, said that the practice Falun Gong should be protected. He called on South Africa to find out the assassins and plot behind their activities.

A Falun Gong practitioner with last name Hsie, who was an actor in the torture exhibition, said, "I suffered a lot just bending over there for thirty minutes. My whole body became numb. You can imagine how much the Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China are suffering."

The host of the press conference, Prof. Chong Gu-Lan, pointed out that Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has lasted about five years and that more than a thousand practitioners were tortured to death. The largest scale and most severe incidents of torture in this century are continuing in China. Now Jiang's faction exports the persecution to free countries overseas, which is a challenge to human beings' freedom and peace. Falun Gong practitioners called on the world's people to condemn the Jiang faction's state terrorism.