Press Release - May 26, 2006 European Falun Gong Information Centre
Brussels (EFGIC) - Following a three-day visit to Beijing, the Vice President of
the European Parliament, Edward McMillan-Scott, called the Chinese Communist
leadership a "brutal, arbitrary and paranoid system" at a press conference in
Hong Kong on Wednesday, and said that the EU would keep putting pressure on
China to improve human rights and religious freedom.
After having met with various diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and
individuals including Falun Gong practitioners, who are ruthlessly persecuted by
the CCP regime, McMillan-Scott concluded that, despite economic advancements,
there hasn't been any improvement for human rights and freedom in China.
Program to encourage Democracy and Human Rights
McMillan-Scott announced the introduction by the European Commission of a
program to encourage and assist the process of democracy and human rights in
countries including China, through cooperation with local groups.
"One of the elements of my visit to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is to try to
establish whether there are ways that have not yet been tried of finding people
within China, in particular, who have the capacity to act.
"We have an opportunity in the next couple of years to keep pushing. My presence
here, I hope, will begin to give my thoughts and insights into what really goes
on and sensitively to work out ways in which people in China can begin to have
some hope that things will change," he said.
Europe's Call for Freedom for the Chinese
Since the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party by the
Chinese version of The Epoch Times over a year ago, more than 10 million Chinese
publicly resigned from the CCP and its affiliations. This unprecedented event
marks clearly how China chose to have a future without the CCP. As the
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China has kept on escalating ever
since it was launched in 1999 by Jiang Zemin, more and more people have seen
through the viciousness and the lies of the CCP regime, and stand against the
persecution of innocent fellow Chinese.
It is remarkable and admirable that Europe, despite tremendous economic and
political pressure from the CCP, extends its help to the Chinese people through
this democracy program. The European Falun Gong Information Centre calls out to
the Chinese people, on the Mainland and abroad, to grasp this signal of support,
and completely break free from the CCP's brutal oppression.
Beijing meeting interpreter arrested, others still missing
The interpreter for a meeting with individuals in Beijing, a Western citizen,
was arrested by CCP agents right after the meeting with McMillan-Scott and
aggressively interrogated for 24 hours before being sent back to his country.
The whereabouts of several other people involved in the meeting, including Niu
Jinping and his daughter, both severely persecuted Falun Gong practitioners,
remain unknown.
"We have enough reason to believe all of these people are in hands of the
Chinese regime right now and face life danger" said EFGIC spokesperson Nicolas
Schols. "We call upon the international community to investigate these arrests
and help rescue our friends in Beijing, and demand the Chinese regime to proceed
with their immediate release."
Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200605/33318.html
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