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Liu Chengjun, One of the First to Broadcast The Facts of the Persecution Over Chinese State-Run TV, Dies as a Result of Torture (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Liu Chengjun from the city of Changchun is one of the practitioners responsible for tapping into the local television network to broadcast the truth of the persecution against Falun Gong on March 5^th, 2002, an event that shocked the world. After enduring cruel torture in prison for one year and nine months, Liu Chengjun passed away at the Jilin University Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital at 4 a.m. on December 26, 2003. On the same day, the Jilin Prison gathered large groups of police and forcibly cremated the body at 11 a.m. The cremation was done without an autopsy and against the family's wishes. Eyewitnesses stated that Liu Chengjun's body had bloodstains near the nostrils, ears, thighs, and other areas.

San Francisco Falun Gong practitioners to Hold A Memorial for Liu Chengjun in Front of the Chinese Consulate

(San Francisco, Dec. 28, 2003) -- Bay Area Falun Gong practitioners will hold a memorial for Chengjun Liu in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco at 1:00 PM Monday, December 29, 2003. Liu died on Friday December 26 in Jilin University hospital after 21 months of torture in jail. Liu was the first person that tapped into the state-run Chinese TV and broadcasted a video revealing the persecution of Falun Gong in Changchun China on March 5, 2002. This TV broadcasting reached hundreds of thousands of Chinese and was well reported by world media.

Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold their First Information Day in Cuxhaven (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) On the first weekend of their Christmas holidays, Dafa practitioners from Bremen and Hamburg held the first Falun Gong information day in Cuxhaven. The purpose of this activity was to clarify the facts to people and to secure the rescue of practitioners who are illegally imprisoned in China, including Berlin university student Xiong Wei.