News and Activities from Around the
World -- October 5, 2005
Issued by Clearwisdom Net
On October 3, 2005, Sun Jiazheng,
the Chinese Minister of Culture, was served with legal documents from
Falun Gong
practitioners while attending unofficial activities on a visit in
Washington,
DC. The documents include the judgments against Liu Qi, mayor of
Beijing, and
Xia Deren, former deputy governor of Liaoning Province, issued by a
Northern
California Federal Court. Also in the documents was a letter from human
rights
lawyer Dr. Terri Marsh informing Sun Jiazheng that other Chinese
Communist Party
officials who followed Jiang's group in persecuting Falun Gong have
already been
found responsible for their crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in
US courts.
Dr. Marsh said that the precedents from the Northern
California Court indicate that the judge will hold Sun Jiazheng, and
other
high-level CCP officials who took part in persecuting Falun Gong,
accountable
for the torture, illegal incarceration and other inhuman mistreatment
they caused for Falun Gong practitioners.
Later in the afternoon, as Sun Jiazheng was about to leave a
hotel, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen approached him and tried to
serve him
the legal documents, but was blocked by Sun's bodyguards. In the
evening, when several
members of Sun Jiazheng's entourage entered the elevator inside the
hotel,
several other Falun Gong practitioners again tried to deliver the legal
documents
to them but were again turned away. Because of hotel policies, the
hotel staff
is not allowed to give out guests' room numbers, so the practitioners
left the
documents with the hotel manager and asked him to deliver it to Sun
Jiazheng. The
manager agreed.
Sun Jiazheng's "Internet civilization project" intercepts emails
Sun Jiazheng, the current Chinese Minister of Culture, is
one of the main accomplices who assisted Jiang's group in carrying out
the
genocide against Falun Gong practitioners. After the CCP began
persecuting
Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Sun Jiazheng followed Jiang Zemin's orders
by
issuing a ban on Falun Gong publications and instructing that they be
destroyed
on a national scale. The Internet Civilization Project Committee headed
by Sun
Jiazheng is in charge of intercepting emails with Falun Gong-related
content.
Sun Jiazheng also spread hate propaganda and ordered intellectuals to
create works
aimed at inciting hatred against Falun Gong. This propaganda is
directly responsible
for some Chinese people's resentment of
Falun Gong, which helped the CCP to torture and murder Falun Gong
practitioners.
Condemnation and lawsuits await Sun Jiazheng
On January 28, 2004, Sun Jiazheng was served with a lawsuit
in France. French lawyer Ms. Hauser-Phelizon filed the lawsuit with the
Paris
prosecutor's office on behalf of four Falun Gong practitioners. Sun
Jiazheng,
who was in France on an official visit at the time, was charged with
"torture."
The lawsuit accused Sun of inciting hatred and advocating the
eradication of
Falun Gong through the media and cultural channels, as well as ordering
the
destruction of Falun Gong books, videos and audiocassettes, blocking
and
monitoring Falun Gong practitioners Internet communications, and
preventing the
Chinese public from accessing objective reports on Falun Gong by
Western media.
In July 2004, the French Examining Magistrate sent a
Commission Rogatoire Internationale (CRI) to relevant Chinese
government
departments to request cooperation in conducting an investigation. It
is said
to be the first investigation of a high-ranking Chinese official in the
judicial history of France and Europe.
On November 14, 2004, Sun Jiazheng attended the Asia
Cultural Cooperation Forum 2004 held in Hong Kong. Falun Gong
practitioners in
Hong Kong stood in the streets on his motorcade route and in front of
the hotel
and condemned Sun Jiazheng for inciting hatred against Falun Gong.
Many CCP officials responsible for persecuting Falun Gong
have been served with lawsuits in foreign countries
Aside from Sun Jiazheng, many other CCP officials who
persecuted Falun Gong have also been served with lawsuits in foreign
countries,
including Zhao Zhifei, the head of the Public Security for Hubei
Province; Liu
Qi, mayor of Beijing; Xia Deren, the former deputy governor for
Liaoning
Province and current mayor of Dalian City; Zhou Yongkang, former
secretary for
the Sichuan Province Party Committee and currently Minister of Public
Security;
Bo Xilai, former governor of Liaoning Province and currently Minister
of Commerce;
Li Lanqing, head of the 610 Office;
Zhao Zhizhen, head of the Wuhan TV
Station; Wang Xudong, former secretary of the Hebei Province Party
Committee
and currently Minister of Information Industry, among others. US courts
have found Zhao Zhifei, Liu
Qi and Xia Deren responsible for the torture they caused, and the other
cases are pending.
Bo Xilai was served with a civil lawsuit in Washington, DC
in April 2004 and with a criminal lawsuit in New York on September 8,
2005.
A hearing for the
lawsuit against Zhao Zhizhen was held in a federal court in Hartford,
Connecticut on September 22. Falun Gong practitioners have accused Zhao
Zhizhen
of inciting and assisting criminal acts and plotting and inciting
torture and
genocide against Falun Gong practitioners in China. The plaintiff's
lawyer Dr. Terri
Marsh pointed out that Zhao Zhizhen was responsible for programming on
both
state-run television and the Internet that called for the eradication
of Falun
Gong.
Bo Xilai and Xia Deren excluded from list of visiting
officials
Several CCP
officials have canceled overseas visits due to protests from Falun Gong
practitioners and foreign officials. Bo Xiali originally planned to
accompany
Hu Jintao on his visit to the US and Canada in September 2005, but his
name was
later stricken from the list of visiting officials after strong
protests from
Falun Gong practitioners, some Canadian people and Parliament members
who
called for human rights criminals to be denied entry to Canada. Bo
Xilai was
not seen in the Chinese delegation.
Between September 22 and September 24, 2005, a business
delegation from Dalian City visited Toronto, Canada. Dalian mayor Xia
Deren,
who planned to lead the delegation, did not show up. Based on Canada's
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program,
Xia Deren was added to the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) watch list for his crimes in the
persecution of Falun
Gong. Local media published reports after learning Xia Deren was
scheduled to
conduct a business visit to Canada. It was learned that the delegation
and
Chinese consulate felt the pressure from Falun Gong practitioners and
the
Canadian public regarding Xia Deren. In the end, Xia Deren did not make
the
trip.
Kevin Yang,
spokesperson for the Canadian branch of the World Organization to
Investigate
the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) gave the following advice to CCP
officials planning a foreign visit: "Before you make the decision,
first check
to see if your name is on the list of persecutors published by the
WOIPFG."
Sun Jiazheng brings shame to a cultural exchange program
It is believed that
Sun Jiazheng is participating in a cultural exchange program called Festival
of China being held in
Washington, DC, for which the CCP contributed large amounts of money.
Some
media have commented that "the intent of the Festival is suspicious,
because it
is hosted by an official mired in lawsuits and who actively persecutes
Falun
Dafa, a practice rooted in traditional Chinese culture."
Sun Jiazheng's
behavior departs completely from the teachings of traditional Chinese
culture. Many
local Chinese people are of the opinion that Sun Jiazheng, the Minister
of
Culture, because of his ignorance of traditional Chinese culture,
brings shame
to a Festival that supposedly promotes traditional Chinese culture.