Global Efforts Bring About the Release of Young Chinese Girl on Hunger Strike

After many kind-hearted people from all over the world made phone calls to ask for the release of the young practitioner on hunger strike, the local officials realized that their evil conduct had been exposed. ... On the morning of November 13, 2001, the police began procedures to release her, and she was soon let go.

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Today’s Articles — November 17, 2001

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Teenager Brutally Tortured at Liaoyuan Labor Camp, Jilin Province

Nov 11, 2001

(Clearwisdom.net) At midday on 15^th September, Meng Yangqi, a 17-year-old Dafa practitioner and junior high school student escaped from Liaoyuan Labour Camp in protest of his illegal detention. Unfortunately, he was captured and sent back. Upon his return, the vicious guard, Wang Chengxue, ferociously hit Meng on the face, causing serious bleeding from his nose and lips. Meng was then locked in the isolation cell of the Jijiao team ("education" class). Not long after, Wang hauled Meng out of the cell to beat him again. Meng was beaten until he fell down on the ground with his face covered in blood. Jiang Deyuan (Head of Administration), who had been watching on the side during the torture, started to apply "Shang Sheng [roping]" on Meng. (translator's note: a form of torture -- the practitioner is tied up with a thin rope; the rope is circled around the neck, and the hands are tied behind the back. Then the rope is tightened steadily around the body, making it more and more difficult to breathe. The pain is so intense that the victim sometimes loses control of the bladder. There are instances when the rope has been tightened so much as to break the victim's arms) Meng endured the pain of "Shang Sheng" as well as verbal abuse for half an hour. After the roping, Kong Qingguo (Head of "Education") found a meter long wooden club about two inches in diameter, and beat Meng fiercely on his chest, side, back, hips, and arms, causing redness, purple bruises, swelling, and unbearable pain. Meanwhile, they never stopped their verbal attacks for the whole 2 hours.

Farmer from Northeast China Dies after 300-Day Torture Ordeal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11/16/2001 [ http://www.faluninfo.net/ ]

NEW YORK, November 16, 2001 (Falun Dafa Information Center) - Ju Yajun, a 33-year-old farmer from Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, died after a 300-day ordeal involving prolonged torture, forced feedings, and extreme conditions in a Chinese detention center, sources inside China report. This, all because he refused to renounce his freedom of belief in Falun Gong.

France: Minister of Education Invites Practitioners to Banquet

On November 13 and 14 the French Academie Universelle des Cultures organized an International Forum on a United World and Human Rights. On the evening of November 13, Minister of Education Jack Lang held a grand banquet for the conference attendees. Some practitioners of the Falun Dafa Association of France and the European Falun Dafa Association also attended the banquet at the invitation of Mr. Lang.