A team of supporters flocked to Sherman Monday to voice concern and raise
awareness for rescuing Charles Li, an American citizen being detained in China.
The team is criss-crossing the United States, with banners, photos and
information in tow, to help bring Li back, as well as spreading the word of
torture and human rights violations in China.
"Charles went to China in January with the intention to interrupt TV
signals to broadcast the truth of Falun Gong (a form of meditation), but he was
detained 15 minutes after he arrived (in China)," said Jason Wang, a chief
supporter of Li's release. "After show trial, he was sentenced to three
years imprisonment. He has been tortured."
Through the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, China, Wang said they've learned that in
the past two months Charles has been on a hunger strike three times to protest
the prison police beating and torture he's endured. Wang said Li's parents were
brought in to "implore him to give up his belief in truth, compassion and
tolerance, the tenets of Falun Gong." Of which he didn't, and followed with
a 96-page letter of appeal to the U.S. government for his rescue.
Wang said the Chinese government has persecuted the Falun Gong movement for more
than four years, and in that time, "we have received almost daily accounts
of practitioners in China being tormented, abused and tortured, even tortured to
death. Charles put down his fear of death, left his comfortable life in America
and his fiancee, and went to China to expose the persecution."
Wang said Li's actions remind many Chinese natives in America of human rights
heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
"They fought for human rights, equality and freedom under the spotlight of
the media and under the protection of public attention," Wang said.
For information, contact Wang at (713) 539-5609, or go to
www.rescuecharles.org.
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