BBC: Falun Gong sues China minister

Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 January, 2004, 12:08 GMT

Four members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit in Paris against visiting Chinese Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng.

The members said Mr Sun was responsible for "crimes of torture" against the group, which is banned in China.

Details on the Persecution and Death of Hefei City Falun Dafa Practitioner Li Jun

(Clearwisdom.net Jan.8, 2004) Li Jun, male, 33 years old, lived at 58 Yingshang Road, Hefei City, Anhui province. He worked at Hefei Bayi Gears Factory, and later at another Hefei factory. He was illegally detained for fifteen days in 2000 for practicing the Falun Gong exercises outside with other practitioners on Jan. 1. Because he refused to sign a "Guarantee Statement" renouncing his belief, his factory dismissed him. In 2001, he was caught making copies of truth clarification materials, arrested by Shuanggan Police Office and held again for fifteen days. In 2002, he was sent to a labor camp for distributing truth-clarifying VCD's, but as he was protesting with a hunger strike, the labor camp refused to accept him.

The Ruthless Torture of Dafa Practitioners In the Dalian Labor Camp, Liaoning Province

(Clearwisdom.net) At the Dalian Labor Camp in Liaoning Province, Falun Gong practitioners are brutally tortured. However, because information from inside is tightly blocked, outsiders barely know anything about the true situation.

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