(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Cao Dong and Mr. Niu Jinping from Beijing risked arrest and torture on May 21, 2006, when they met with The Honorable Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Union. The two men exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong through their personal experiences, and the experiences of their wives who are held at forced labor camps. They also informed Mr. McMillan-Scott of the CCP's suspected massive harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners' organs and sale of these organs for huge profit.
For the past seven years, the guilt-laden CCP has gone to great lengths to prevent the truth regarding the persecution of Falun Gong from getting out. All the while, Falun Gong practitioners have been working hard to break through the blockade, and have been successful. They finally broke inside the prohibition zone in Beijing by speaking with Mr. McMillan-Scott for about one hour. Later, Mr. McMillan-Scott revealed his findings to the world. Since then, increasingly widespread attention has been paid to the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
So, what has the CCP done since this brief meeting?
1. Like Gang Members, National Security Agents Arrest and Interrogate Falun Gong Practitioners and Ransack Their Homes
The Chinese National Security Bureau, abbreviated NSB, is a CCP-controlled and funded spy agency. It claims to "uphold national security" while in fact it spends taxpayers' hard-earned money and engages in actions that severely damage taxpayers' freedom and personal safety. The NSB agents have committed countless crimes against Falun Gong. Due to long-term brainwashing and the nature of spy work, many agents are notoriously deceitful and unscrupulous. Even people who work within legal, judicial and justice systems loathe NSB agents. According to insiders, the number of professional NSB agents increases each year and now exceeds the number of police officers. The Communist regime is so corrupt that it is forced to rely on secret agents and despicable methods to maintain its rule.
The CCP fanatically retaliated against the two Falun Gong practitioners after they met with Mr. McMillan-Scott. Practitioner Mr. Cao Dong was taken away by NSB agents in Beijing on May 21 and he has since been illegally interrogated and detained. NSB agents ransacked his home at Room 704, Unit 3, Zhubaozi Alley, Zhaojialou in Beijing for more than two hours on May 26. Another practitioner, named Mr. Niu Jinping, who took his young daughter to the meeting, is under close monitoring and receives constant threats and harassment.
NSB agents also held U.S. citizen Steven Gigliotti, who arranged the meeting. He was intercepted on his way back to his hotel soon after the meeting. He was interrogated for 24 hours, from 6:00 p.m. on May 21 until 6:00 p.m. on May 22. He was then blindfolded, taken to an airport and deported.
Mr. Dong's friend Gao Feng had nothing to do with the meeting. He was temporarily staying at Mr. Dong's home when NSB agents ransacked the home. They arrested him and interrogated him for five days. They handcuffed him on a train and took him back to his home province, Gansu. Mr. Feng is currently living in exile to avoid further persecution.
The NSB dispatched five men and one woman to ransack Mr. Dong's home. They opened the door with a master key and took Falun Dafa books, other informational materials, copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, USB flash drives, MP3 player(s), CDs, pictures, film, receipts, Mr. Dong's ID, and even his wedding photos and marriage certificate.
These agents tried very hard to conceal their identities during the arrest, interrogation and ransacking. They wore civilian clothes, not uniforms with police numbers, and did not address each other by name or title when others were present. They shied away when someone asked their last name and quickly changed the subject.
These agents walked in front of and behind Mr. Gao Feng when they took him out of Mr. Dong's home. They told him not to make any noise because they feared people would know about their illicit act. They forced Mr. Feng to turn around in front of the apartment building with his back toward the street. When the NSB car arrived, they held his head down and pushed him into the car so he could not see the car's make or the license plate.
They dealt with Mr. Gigliotti in a similar manner. The agents drove an unlicensed car and stopped it right in front of Mr. Gigliotti's taxi. They went up to his car, yanked him out, wrapped his head in a towel, and threw him in their car. They took his notebook computer and several pictures he had taken during the meeting, and looked through his computer and mobile phone.
Mr. Dong's family anxiously searched for him and went to the Beijing City National Security Bureau. On one occasion two men and one woman from the bureau went to Mr. Dong's home. His parents-in-law spent sleepless nights worrying about him, and his father-in-law, in particular, experienced severe tinnitus. The three National Security Bureau agents ignored the family's suffering and said they were from the Bureau for Letters and Calls and "didn't know anything" when the family asked about Mr. Cao Dong. Afterwards, they didn't answer within a specified period of time, according to policies for the Bureau for Letters and Calls, and disappeared instead. They never answered the family's phone calls or messages, which implies they were not at all workers from the Bureau for Letters and Calls. In fact, some of them were present during the ransacking of Mr. Dong's home on May 26.
The agents videotaped and made written records of their conversation with Mr. Dong's family members. They began with aggressive questions such as "What do you think of Falun Gong?" "Who have you contacted since Cao Dong's disappearance?" "Who told you to ask us about Cao Dong?" Their true goal was to verify information in order to further persecute the family. They clearly knew that they were committing crimes and they were truly afraid of the exposure of the persecution of Mr. Dong. They feared people's knowledge of the details of the work units and of the agents who participated in this persecution incident. They tried to persecute Mr. Dong's family and even those who helped him. When they were told that the local police and Party officials had revealed the arrest, they reluctantly admitted, "We [the NSB] arrested him."
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) is currently conducting a thorough investigation of the Beijing City National Security Bureau, bureau chief Wang Chongxun and other suspects involved in these arrests.
2. Secretive Interrogation and Detention - Fear of Exposure
The agents closed the curtains during Mr. Gao Feng's interrogation for fear of exposure. Two of the agents walked in front of and behind Mr. Feng on their way to the interrogation location. They made him bow his head by pushing his head down. They took his eyeglasses, didn't let him look to the left or right, and forced him to close his eyes. Four agents took him out in a car and force-fed him, and didn't let him open his eyes on his way back. They covered his face with a big hat and told him to "behave" himself, or they would handcuff him. They wrapped Mr. Steven Gigliotti's head in a towel to-and-from the location where the interrogation was conducted.
The NSB has arrested many practitioners during the past seven years, including former members of the Falun Dafa Research Association. Any hotel room in Beijing can be converted into a secret interrogation room and torture chamber where the agents shut the curtains and turn on the lights. They arrest the practitioners in a car in broad daylight, usually forcing the victim to lower his head, close his eyes and not look to the side.
The agents' conversation revealed that Mr. Dong was held near Mr. Feng. It is easy to assume that Gao Feng and Cao Dong were held outside Sihuan, as there are high walls, electric wires, sentries, police dogs, drills, and a nearby military airport where planes come and go at different times. The Beijing NSB Detention Center is located at No. 47 South Dahongmen Road in Nanwan area, Beijing.
3. Illegal Interrogation with Cruel Methods
The agents cuffed Mr. Gao Feng to a chair during the interrogation. Eight men and one woman took part in the interrogation, and five of them took turns probing him day and night. They didn't let him sleep from 11:00 p.m. on May 26 until the morning of May 28. They made him stand up whenever he dozed off. They beat and threatened him and used vulgar words to attack him. They also force-fed him, making him sweat profusely and nearly lose consciousness. They used his money to buy the force-feeding ingredients. Local police accompanied Mr. Feng back to his home province. They handcuffed him while on the train. The local police officers constantly insulted, threatened and scolded him. They tortured him with the tiger bench, withheld his ID, confiscated MP3 player(s), a radio and other items. They also extorted 3,000 yuan from him. The police not only didn't issue any receipts for the things they took, they also threatened that if Mr. Gao Feng did anything else, they would move his residence permit back to Gansu Province, send him to their "headquarters" for six months and extort an additional 12,000 yuan from him.
Mr. Feng was subjected to abusive treatment, even though he had nothing to do with this meeting. Judging from this, it is not difficult to imagine the even more severe plight of Mr. Cao Dong, who had personally met with Mr. McMillan-Scott.
Mr. Gigliotti had sent a text message to his friends in the USA on his cell phone during his interrogation, communicating that he had been arrested. The agents were furious when they found out. They forced him to send another false message saying, "I am safe," before turning off and taking his cell phone from him. His friends immediately notified the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, but when the U.S. Embassy representative called the Communist regime, he was told that the Chinese officials didn't know anything about Mr. Gigliotti.
The CCP pretends to be friendly with other countries, but in fact it lacks the most basic respect and trust toward any foreigners. The CCP will monitor anyone through NSB agents. They install phone-tapping equipment at hotels and send agents posing as hotel service personnel, therefore acquiring the personal information of many foreigners. They will arrest whoever is perceived to be a threat and subsequently deny the arrest with lies when questioned. This happens frequently in China.
The basic principle of law is this, "If the law does not forbid it, then it is not illegal." The CCP has never followed any laws while persecuting Falun Gong, and yet the NSB agents charged Mr. Gigliotti with "organizing a meeting," "carrying materials and audiotapes of the meeting," and "carrying Falun Gong information," which according to them are "the most serious crimes in China."
While facing the legal regulations, the NSB agents could blatantly violate them. They arrested Mr. Gigliotti in a car without legally bearing a license plate. They interrogated and tortured Mr. Feng and they detained Mr. Dong for more than four months, never telling his family about the time or location of his detention. When the family asked about him, the agents said, "We can't tell you." They also denied the family's request to meet with Mr. Dong and deliver money to him. The head officials forbade Mr. Dong's family from revealing that they had come to his home, and they forbade regular contact between his parents and other relatives. They deprived his family of the most basic rights that are protected by the Chinese Constitution.
The worst thing is that they kept violating the law while they forced Mr. Gigliotti to sign three documents. The documents state, "It's legal for them to confiscate my things," "Because I violated the laws of China, their interrogation of me is legitimate," and "I admit that I violated the laws of China." Furthermore, they read Mr. Gao Feng their decisions regarding him and forced him to stand up and listen, claiming, "It is to uphold the dignity of the law," while they were the ones who recklessly trampled the law.
4. Ignoring Urgent Calls for Release by Falun Gong Practitioners and Others - Stepping Up Brainwashing and "Reform"
After they learned about the plight of the two Falun Gong practitioners, many practitioners inside and outside China, as well as other people around the world called for their rescue. Mr. McMillan-Scott, VP of the European Union, immediately requested a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador at the EU. Mr. McMillan-Scott spoke numerous times with representatives of the Chinese regime and pressed for the release of the two Falun Gong practitioners who had met with him. He also called for the attention of the international community on this issue.
Nevertheless, evidence shows the Communist regime is hastening its brutal brainwashing attempts on Mr. Cao Dong. They are forcing him to betray his beliefs in order to cover up their crimes. The agents threatened that if Mr. Dong continues refusing to cooperate with them, he will "face further imprisonment."
The CCP's large-scale persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has lasted seven years. The CCP agents repeatedly attempt to brainwash practitioners who are truly determined when the illegal interrogation cannot go on. They try to destroy the practitioners' will, dignity and conscience.
The gods and mankind alike look down on betrayal, and yet the CCP sees betrayal of spiritual belief as a standard of "good behavior" and the goal of brainwashing, and resorts to all kinds of cruel methods to brainwash people.
Anyone who knows the truth of the Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong will probably draw the same conclusion as Mr. McMillan Scott, that "The Chinese regime remains brutal, arbitrary and paranoid."
For the past seven years, the CCP has arrested and tortured Falun Gong practitioners who bring the truth to light. Many practitioners have been killed for speaking the truth.
We can unequivocally say that the CCP is brutalizing Mr. Cao Dong, physically and psychologically, with evil methods accumulated from the CCP's history. Mr. Dong's life is in danger.
But no matter how rampantly the CCP behaves, the ones who are truly in a hopeless situation are those who are dead-set on following the CCP. In the future historic judgment, all people will have to take responsibility for their actions, and today's kind or wicked acts will determine their future positions for eternity.
