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A year ago today, I wrote about Wen,
my friend in China who has been detained by the Chinese communist government
for practicing
Falun Dafa.
Today is another birthday of hers, and yet, my birthday wish is still kept undelivered...
Wen was detained in May 2008 before the Beijing Olympics and she was sentenced
- without a trial - to two years of "re-education
through labour" (forced labor camp). While in custody, in the summer
of 2008 her health condition began to deteriorate, to the point where
she was almost blind and could barely walk. No proper medical
treatment was given. In April 2009,
some local officials went to inspect the camp and they asked her about
Falun Gong and expected her to give an answer following the brainwashing
materials which police were forcing her and other detained Falun Gong practitioners
to "study". But Wen answered: "Falun Dafa is good."
After this incident, her family members were denied the rights to
visit her. Wen was tortured by being forced to sit still on a hard stool 20 hours
per day and she was not given enough food. Her weight rapidly dropped
more than 15kg. This is the latest piece of news I know about my friend Wen (published
on minghui.org in July 2009)......
Amnesty International put out an Urgent Action for Wen in March 2009.
According to the statistics published in March 2009, during the period of the Beijing Olympics,
the Chinese communist government arrested at least 10,194 Falun Gong practitioners.
Nearly 100 of them are confirmed to have died within several weeks or
even several days of their arrest, as a direct result of torture and other
ill-treatment in custody. Last year in an United Nations report by Special Rapporteur Mr. Philip Alston,
he included various large scale human rights abuses in China that he investigated during 2008 and 2009. Of the 20
persecution cases he included, 16 were death cases resulting from the
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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