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Chinese authorities have pepper sprayed and shackled a Canadian woman who is a Falun Gong practitioner kept behind bars since February – and whose lawyer has now abandoned her after falling victim to local pressure tactics.

Early last month, detention house guards pushed Sun Qian to the ground and pepper sprayed her, before carrying her to a metal chair where they continued to spray her with the noxious substance until the bottle was empty.

Then, they placed her in handcuffs attached to foot chains. She was chained while she ate and went to the bathroom and also when she tried to sleep – with guards coming to check every 30 minutes and insisting they must inspect her restraints every time.
It was “a kind of unbearable mental torture,” Ms. Sun said in an account given to her lawyer, which she then signed as accurate. It’s not clear how long it lasted, but Ms. Sun’s family believes it was for many days.


Once the billionaire joint owner of a biochemistry company with her husband, Ms. Sun began practicing Falun Gong in 2014. She credited it with curing her of health problems, and became a passionate convert eager to discuss her newfound faith.

Then in February, a group of men slipped into her villa in Beijing and took her away. More than a month later, she was charged with violating a Chinese law against superstitious sects, a common legal tool used in China’s long campaign against Falun Gong.

Ms. Sun’s case is one of several recent examples that have called back to the fore China’s human-rights record, at a time when Ottawa is pursuing an ambitious trade agenda with Beijing.

In detention, Ms. Sun was forced to spend two months in the same pair of socks and underwear. After being pepper sprayed, she was kept in the same clothes for 10 days.

I have been tortured so much that I really need to practice [Falun Gong] to keep my mental and physical health in good condition,” she said in the account, which The Globe and Mail has obtained.
But that lawyer is no longer working for her, after telling her family that local Justice Bureau officials pressured him and his law firm. One official asked him to become an informant on the case. Eventually, partners in his law firm told him that if he represents Ms. Sun or any other Falun Gong case, they “will cancel his contract to continue working with the firm,” said Sun Zan, Ms. Sun’s sister, in an interview.


No other lawyer has been willing to take on the case.

The Chinese justice system, meanwhile, has continued to press forward, saying it will proceed to the next step on June 28, which will include providing access to the evidence gathered and allowing Ms. Sun’s counsel an opportunity to begin mounting a defence.

“But we don’t have a lawyer right now,” Sun Zan said. It has left the family “very helpless,” she said.

At least one of Ms. Sun’s supporters faults the Canadian government for the treatment she has received. She was placed in shackles days after John McCallum, the former cabinet minister who is now ambassador to China, appeared before a parliamentary foreign affairs committee in Ottawa. Asked about Ms. Sun, he said Canada disagrees with how China treats human-rights advocates.

But he offered no public comment on her case. “That doesn’t always help, for the person in detention, if we broadcast their situation in public, so I think for those cases, almost all the time, it is better to proceed in a low-profile way,” Mr. McCallum said in early May.

Such a policy is “really dangerous,” said Anastasia Lin, a beauty queen and human-rights advocate who has angered China with her dedication to Falun Gong issues.

China could see Mr. McCallum’s comments as an assurance, Ms. Lin said.

“China just feels like they can do whatever and it won’t have reputational cost. Canada isn’t going to back this citizen up,” she said.

“They’re going to torture people anyway. But if the Canadian government doesn’t speak up, that is likely to escalate further. The only way to stop that from escalating is when we talk publicly. Closed-door diplomacy has not worked in the past few decades with China.”

Mr. McCallum, in a statement, said “consular services are being provided to the Canadian citizen who has been detained in Beijing,” but said further details could not be released for privacy reasons.

“Canada takes allegations of mistreatment or torture of Canadian citizens abroad extremely seriously,” he said. “Global Affairs Canada has put in place a mechanism designed to identify situations in which mistreatment of a Canadian may have occurred and to take steps to protect the interests and well-being of Canadians.”

Ms. Lin, however, has launched a petition calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “to do everything in his power to secure her safe release,” and speak out against China’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

She is in Geneva this week, where she raised Ms. Sun’s case before the United Nations Human Rights Council. She also discussed China’s broader campaign against Falun Gong.
“Will the United Nations turn a blind eye to such crimes against humanity?” she asked.

A Chinese representative, in response, said Falun Gong is an evil cult rather than a religion, and an organization opposed to China that Beijing has banned in the interest of protecting its own citizens.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...hackled-in-chinese-detention/article35391374/
 
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GENEVA, June 19, 2017 – China just took the floor at the UN Human Rights Council to exercise a right of reply to the testimony by UN Watch speaker Anastasia Lin (see below).

China’s Reply

  • China expresses strong indignation and resolute opposition to the unfounded claims made by some NGOs [UN Watch].
  • Falun Gong is not a religion but an evil cult and also an anti-China organization.
  • The chief of the cult keeps making evil theories and exercises control over his subjects.
  • Its activities violate the law while causing grave physical and psychological harms to their practitioners and their families.
  • The Government of China has rightfully banned Falun Gong as an organization in order to protect its citizens.
  • The Government of China has arranged help for those tricked into practicing Falun Gong.
Original UN Watch Testimony by Anastasia Lin:

Mr. President, are members of this Council respecting the Vienna Declaration, which prohibits violence based on religion or belief?

On February 19, 2017, a Canadian citizen was arrested in Beijing. Police stormed into her home without a warrant, blindfolded her, and took her to a detention center.

According to reports, they are pepper-spraying her in the face and eyes. They have her locked in a small, dark room, in an attempt to crush her will.

Her name is Sun Qian. She has not committed any crime. The sole reason for her arrest and persecution is her faith: Sun Qian is a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that teaches the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

In 1999, after tens of millions of people in China took up the practice of Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party launched an unprecedented campaign to eradicate it. Hundreds of thousands have been jailed. Falun Gong practitioners are routinely tortured, to force them to renounce their beliefs. Thousands have died.

This year, the NGO Freedom House reported credible evidence suggesting that, beginning in the early 2000s, Falun Gong detainees were “killed for their organs on a large scale.”

Mr. President, as a Chinese human rights activist, I ask:

Will the United Nations turn a blind eye to such crimes against humanity?

When will this Council investigate the systematic killing of prisoners of conscience for profit?

Finally, Chinese victims want to know: How could the U.N. have elected China to this Human Rights Council?

I thank you.

https://www.unwatch.org/evil-cult-china-slams-falun-gong-activist-u-n-rights-debate/
 
Jintao Liu’s body shuddered in pain as he endured yet another day of extreme torture.

He had woken to pins being pushed into his nails before he was forced to stand still in a yard for some 18 hours. If he moved, he was beaten viciously and within an inch of his life.
Each excruciating second of the gruelling punishment caused his legs to swell as his body threatened to buckle under the pressure. He was given “no toilet breaks” and shown no mercy. Time had become his enemy — but not his worst.

That was a typical day for Liu during a lengthy stint in a series of Beijing detention centres and labour camps between 2006 and 2009.

There, he was subjected to electric shocks, medical tests, forced feedings, beatings, violent sexual assaults and other barbaric forms of torture designed by prison guards to humiliate and inflict maximum pain.

But it was one particularly savage punishment that etched the deepest psychological scar on Liu.
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“The incident which marked me the most was when they, four of (the prison guards), stripped me of my clothes, and used the toilet brush to pierce my anus, saying that they would pierce until I turned homosexual,” Liu told news.com.au.

“They pulled my pubic hairs and played with my genitals.”

His only “crime” was to practice Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation based on the guiding principles of “truth, compassion and tolerance.”

But perhaps just as shocking is that the Chinese government has been carrying out these human rights atrocities — including forced organ removal for harvesting purposes— on innocent citizens and convicted criminals for the best part of the past two decades. And it’s still happening today.

What is happening and why?

Liu, 36, is one of thousands of people who have been incarcerated in some of China’s worst jails, labour camps and detention centres for practising Falun Gong and refusing to give up their spiritual beliefs.

By the 1990s, Falun Gong had become so popular, it was estimated to have 100 million members, outnumbering the country’s ruling Communist Party and prompting former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin to ban the practice in 1999.

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) Australia spokeswoman Dr. Sophia Bryskine said the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners was still extensive, with many being locked up “with no legal proceedings.”

“In our recent research and communications we have focused predominantly on prisoners of conscience as the scale of abuse remains vast,” she told news.com.au.

Bryskine said China was committing state-sanctioned human rights atrocities on a mass level and that Australia, along with the other nations, needed to immediately act and condemn it.

China is Australia’s largest export market for both goods and services, accounting for nearly a third of total exports, and a growing source of foreign investment.

In 2015, Australia signed a landmark free trade agreement with China, with total trade worth almost $160 billion in 2013-14.

But how much does Australia really know about its largest trading partner?

“Sadly, the global awareness of this mass murder taking place in China is still very limited,” Bryskine said.
Since the Chinese government outlawed Falun Gong, it has detained thousands — most likely hundreds of thousands — of practitioners, according to a 2008 report by the Congressional Commission on China.

“One hundred and twenty-two Chinese government websites regularly report detentions of Falun Gong ‘criminal suspects’ and some provincial and local authorities offer rewards as high as 5,000 yuan ($732 US) to informants who report Falun Gong ‘escaped criminals,’” the report read.

In 2006, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Novak, concluded that 66 percent of all prisoners in China were Falun Gong practitioners.

A 2014 report by Human Rights Watch on police torture and ill treatment of suspects revealed that while China introduced laws to curb violence toward detainees, torture was still routine in Chinese jails, with police flouting regulations and courts ignoring rules designed to exclude evidence and confessions obtained by mistreatment.

In December 2015, the United Nations Committee Against Torture gave Beijing one year to report back on progress made in implementing key areas of the UN Convention Against Torture.

“The committee remains seriously concerned over consistent reports indicating that the practice of torture and ill treatment is still deeply entrenched in the criminal justice system, which overly relies on confessions as the basis for convictions,” the committee said.

At the two-day hearing to review China’s record on torture, held for the first time since 2008, China denied it held political prisoners and said torture was banned, to derision from dissidents.

According to witness accounts, it’s those persecuted for their beliefs who are the main targets of the most brutal torture, abuse and killings in China’s correctional facilities.

Some of those who escaped persecution and resettled in Australia after being granted refugee status have shared their shocking stories with news.com.au in a bid to expose the scale and severity of the human rights abuses in China and help bring them to an end.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17990...ific-torture-taking-place-in-chinese-prisons/
 
first one is a dangerous thing in authoritarian regimes. Who in their sane minds will dare to speak the truth in such places, she indeed must be insane.
Yes indeed.

What kind of law is practiced there? Anyway, reading through gives you chills. Falun Gong is similar to yoga and who knows, some day this might happen to Yoga too. Becoming an 'evil cult':disagree:
 
No it could be related to the fact she has cured herself, did you know thier are tons of scientist killed by british and usa establishment including from what i read china, japan etc for inventing simple cures that dont cost much.
look what happened to tesla. guess what india scientist have been also killed for thier inventions.
read about gang stalking, direct energy weopens.
 
No it could be related to the fact she has cured herself, did you know thier are tons of scientist killed by british and usa establishment including from what i read china, japan etc for inventing simple cures that dont cost much.
look what happened to tesla. guess what india scientist have been also killed for thier inventions.
read about gang stalking, direct energy weopens.
Still doesn't give any excuse for attacking falun gong practitioners. China is trying hard to cover up such stories and that's why most of these go unreported. If this will be the case of one women, try to comprehend those who really live and practice it there. May be nobody is doing it. Since your life is not worth the risk.
 
Still doesn't give any excuse for attacking falun gong practitioners. China is trying hard to cover up such stories and that's why most of these go unreported. If this will be the case of one women, try to comprehend those who really live and practice it there. May be nobody is doing it. Since your life is not worth the risk.

brother wakeup evey country is killing oppressing.
 
You have a little brain to comprehend the Falung stuff but I am sure you will react if a cow is being knifed in the streets of Deli!Try to listen to other people got to say
You should understand that I don't give a flying f**k if cow is slaughtered:lol:. Since I'm a muslim.

Well, if you got anything why don't you share it. Rather than typing BS. I've heard a lot of Chinese claiming Falun Gong is evil and sh!t. But when asked what so evil about them, they starts verbal abuse. Typical China mentality.:frown:Man up!
 
You should understand that I don't give a flying f**k if cow is slaughtered:lol:. Since I'm a muslim.

Well, if you got anything why don't you share it. Rather than typing BS. I've heard a lot of Chinese claiming Falun Gong is evil and sh!t. But when asked what so evil about them, they starts verbal abuse. Typical China mentality.:frown:Man up!
Then you should think that you are being forced to eat delicious pork!If it‘s something you don’t want do you expect others would appreciate? Falun Gong did a lot of damage in China before they were thrown out of China!I don‘t give a damn to them or you!
 

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