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On April 10, 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yuzhi went to appeal
in front of Chinese Embassy in Ottawa, Canada and called on all circles
of Canadian society to help rescue her family members being illegally
detained by officials of the Chinese regime. Ms. Wang told reporters that
Jiang’s regime arrested her family members because she narrated her
experience of brutal persecution in China, and her participation in international
lawsuits holding Jiang responsible for his crimes. Her family members
are not Falun Gong practitioners. Jiang’s regime carries out a policy
of “guilt by implication” to retaliate and persecute her family members.
Ms. Wang’s brother Wang Chongyuan, elder sister Wang Chunyu and younger
sister Wang Yuxiang have all been arrested and are currently in detention.
In addition, her elder brother was put under surveillance and has lost
his freedom.
Jiang’s regime brutally tortured Ms. Wang for her persistence in
her belief before she came to Canada. She was imprisoned three times.
During detention, she protested by hunger strike. She was rescued to Canada
with the help of Canadian government.
Ms. Wang said, “Actually, the Jiang regime’s persecution of my
family started as soon as I was rescued by Canadian government. Police
followed and monitored my family and detained three of them in Harbin,
Heilongjiang province.”
Ms. Wang’s younger brother, Mr. Wang Chongyuan, not a Falun Gong
practitioner, went missing the afternoon on January 17, 2003. On the afternoon
of January 18, police from Heilongjiang Province Public Safety Bureau
asked Mr. Wang’s wife to sign on a document acknowledging fabricated
crimes against her husband. She refused and asked the police, “What crime
did my husband commit that makes you detain him?” The police replied,
“He is a political prisoner. It does not matter whether you sign or not.”
On March 14, 2003, Ms. Wang went to Switzerland to expose Jiang regime’s
trampling of the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners for the last
four years. On March 25, 2003, Ms. Wang heard that her sisters Yuxiang
and Chunyu were kidnapped illegally by police and detained in a prison
in Harbin.
Ms. Wang said, “When my younger sister was taken away, the police ransacked
her house. Her two sons, aged 2 and 15, were at home and cried to ask
the police to release their mother. Now, my sister’s two-year-old
son is being taken care of by a neighbor in Guangzhou. The 15-year-old
son went back to Harbin to look for his mother. The boy is unable to go
to school. My elder sister was arrested in Manzhouli, Jilin Province and
escorted to Harbin. When she stepped off a train in Harbin Train Station
with her hands cuffed, she told her relatives awaiting her arrival, ‘I
haven’t committed any wrongdoing. They arrested me just because my
sister is a Falun Gong practitioner in Canada.’ She hoped that her
family members would appeal for her. She was then abruptly taken away
away.”
Ms. Wang’s elder brother left to visit his mother in Middle East
to avoid persecution after hearing that his brother was illegally detained.
He was intercepted in Urumchi Airport and his passport was taken away.
He was told to return to Harbin to wait for interrogation. Now he is illegally
being monitored and has no freedom.
Ms. Wang said that Jiang’s regime not only infringed her freedom
of belief but also violates the basic human rights of her family members
by the implication policy. She said, “They dare to detain my family members
when I attended the UN Human Rights Commission conference, showing how
mean and heartless they are. Many international media and human rights
specialists couldn’t believe their ears after hearing about the persecution
of my family members. They said they never saw any country trampling human
rights like China.” She also mentioned that she was followed and watched
by Chinese agents during her trip to Switzerland.
Ms. Wang called on international society to pay attention to the severe
human rights violations occurring in China and to help in rescuing Falun
Gong practitioners and their family members facing persecution in China.
Posting date: 16/Apr/2003
Original article date: 15/Apr/2003
Category: News from China
