Falun Gong, complains of persecution; Jia Qingling charged for his role in the
persecution of Falun Gong
VIENNA – Yong Wang has lived under
permanent residency status in Austria for more than ten years. He attained a degree
in Business Administration in Vienna and is employed as a software developer.
He married a native Austrian last year, with whom he has a child. Unfortunately,
the thirty-two-year-old Austrian of Chinese descent has serious problems: At the
beginning of July, he applied for a passport extension at the Chinese Consulate
in Vienna, but was refused. He was informed verbally that this decision was made
because he is a Falun Gong practitioner, but a written refusal was not granted.
In
the interim, the Wangs, who reside in Neustadt, a suburb of Vienna, asked for
help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Justice. The Society
for Threatened Peoples International also sent an appeal letter to the Embassy,
but as of now to no avail. Nothing was accomplished by the media either. As the
passport expiration date is September 10th, the Austrian authorities are in the
process of expediting citizenship proceedings.
On Monday, a rare complaint
was launched, based on the UN Torture Convention, by the Vienna District Attorney’s
Office. The legal representatives of the "International Society for Human
Rights" and "The Society for Threatened Peoples International"
charge in this complaint the visiting Communist Party official, Jia Qingling,
for being one of the most infamous architects of the persecution and fight against
Falun Gong. Jia Qinglin is the former Secretary of the Beijing Party Committee,
as well as a member of the prominent Politburo of the Communist Party Central
Committee.
Posting date: 6/Sep/2004
Original article date: 5/Sep/2004
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