An Open Letter from Women in China Who Practise Falun Gong

Delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on International Women’s Day

To Concerned
Individuals around the World,

We
follow the teachings of Falun Dafa [Falun Gong], (website)
which expound upon the universal characteristics of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance,
and practice gentle exercises and meditation to maintain our health. On July 20th,
1999, the former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to eliminate
Falun Dafa. We have been deprived of our basic human rights ever since, and have
been physically and mentally tortured in many ways.

Throughout
China’s labor camps and police stations, we have been subjected to torture and
humiliation. Some female practitioners have been forced to stand still for days
and nights while being denied food, the use of a restroom and sleep. Many have
been beaten and shocked with high-voltage electric batons. Others have been sent
to mental hospitals and injected with unknown substances. Many have been exposed
to extremely hot or cold weather.

There
has been sexual torture, including stripping 18 women of their clothes and forcing
them into the jail cells of male criminal offenders. Some women have been subjected
to forced abortions. Some have been force-fed urine and feces. Many so-called
ìpolicemenî in China have exhibited the most base and inexcusable behavior. One
said: “Don’t you say you practice tolerance? I will see if you can tolerate it
when I rape you!” They have ripped off our clothes in public and shocked us with
electric batons. Iron wire has been used to pierce our nipples. They have sexually
violated our bodies using eggplants, toothbrushes and plastic water bottles. (news)
In one Female Labor Camp located in Jilin Province, the police inserted hot pepper
powder into women’s vaginas in order to force them to give up their belief and
practice of Falun Dafa. They have forced electric stun batons into female practitioners’
vaginas to torture and shock them.

In
Beijing, a policeman raped a practitioner under a bridge. (news)
Ms. Zhao Jing, a 19 year-old practitioner, was beaten to death after she escaped
the persecutors by jumping from a bus that was being used to transport her against
her will. Ms. Xinyan Wei, a graduate student from Chongqing University, Sichuan
province was arrested on campus simply because policemen suspected that she was
distributing Falun Dafa fliers. (news)
She was sent to a police detention station and was raped by a policeman in front
of two prisoners. Ms. Wei has disappeared, never to be heard from again. None
of the policemen who have conducted such sadistic acts have been punished. Instead,
they are rewarded and promoted by the government! The head of the Masanjia Forced
Labor Camp, where the 18 female prisoners mentioned above were abused, was rewarded.
He was given 50,000 Chinese Yuan, which is equivalent to about six thousand dollars
in the United States. This reward came from Jiang Zemin and his followers. Masanjia’s
deputy director was rewarded with 30,000 Yuan for mistreating us.

During
the past four and half years, Jiang Zemin’s followers have built more jails and
prisons to detain Falun Dafa practitioners. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners
have been suffering tremendous pain and are forced to live away from their spouses
and families throughout China. So many of us have been expelled from our jobs,
from school and have been forced to become destitute and homeless. So many have
been beaten, arrested and sent to forced labor camps. Many have lost their lives
due to brutal torture.

Jiang
Zemin and his followers have attacked our dignity, violated our bodies and our
womanly nature because we practice Falun Dafa.

Please
help uphold justice, help stop the vicious persecution and protect the dignity
and basic human rights of women! This issue should be of concern to all women
everywhere, not just in China.

Please
help us.

Female Falun Dafa Practitioners from the People’s Republic of China on the occasion
of International Women’s Day.

Posting date: 27/Mar/2004
Original article date: 22/Mar/2004
Category: Media Report