Minghui correspondent Wang Ying reports: on June 2, 2005, a New
York Federal Court reached a default judgment in the absence of defendant Guo
Chuanjie, the deputy head of the 610 Office. This office is also called the "Leadership
Group Dealing with Falun Gong Issues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences".
The judge ordered Guo Chuanjie to compensate victims for damages as well as financial
losses inflicted on the plaintiffs.
On February 22, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners
in Manhattan, New York filed a lawsuit against Guo Chuanjie, who was leading a
group of visitors and planning activities in the USA. They charged Guo with genocide,
torture and crimes against humanity. A subpoena and Bill of Complaint were delivered
to Guo at Battery Park the next day.
Guo Chuanjie became the deputy head
of the Leadership Group Dealing with Falun Gong Issues at CAS (Chinese Academy
of Sciences) in July 1999 and is the main person in charge of persecuting Falun
Gong at the CAS. After he took the position of Party Secretary of the University
of Science and Technology of China in 2003, he emphasized the importance of persecuting
Falun Gong and "reforming" Falun Gong practitioners at the Ninth Party
Conference of the University of Science and Technology of China. Interestingly,
the location where the lawsuit was filed is directly across from the Statue of
Liberty, a monument that symbolizes freedom and democracy.
According to
some of the confirmed persecution cases, since 2000, at least 27 lecturers or
employees of the CAS were persecuted because of their persistence in practicing
Falun Gong. Methods of persecution include firing practitioners without reason,
depriving them of their basic salaries, refusing to pay pensions, taking away
government-subsidized housing, sending them to labor camps, sentencing practitioners
to jail, refusing to register them [for study], suspending or expelling them,
and generally discriminating against the teachers who were unwilling to give up
their beliefs. The CCP forced scholars to leave the university or stopped them
from studying at the university for long periods of time by taking them to a local
brainwashing center or a detention center. Falun Gong practitioners have also
been put on a list of people forbidden to leave China.
Since Zhao Zhifei,
the deputy head of the Public Security Department in Hubei Province was convicted
for his involvement in persecuting Falun Gong in December 2001, 13 lawsuits have
been filed against Jiang Zemin in 28 countries. Thirty-four lawsuits against 22
high-ranking CCP officials who carried out the persecution are in progress, and
some of these individuals have been convicted. These perpetrators cannot escape
justice abroad. We believe they will also be brought to justice in China in the
near future
Chinese
Science Leader’s Hidden Agenda: Brainwashing, Genocide, Torture
Communist Party Vice Secretary for Academy
of Sciences Receives Default Judgment in New York Court
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NEW
YORK (FDI) – Under the shadow of New York’s Statue of Liberty, a man ostensibly
well-received by leaders in the American scientific community received a document
he likely never expected. It was a summons and complaint, suing him in the United
States federal court in New York for genocide, torture, and crimes against humanity,
and exposing his role in a massive, secret persecution campaign carried out behind
closed doors in his homeland, China.
Mr. Guo Chuanjie, the
Vice Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee within the Chinese Academy
of Sciences, was visiting the US earlier this year with a team of staff from the
Academy to meet with alumni from the Academy who are working in the US. His counterparts
in the US, however, were likely unaware of Mr. Guo’s other title: the Deputy Chief
in charge of the “Falun Gong Control Office” operating within the same Academy.
Academics
a Front for Chinese Gestapo
The “Falun Gong Control Office”,
which oversees the notorious “610 Office,” (link)
is a secret, extra-judicial organization with powers above and beyond any legal
or law enforcement agencies mechanism in China, charged with a single mission:
exterminate Falun Gong both in China and abroad. For years, the 610 Office, also
known as the “Chinese Gestapo,” has operated behind the scenes, commanding untold
resources and engaging all levels of the Chinese Communist Party’s apparatus,
to attack and eliminate Falun Gong and those who believe in or support it through
any means.
These means often include illegal midnight raids
of people’s homes, revocation of finances and property, nullification of employment
and even marriages. In many cases victims are then subjected to illegal detainment
without legal representation, forced labor, torture, and in thousands of cases,
death. By using the same means that the Chinese Communist Party used in rising
to power, the 610 Office instills fear, offers bribes, and ultimately extracts
obedience.
Part of what has allowed the 610 Office to carry
out its illicit and often horrifying mission is exactly what Mr. Guo brings to
the table: leadership and influence at many levels of the Chinese society. For
instance, at a Chinese Communist Party Committee expansion meeting for the Academy,
Mr. Guo emphasized the importance of “reforming” Falun Gong practitioners. This
“reform” is a euphemism for brutal, often prolonged brainwashing which ends in
either the victim abandoning their faith, or dying from torture.
Though
he was served with the legal papers on February 23, 2005, Mr. Guo never responded
in any way to the lawsuit. Earlier this week, Judge Kaplan of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York handed down a default judgment
against Mr. Guo. The claims include genocide, torture, violation of the right
to life, right to liberty, and other crimes against humanity.
Colleagues
Duped
What many scholars, scientists, educators, and
businesspeople in the west do not realize is just how pervasive the 610 Office
and the Chinese Communist Party’s operations are. Mr. Guo is not the exception
– in fact, the CCP has repeatedly called on all levels of the Chinese government
and its subjects to vigorously join in the illicit and bloody campaign against
Falun Gong.
Accomplices range from the top levels of the Chinese
Communist Party’s Politburo down through the regional governmental arms and to
the community level. Police in each city are given quotas for arrests and “conversions”
of Falun Gong practitioners. Teachers in colleges and elementary schools are given
anti-Falun Gong materials to teach, along with instructions to report any students
not willing to learn it. Students are prompted to repeat the party’s propaganda
on standardized tests, where answering in favor of Falun Gong means giving up
any chance of advancing to the next grade.
This is the context
in which Mr. Guo, ostensibly a representative of science and lofty academia, arrived
in New York. Fortunately in this case, he has been served a taste of justice.
Certainly Mr. Guo must be held accountable for his crimes. But also, at a time
when China is poised to join the world at the forefront of scientific research,
Mr. Guo must answer to his counterparts in the scientific community, and answer
for the atrocities he has committed against practitioners of Falun Gong.
Plaintiffs
Subjected to Brainwashing and Torture
One of the plaintiffs,
Ms. Liu Jinghang, was a research scientist at the Academy that Mr. Guo supervised,
and had won awards for her scientific work. Because Ms. Liu would not sign papers
renouncing her belief in Falun Gong, she was arrested and detained 6 times. Her
home was ransacked 3 times. In February of 2000, Ms. Liu was arbitrarily arrested,
detained, and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
While in prison,
Ms. Liu suffered cruel tortures, such as the “Sleeping on a Deadman’s Bed,” in
which her four limbs were stretched out and tied to the four corners of an ice-cold
metal bed. She was not allowed to get up to eat, drink or go to the bathroom.
Liu was also subjected to brainwashing techniques, which included being forced
to watch videos containing fabricated reports vilifying Falun Gong.
Ms.
Liu’s husband, Mr. Li Baoqing, is another plaintiff in the suit. He was a Supervisor
of Doctoral students and also a research scientist at the same Academy. He was
a recipient of the “National Special Contribution Award” presented by the State
Council, and also received an award as an outstanding employee at the Academy.
Only for practicing Falun Gong, Mr. Li was detained 4 times. On February 1, 2001,
several heavyset men kidnapped Mr. Li by covering his head with a sack. Mr. Li
was taken to “Xin’an Re-education Camp” and forced to undergo brainwashing classes.
He was forced to watch videos and materials that were filled with false, anti-Falun
Gong propaganda, and was tortured physically and mentally. The couple later escaped
and now reside in Australia.
Two other plaintiffs currently
remain anonymous because of the existing threat of life and wellbeing from the
Chinese Communist Party to their family members and friends who are in China.
FOR
FUTHER information on lawsuits filed on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners around
the world, please visit http://www.faluninfo.net/fdifocus.asp?FocusType=Lawsuits
Posting
date: 8/Jun/2005
Original article date: 6/Jun/2005
Category: World News
