The two chairmen of the US Congress rights group, Democratic Party Congressman McGovern and Republican Congressman Wolf said there were incidents, which abused the process and rule of law. Wolf criticized the Chinese government for using the ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘Olympic security’ as a cover for the persecution of Uighurs. McGovern accused the Chinese Communists of conducting the trial in absolute secrecy. They urged the Chinese government to comply with the promises in their Olympic bid, where they committed to improving the human rights situation.

The subway company said that rainwater inundated the underground ticket hall, and the ceilings of the hall’s high-voltage substation had been leaking. The situation was critical and the only way out was to cut off the power. Staff stacked sandbags at the entrance and pumps were pumping out water up to half a foot in depth.

No problems occurred at the Metro Line two of the station, but the entrances and exits at the brand new Metro Line five, could not sustain a test of heavy rainfall that fully exposed the weaknesses in Beijing’s most advanced transport infrastructure.

One month away from the opening of the Olympic Game, officials are concerned if Beijing’s public transport will be paralyzed during the Olympics, if torrential rain strikes.

According to Hua Hui-Qi, around 8:30 pm police knocked on the door while Hua Hui-Qi did not open the door for them. The police failed to find the lock company. (Recording) ” Police in uniform and plainclothes came with an 18 pound sledgehammer to smash the security door open, and bashed me violently. Then I was dragged outside.”

Hua Hui-Qi stated that the police entered the building, and swang the big hammer onto Hua Hui-Qi while his wife was beaten unconscious in her attempt to prevent the assault. Together with Hua’s 90 year-old father, Hua and his wife were dragged outside of their home. Last night, seven or eight police officers lodged in Hua Hui-Qi’s home and hua’s family had to spend a night on the street of Xiyuan Community, Dongshi of Chongwen District. (Recording): “There are now seven or eight police living inside, and they threw me out of my own home and no matter what they won’t let me in.”

Hua Hui-Qi told the reporter, “Police demanded Hua to sign security agreements that no gathering is allowed during the Olympics, and asked for the list of church members and activities. (Recording): “(I) did not sign, because we will not sign that (agreement) with him. The Olympics is approaching, they (authority) go to the places where religious activities are fairly active for signing the security agreement, banning gatherings during this period of time. Police demand name lists, that is, to request the church members and other participants of the community to report to them. He Said that they detained his mother as a hostage because he failed to cooperate with them. ”

In recent years, Hua Hui Qi and his family have been repeatedly beaten, arrested and harassed by the Chinese Communist police.

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According to sources in Mainland China, in June 2008, in Gaobeidian City of Baoding, Hebei Province, over 20 Falun Gong practitioners have been kidnapped. At present, there are still a dozen Falun Gong practitioners still being illegally held in detention centres. On June 26 and 27, 20 Falun Gong practitioners were kidnapped in Ding’xin County of Baoding City, Hebei Province. In addition, on 28th and 29th June, over 30 Falun Gong practitioners were kidnapped in Xin’bin County of Fushun City in Liaoning Province. According to sources, arrests of these Falun Gong practitioners are mostly pre-arranged in accordance with the blacklist made by the local police station and the “610 Office” and some were even directly kidnapped from their work place.

It is known that in order to control the negative media reports, during the Olympics, the mainland authorities have specially arranged a spokesperson from each work unit, while others are forbidden from any contact with foreign journalists, or accepting interviews with foreign reporters.

As reflected by Mainland commoners, despite that official media has not mentioned a word about security for the Olympic Games, but in accordance with the Communists’ convention, the country is now likely in a state of alert. To the Chinese communists, the “face project” and the personal interests of the Communist Party officials well surpass the importance of human rights of Chinese people, and the lives in the earthquake-stricken areas of China.

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The two Members said that the action proves what a number of human rights groups have described as the deteriorated human rights situation before the Olympic Game next month is true, although the officials proclaimed that the Olympic Games would improve China’s human rights record. “The reality is very disappointing.” Smith stressed that the situation for Chinese dissidents, rights activists and those who call for religious freedom is very grim. He called on President George W. Bush to refuse to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics, unless some conditions can be improved.

Wolf and Smith said they have sumbitted a namelist of 734 people who are incarcerated due to political reasons, to the President of China’s Diplomacy Association and the former Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, urging Li Zhaoxing to make efforts in releasing these people. Mainland lawyer Li Guang-Bai who was supposed to participate in the meeting was detained for three days somewhere in the outskirts of Beijing, Lawyer Jiang Tian-Yong was put under house arrest until the end of dinner; Teachers at The Politics and Law University and Lawyer Teng Biao were also locked up at home by the authorities.

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Zou said officials who were investigating Yue Tianxiang warned him not to participate in tea gatherings of the CDP. Zou said it was obvious that the regime intends to further control the thought of its people. Zou believes that a stable society ahead of the Olympic Games cannot be achieved through high pressured oppressive methods against those with a different view.

Wang Rongqing had been arrested on several occasions for voicing his aid for attorney Gao Zhishen and other rights activists like Guo Fexiong and Chen Shuqing. Officials interviewed Wang after organising fundraising events for the Sichuan earthquake in May.

The news of the removal of this moseque was reported on the Keping government website, it said that the mosque was illegally built on a grazing location in the Kumuli village and conducted illegal religious activities for 10 years. Based on ethnic and religious affairs regulations, the petition regulation, law and order, and religious management of the Keping County, they have proceeded with the qualitative punishment of the Kumuli village personnel, and say that the mosque will be demolishing before 26th of May.

According to local government news, the demolision and removal of the mosque belong to the first phase of corrective punishments focused in Yuer rural areas, and currently the second phase of work is proceeding, including the requirement of the working team in the village to hold a forum or general assembly as a way of education township. The village cadres and the party members are to develop the party’s ethnic and religious policies in batches and stages. They must clearly publish the education and the education rate must be achieved 100%. This is to ensure that the third phase of the work develops according to plan.

A local grass-roots unit cadre acceptting an enquiry on Monday, first denied the incident about the demolition of the mosque, then admitted later, when a reporter asked about the reason for the demolition. The cadre said that religious affairs are very sensitive, it is inappropriate to disclose the details so we can only address to the public that it was illegal.

According to the overseas World Uyghur Congress: More than 10 Uighur people in Aksu County boycotted the official Olympic Games publicity, and were arrested and tortured. A responsible person of a primary school in Keping County said on Monday that the Department of Education had arranged tasks to schools to produce and distribute the Olympic-related pictures.

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The motion, moved by Greens Senator Ms Kerry Nettle, was passed unanimously in the Senate on Tuesday. The vote represents the first time that the Senate has publicly supported an end to the persecution by the Chinese communist regime.

Falun Gong spokesperson Kay Rubacek says that this is the first statement by the Australian Government in support of an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. She thinks Australia has made a historic step, aligning the government’s position with that of many other Western democracies around the world. Mrs. Rubacek also said that this is not only a statement in itself, but this will immediately impact positively on the people of China. She says that International condemnation of the persecution is the most effective way to stop the torture and killing.

Reports from human right monitoring groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, detail evidence of a campaign of systematic imprisonment and torture of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese communist regime since July 1999.

Amnesty International’s 2008 Annual Report says Falun Gong practitioners were specially targeted by the regime.

It states that Falun Gong practitioners were at a particularly high risk of torture and other ill-treatment in detention…During the year over 100 Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have died in detention or shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food or medical treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment.

In his 2005 Mission to China report, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Manfred Nowak, documented that 66% of all reported torture victims were Falun Gong practitioners.

In the 2004 United Nations Reports on China’s Persecution of Falun Gong, the Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions said the claims of torture occurring within China’s labour camps were particularly brutal.

In the report it stated that “The Special Rapporteur continues to be alarmed by deaths in custody in China. Reports describe harrowing scenes in which detainees, many of whom are followers of the Falun Gong movement, die as a result of severe ill treatment, neglect or medical attention. The cruelty and brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description.”

Pressure on Falun Gong adherents has intensified since January this year, believed to be linked to a drive by Chinese authorities’ to “stamp out” Falun Gong before the Olympics in Beijing. The escalation has resulted in 1,878 arrests across 29 provinces this year, according to the Falun Dafa Information Centre website.
The violence has also extended overseas with mob attacks on Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing, New York since May 17 and harassment and abuse of practitioners in Sydney’s Chinatown and outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
The instigation of group violence against Falun Gong adherents outside China has been linked to Chinese Embassy officials and agent provocateurs.
It was revealed in a recorded phone conversation, that New York’s Chinese Consul General Peng Keyu was responsible for organising the attacks and Zhou Yongkang, the head of the regime’s spy system, was the mastermind behind the attacks.

Petitions tabled in the Australian Parliament regarding the persecution of Falun Gong record the highest number of signatures gathered for a human rights issue in Australian history.
At least 37,000 Australians signed the global “Millions of Signatures” petition, which calls for an immediate end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, with close to one million people having signed the petition worldwide.
Two motions have previously been passed by the Australian Senate. The first, passed in December 2003, motioned to assist the rescue of relatives of Australian Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained in China. The second, relating to the harassment of Falun Gong practitioners in Australia, was passed by the Senate in June 2005.

This has been Wilma Reynolds with China Focus on the SOH Radio Network

Original story from Epoch Times by Jason Wyatt: https://en.epochtimes.com:444/news/8-6-24/72373.html

Another activist Shen Dongmei is also treated by Shanghai officials as an “sensitive” person. Officials sent warnings to Shen to not leave home during the Shanghai leg of the Olympic torch relay. Shen said that from May 19, the regional government summoned me to address the issue, I went there and within 30 minutes I was detained by them. I was only released on May 25.

During this sensitive period of the Olympic Games, human rights activists and petitioners are all under close surveillance by the CCP. At the end of May, over 40 activists sent a joint open letter to the Chief of the International Olympics Committee. The letter described that despite voluntary donations by hundreds of human rights activists after the May 12 earthquake disaster, these activists were nonetheless subjected to threats and harassment by plain clothes police and spies.

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On the twenty first of June, although the Lhasa situation was “basically stable”, Tibetan authorities completed the Olympic torch relay with the city besieged under heavy guard. The original route had been shortened in a three-hour journey, to arrive at the destination in less than two hours.

After the relay torch ended, a melt-fire ceremony was held in the Potala Palace, that is, to merge the torch fire from the torch relay transmission and the torch fire at the top of Mount Qomolangma into one. At the “melt-fire ceremony”, an embarrassing scene happened when the torch fire at Mount Qomolangma extinguished itself.

As Beijing’s Olympic torch relay walked all the way, the protests continued to follow, coupled with the March outbreak as the most serious Tibetan protests that had occurred in the past twenty years, the Communist authorities have been on high alert and mobilized tens of thousands of armed police and public security involved in defending the relay. The alarming extent of guards and protection along the official torch relay route has been astonishing.

One hundred days ago, the event broke out in Lhasa, Tibet, that detonated the global wave of solidarity for the independence of Tibet, had led to the Beijing Olympic torch global relay activities being met with various protests and obstructions.