The 20th day of July, 2009, is the ten-year anniversary of when the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP) began its suppression of the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa also known as Falun Gong by Physical torture and mental torture to force Falun Gong adherents to give up their beliefs. Just the opposite, not only the adherents are affirmative on their beliefs but also survived the CCP’s brutal religious persecution. Following is the recording of Peter and his translator taken at A Decade of Courage Rally. Peter, a courageous Falun Gong practitioner, and his memoir of how he was kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, sleep deprived, forced feeding, forced slave laboring, brainwashing re-education, has revealed the true nature of the CCP. In order to protect Peter’s family from being harrassed by the Chinese policemen back home we do not announce Peter’s Chinese name. We are glad that he made his way to the religious freedom country, the United States, and now he can practice his beliefs with peace of mind. Here is Peter and his translator:

[recording]

July 20 is a day that deserves commemorating. On this day ten years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used every means possible to defame and persecute Falun Gong. Their fabricated propaganda even reached overseas and harmed many innocent people who did not understand the true situation. Having personally experienced this period of history, I can testify to the tyranny of the CCP and the kindness and perseverance of Falun Gong practitioners.

Before the crackdown on Falun Gong, the CCP pretended to allow freedom of belief. On July 20, 1999, they used the media to frame and threaten Falun Gong. They used police to arrest and beat adherents. Suddenly, it felt like evil descended and lies turned the world upside down.

On July 20, 1999, my wife and I went to appeal at the provincial government. Because our appeal had no effect, we went to Beijing to appeal. That day, the city was filled with police and armed police. I witnessed them arresting Falun Gong practitioners. My wife and my presence noticed by the plain-clothes police, and they began following us. The atmosphere was terrifying and tense.

Within two minutes of returning home from Beijing, the local police took us to the police station without any proper procedure or warrant. We were interrogated like criminals. We were not released till late into the night.

My company consequently also received pressure and harassment from the CCP. The manager told me that they received dozens of calls in a day to request that the company transform me, make me give up practicing Falun Gong and guarantee that I would not go to Beijing again.

Because I persevered in my beliefs, I was illegally sentenced to 7 years in jail by the CCP on March 2003. During that time, I experienced cruel torture, brainwashing and salve labor as well as a variety of mental and physical destruction and persecution.

In 2001, several police abducted me using gangster methods. They took me to a hotel. They interrogated and tortured me nonstop for four days and four nights under blinding lights. They used both hard and soft tactics. When their threats failed, they stripped me of my clothes. Then they hung me on the window frame so that my feet barely touched the floor.

They sealed my mouth with tape. They screamed and yelled as they stuck lit cigarettes into my nostrils.Whenever I became silent, they would either aggressively pull my hair over and over again or abruptly yank my body downward. The most vicious torture was called “shaking handcuffs”. This is a method used to force confessions out of murderers. They cuffed one of my hands to the top corner of the window frame so that my feet barely touched the floor. A policeman surnamed Yang cuffed my other hand and violently shook it in the opposite direction. After shaking me like that for a period of time, they would take me down and slap my blackened wrists. Then they would hang me back up and cuff me again. I was shaken so hard that my body was ripping with pain. I even had thoughts of wanting to die.

They also hang me on the window frame while twisting my neck. When they couldn’t turn my neck any further, they would fiercely snap it toward the opposite direction. At that very instant, I felt factures in my neck. During those four days and four nights, I never once got any sleep or food. I was continuously tortured and assaulted. I lost a lot of hair, my wrists became black, my tissues were exposed and I had lost a lot of weight.

After the torture, I was sent to a detention center. The police never notified my family or made any documentations. They used all thuggish means. At the detention center, I was forced to do over 16 hours of slave labor every day. Over 20 people were squeezed into a room not much bigger than 10 square meters in area. We had no hot water, were not allowed to brush our teeth, and had limited bathroom times. We were verbally abused and humiliated every day. Because the room was dark, damp and without clean water, I developed scabies all over my body. They were unbelievably itchy. I was locked up for over a year like this.

In June 2002, I was sent to Lujiang jail. I was locked up in a cell that could only fit one person. There was nothing there but a wooden bed. Two days later, I found out that only Falun Gong practitioners and the mentally ill were detained there.

I fasted twice to protest being persecuted for practicing Falun Gong. When I left the prison a month later, I looked like a holocaust survivor. I could barely see and needed to prop myself up against the wall to walk.

Before I got there, the head person Li Qinhua held a meeting and told over a hundred people that if other criminals talked to me, their sentences would not be reduced. In addition, the prisoners had to monitor me and report my every action to the police. If I needed something, I had to report it to the police. Three prisoners on death row were assigned to monitor me 24 hours a day. Another 3 people were assigned to monitor those who assigned to monitor me. Every day, they had to write a report, detailing all my actions, including sleep and bathroom times. They weren’t allowed to lend me anything, not even a piece of scratch paper.

The police used sentence reduction as bribery for the criminals who monitored me and to tried to collapse my determination and destroy my faith. This type of terror and threat surrounded me. I witnessed a 23-year-old Falun Gong practitioner being tortured to death. His name was Chu Zhiyong. My heart tightened. It was a sense of pain from being enveloped by terror. I reminded myself everyday that I needed to continue living so that I can expose their evilness.

In addition to physical torture, there was mental torture. Once you were sent to jail, you were forced to write reports about your thought processes. Every year, the jail supervisors sent agents to “transform” Dafa practitioners. We were forced to watch videos defaming Falun Gong and write “learned experience” statements based on their standards. They tried to force us to give up the faith to Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. If you didn’t “transform”, you were not allowed to see your family members and not allowed to buy things, including toilet paper.

I returned home after over five years of torture. But I didn’t get true freedom back. The CCP used various methods to tell me that I could no longer have freedom. I was added to the blacklist by the CCP and often received their harassment.

During one of my business trips, the local police search my belongings for Falun Gong books without any warrant. They threatened that I should not go anywhere by myself, and that there would be random inspections. The police also told my business partners and landlord that I was a Falun Gong criminal. My landlord was asked to stop letting me rent housing, and my partners were forbidden from doing business with me. This type of harassment never ceased since my release. Neighbors and friends were all afraid to come to my home because of the fear of being implicated. This type monitoring made me live every moment of my life in terror.

My experience is only one page in the tragedy of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. During these past ten years of persecution, many people were imprisoned, made homeless, used for organ harvesting, and many families have been destroyed. Today, we definitely cannot ignore the CCP’s trampling of the China and the Chinese people. We call on the all righteous forces in the world to disintegrate the CCP, stop the persecution, and bury the CCP, an evil demon that harms humankind.

[ending of recording]

Is there any other government in the world besides The CCP utilized such horrendous torture methods to its own people? The CCP severely violated the international human rights code is unpardonable and criminal. Clearly, by looking at the drastically increasing number of resinding membership to the CCP in China, as of today, there are 57 million Chinese quit the CCP, the date of dissolving of the CCP is numbered. To hear more reportings on the CCP’s misconducts please visit
www.sohnetwork.com. This is Catherine Hennessy reporting A Decade of Courage for Sound of Hope Radio Network.

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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Insiders reveal, since Yu was sentenced on the first of June two thousand, the government had twice ransacked his home. Everything from the walls, floor, to the shed was stripped of all valuables. Even exercise mats and small Falun emblems, which were pinned to clothes, were confiscated. On the nineteenth of March in the same year, the state issued an order to dismiss Yu’s wife, from the Air Force Commanders Academy. Their home was sealed off with official tape and locks, shortly before Jiang was illegally sentenced.

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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Members of the Yichuan City Family Church have called on the international community’s assistance in the matter.

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A Mr. Wang from Shanghai said that the terror employed by the CCP in Flushing was all too familiar to appellants in China. In his opinion, it was a tactic employed by the CCP authorities to divert attention from complaints after the earthquake. Wang said they got themselves in a tight corner since the Sichuan earthquake. Why? The whole nation started questioning in the aftermath of the quake. Now in order to divert attention… in my opinion, the Flushing incident was simply a means for them to divert attention. They felt that they could not face the public condemnation, so they distracted the public. This is an old tactic of theirs.

Mr. Yue from Hong Kong said that the CCP’s corruption made life impossible for the people. Sooner or later the society will be in turmoil.

According to sources, recently because more and more people in Flushing came forward with information on thugs that attacked Falun Gong practitioners, a reporting centre for the Flushing incident has been set up at the Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP. The public, western or Chinese, in Flushing, in New York and all over the United States are called upon to report the CCP thugs who committed violent acts and their behind-the-scene instigators.

To read transcript please click hereChinese Consul General Peng Keyu admitted in a phone conversation with a WOIPFLG investigator that the Chinese Consulate was involved in the hate crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing, New York.

Assailants Arrested as Mob Surrounds, Assaults Falun Gong

NEW YORK – The Falun Dafa Information Center has obtained a recorded phone conversation with New York City’s Chinese Consul General, Mr. Peng Keyu, in which he confirms his role in organizing a mob of several-hundred Chinese immigrants to assail Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing, New York, over the past four days.

The recording was made on Thursday May 22 by an undercover investigator and lasts for 5 minutes and 7 seconds. During the conversation, Peng appears to boast of his involvement, saying “Oh indeed, we have done it.” Consul General Peng continues, offering some details of the event: “I went there [the site in Flushing where the mob was harassing Falun Gong practitioners] the day before yesterday, and also three days ago, because we have to be very careful with this kind of thing!,” Peng told the investigator, whom he apparently believed to be an admirer. “Otherwise, people will say the Chinese consulate is behind it, agitating people. Some [Chinese community leaders] were among the crowd and they talked to me afterwards… Because I showed up at the scene, everyone was very excited.”

During the four days of harassment and violence, several adherents of Falun Gong, including U.S. and Canadian citizens were physically assaulted by the pro-communist crowds. Others received direct threats on their lives. (news) At least two arrests have been made by Queens police, who also arranged a police van to safely transport Falun Gong adherents from the area on Wednesday for fear they would be followed by members of the mob.

“We were surrounded by hundreds of people yelling and cursing at us, and even threatening to kill us because we ‘are Falun Gong’” said Scott Chinn, a Falun Gong practitioner and New York City resident who witnessed the scene on Tuesday.

Falun Dafa Information Center spokesperson, Ms. Gail Rachlin says the actions of the mob constitute a hate crime. “In this country, when you see a mob like that attacking a group, beating people and saying things like ‘we’ll kill you Falun Gong,’ it’s a hate crime. The fact that it’s occurring openly on the streets of New York City and instigated by a foreign Communist government is outrageous.”

During the recorded conversation, Consul General Peng described the Consulate’s influence with Chinese Community leaders and its frequent use of that influence to attack Falun Gong on U.S. soil. “I have done it very frequently…I would say I have kept a very good relationship with them [Chinese community leaders]… I pay them personal visits frequently… For example, they came over after they fought with Falun Gong and I shook hands with them one by one and thanked them.”

Since the Chinese Communist regime banned Falun Gong in China and launched a campaign to “eradicate” the traditional Chinese practice in 1999, Falun Gong adherents in the U.S. and other countries have reported dozens of incidents of harassment, intimidation or assault at the hands of Chinese nationals believed to be hired or encouraged by local Chinese consulate officials to attack Falun Gong.

Similar mobs have appeared alongside human rights rallies in the U.S. in recent months.

This most recent violence is part of a larger pattern of violence perpetrated against Falun Gong activists by Chinese agents in the United States.

In February 2006, Mr. Yuan Li, a computer engineer actively involved in Falun Gong human rights advocacy, was assaulted at his suburban Atlanta home. The assailants forced their way into his home, wrapped Li in a blanket, beat him about the head and face, and left him bloody and nearly unconscious in his living room. The assailants took a computer and some files, but no valuables were stolen. (news)

In 2003 the U.S. Congress passed House Congressional Resolution 304, stating, “over the past 5 years China’s diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States.” In 2002, about 50 Falun Gong followers filed a lawsuit in the D.C. district court against two ministries of the People’s Republic of China government, alleging a systematic campaign of criminal activities designed to intimidate, harass, injure, limit, and terrorize U.S. citizens and residents who practice Falun Gong. (news)

The Falun Dafa Information Center is calling upon federal and local authorities to investigate the roles of the Chinese consulate in instigating the recent violence in New York City and other areas, and to hold all responsible Chinese officials fully accountable for these acts of harassment and violence.

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Jiang Sunian said that in April this year, public security broke up a four hundred strong gathering of underground Catholics in Wenzhou, while they held a service in the Lin family church.

Jiang Sunian and Shao Min Zhu, the organizers of the Wenzhou underground Catholic Church, wanted to visit the Vatican in 2006 but were denied passports by the authorities. They had to borrow other people’s identity cards to travel to the Vatican as tourists. Later that year on the 25^th September when they returned to China, they were arrested by public security upon arrived in Shenzhen. They were charged with ‘illegally exiting’ China by the Wenzhou court and were sentenced to eleven and nine months imprisonment respectively.

Jiang Sunian was sentenced in 1999 to six years imprisonment because he printed the Bible. He was released in two thousand and three.

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A Chinese person of Han race, who originally opposed the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, and also did not believe the Western media reports, returned from the Tibetan area, expressing that reports by overseas media have not wronged the CCP, on the contrary, they reported only 1% of the CCP’s evil conducts. He also stressed that the Chinese military and armed police who occupied the temples and expelled monks, treat Tibetans brutally and ruthlessly, which greatly shocked and disgusted him. He said that the outside world could not imagine the situation over there.

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There are also reports that 5 people in a village were beaten to death by armed police and people who sent quilts to nuns in prisons have been dismissed from their workplaces as a form of punishment. A
According to reports, the so-called “anti-secession” centred “ideological and patriotic education” campaign has already spread to the various Tibetan regions in western China.