Please understand the truth about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Please do not believe the Chinese Communist Party's lies. Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) teaches 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance', it teaches us to be a GOOD person, and it makes us HEALTHY.
And it is embraced in over 100 nations!
请了解法轮功和中共残酷迫害法轮功的真相。法轮大法（法轮功）好，114个国家都热爱她，请不要被中共的谎言欺骗。（http://falundafa.org）
September 03, 2010 | By a Bulgarian Falun Gong practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On July 20, 2010, the day that Falun Gong practitioners marked their eleven-year-long efforts to work against the persecution of Falun Gong in China, Bulgarian National Television Channel 7’s morning program especially invited two Western practitioners to introduce Falun Gong. The practitioners demonstrated the exercises for the host and the audience during the live broadcast.
Bulgarian Falun Gong practitioner (left) demonstrates the exercises for the host and the audience
On July 19, Channel 7 TV repeatedly aired a preview of its upcoming interview with Falun Gong practitioners on July 20.
At the end of the live program on July 20, two practitioners presented to the two hosts their handmade paper lotus flowers that are a symbol of hope. They called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
Brightly decorated stores stuffed with Christmas toys have brought back painful memories for Jennifer Zeng.
Imprisoned for her beliefs and forced to make toys for a multinational company … Jennifer Zeng meditates in Sydney. Photo: Andrew Taylor
As she waits in Sydney for her refugee status to be assessed, the 35-year-old Falun Gong practitioner recalls her 12-month imprisonment in Beijing’s Xin’an Labour Camp, where she says beatings, electric shocks and sleep deprivation were all part of the [Jiang Zemin’s] Government’s re-education program for those convicted of belonging to the outlawed meditation [group].
And stamped indelibly on her brain are the faces of 100,000 long-eared, buck-toothed toy rabbits, bearing the Nestle brand.
“We were told that the money received for each rabbit was the equivalent of about six Australian cents,” says Ms Zeng. “The labour camp took it all. We received nothing.”
Ms Zeng and about 130 other prisoners were forced to begin work each day at 5:30am and continue until early the next day, seven days a week.
The prisoners were not permitted to sleep for more than three or four hours between shifts, she says.
Ms Zeng is calling for an independent investigation into the use of unpaid prison labour from China’s re-education camps.
Amnesty International says it has since catalogued a pattern of arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, and torture of Falun Gong practitioners, which has resulted in more than 250 deaths in police custody.
A spokesman from Nestle’s Australian office said he was unable to comment on Ms Zeng’s allegations and forwarded the Herald’s questions to the company’s head office in Switzerland. Nestle subsequently released a statement to the Herald, confirming that the company placed an order with an established Beijing-based toy manufacturer, Beijing MiQi Toys Co Ltd, for 110,000 plush rabbits for a Nesquik promotion early this year.
According to Nestle’s head office, however, there is no evidence linking forced labour with Nestle’s business dealings in China, where the company employs about 8000 workers in 18 factories across the country.
“In line with the Nestle Corporate Business Principles, Nestle does not buy products or materials from companies or institutions that use forced labour or involuntary prison labour,” the statement said.
Ms Zeng has completed a detailed description of the toys she says Falun Gong prisoners were forced to make under inhumane conditions – toys she subsequently identified on several Nestle Web sites.
“I wish to ask related organisations to conduct independent investigations into the matter and prove to the world that Chinese labour camps force people to produce export products.”
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
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(Minghui.org) Choi Seong-gi, 55, is the director of Woosuk Dental Clinic in Gimje-si, South Korea. His wife is a middle school principal and they have three children. If you ask him what he is most grateful for in his life, however, he says it is Falun Dafa.
It was around 2000 that Choi first heard about the practice. At that time, he had just finished studying in Japan and was working at a university hospital. One day, several professors at the medical school were talking about a qigong system in China. “Lots of people practice it—it’s a very good system,” one of them explained. “But unfortunately it has been suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
Interested in spiritual things, including qigong, Choi was impressed and learned the system was called Falun Dafa. Over the next few years, however, he still tried other systems. One day he somehow remembered Falun Dafa and decided to give it try. So he downloaded the exercise video from the FalunDafa.org website and began to learn.
Choi Seong-gi, director of the Woosuk Dental Clinic, said he learned many things from Falun Dafa that are unavailable anywhere else.
Finding the True Way
Not long after that, he noticed that the convenience store he often frequented had Falun Dafa pamphlets on display, so he struck up a conversation with the store manager and asked about them. It turned out that the manager’s wife had been practicing Falun Dafa for a number years, and they both liked it a lot. “It was interesting that I had never met any Falun Dafa practitioners before,” Choi recalled, “but when I wanted to practice it, they were right around the corner. I felt so fortunate.”
As time went on, he not only did the practice at home, but he also told his neighbors and friends about it. They were perplexed. “I’ve heard that people who are frustrated or depressed might end up in temples or meditate in the mountains,” one person said. “But you have a successful career and a beautiful wife. What made you interested in this?” When that happened, Choi would smile and share his story.
Since he was a child, sunsets had depressed him. They made him feel sad and empty, even fearful and panicky. Although he was young, he often wondered why we came to this world and what happens to us after death.
Looking for answers, he began to study Taoism, in particular Kendo, a martial art that uses a bamboo sword. After practicing it for 25 years, he reached Level 5. Instead of stopping there, he continued studying qigong, inner elixir, and Shaolin Kung Fu.
Despite stacks of books and decades of time, Choi was still not satisfied with what he found until he ran into Falun Dafa. “To me, this is the True Way, and I no longer need to search anymore,” he said.
Letting Go of Fame
Falun Dafa not only answered Choi’s questions, but it also taught him much more.
One example was the time he studied in Japan. Before that, he felt good about being a dentist, even a little superior and arrogant. But with over 600 other dentists at the Japanese university, he felt like just a poor student from another country. That really bothered him.
That negative feeling festered within him for years. It was not until he became a Falun Dafa practitioner that he had a better understanding of why that was. “To me, being a dentist meant fame and wealth. That was why I could not accept it at the time,” he said. “As a practitioner, now I know how harmful—and miserable—the attachment to fame is.” This helped him understand why one should forsake such attachments.
Choi often hands out Falun Dafa information at the entrance to a coffee shop in a park near his home.
The Mentality of Struggling
For health reasons and as a spiritual pursuit, Choi used to study Kendo and other systems. After studying Kendo for 25 years, he had developed an attachment to fighting. Sometimes, even without saying it out loud or doing anything, his mind was wild like boiling water.
When he first began to practice Falun Dafa, Choi still had a bad temper and was sometimes furious with his wife. But after a while, he would apologize. “I would rage at her one minute and then calm down and sincerely apologize to her the next. My wife was confused—she did not understand or know how to handle it,” Choi recalled, a bit embarrassed.
Looking Within
As time continued, Choi was also able to do better at work. A patient once came in with a complaint. The doctors did not find anything wrong, but one of the patient’s cheeks was still swollen and inflamed.
Although he wasn’t the person’s attending physician, as the director of the clinic, Choi was very worried about that patient. “One day I suddenly realized that, as a practitioner, I should look inward,” he explained. “Then I noticed I resented the attending dentist.”
The next morning, Choi apologized to the dentist. When the patient arrived, they were surprised to see that his condition had improved dramatically. “I was very touched—this is what cultivation is,” he continued, adding that situations like that had happened to him many times.
A Broader Viewpoint
Looking back on his cultivation journey, Choi is very thankful for the opportunity to cultivate.
“Falun Dafa taught me the meaning of life and much more—I had been searching for decades and no other practice offered enlightenment like this,” he said. “This practice is truly amazing.”
With an inner peace gained from Dafa, Choi always finds many areas in which to improve. “As a practitioner, I will do better in cultivation and fulfill my responsibilities,” he said.
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
January 30, 2010 | By a Falun Gong practitioner in Malaysia
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners held activities, including group exercises and a performance by the Divine Land Marching Band, to introduce Falun Gong at Jetty Sungai Lima on Pulau Ketam (also called Crab Island) in Selangor, Malaysia on January 24, 2010. They received a warm welcome from villagers and local authorities.
Practitioners do the exercises at Jetty Sungai Lima, Selangor, Malaysia
Practitioners arrived in Sungai Lima, a fishing village, at 1:00 p.m., where they found the village head waiting for them at the jetty.
The Malaysian company of the Divine Land Marching Band performed on the island two years ago on Malaysia’s national holiday. The band returned today and marched in this island village once again. Villagers enthusiastically applauded the performance. Other practitioners handed out flyers about Falun Gong along the parade route.
A villager told the coordinator of the activity that he had been looking forward to this event. Another villager recalled that he had seen the performance by the Divine Land Marching Band at Port Klang at last year’s Lantern Festival, and he was deeply impressed.
After the parade, practitioners did the exercises at the jetty. Villagers were impressed by the gentle and smooth movements. Some wanted to learn Falun Gong after they learned how it has brought physical and mental well-being to people of different nationalities in over 100 countries.
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
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Oct. 27, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent in Shandong Province, China
(Minghui.org) The police in Jinan City, Shandong Province, seized a Falun Gong practitioner and his cousin on October 4, 2022. According to his cousin, who was released a few days later, the Yuanzhi Police Station officers handcuffed Mr. Xu Wenlong and put heavy shackles on him. They drew a sample of his blood and threatened to kill him. Mr. Xu was later given six months of house arrest to be served in Laosilijie Police Station. He has since been denied family visits.
This isn’t the first time that Mr. Xu, 36, has been targeted for his faith. He was previously arrested twice and sentenced to eight years in prison following one of the arrests.
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 20, 1999.
Details of Most Recent Arrest
Three officers went into Mr. Xu’s home on the afternoon of October 4. His cousin was with him at the time. Mr. Xu refused to go with the officers, and his cousin told them that the arrest was illegal. The officers held the two on the ground as one officer sat on Mr. Xu.
Ten more officers soon showed up. They handcuffed Mr. Xu and his cousin behind their backs and took them to Zhiyuan Police Station. Mr. Xu’s mother had just had major surgery and was upset to hear of her son’s arrest.
On their way to the station, an officer in his 30s beat and verbally abused Mr. Xu in the police vehicle. Mr. Xu’s shirt was ripped and he had pain in his ear.
At the police station, Mr. Xu asked for an investigation into police brutality but was ignored. He and his cousin were locked in separate rooms.
The officers ordered Mr. Xu’s cousin to sit in an iron chair that had locks and belts to restrain her. They accused her of obstructing the police at Mr. Xu’s home. She argued that it was the police who violated the law by using excessive force.
Torture reenactment: Iron chair
Even though she doesn’t practice Falun Gong, the police ordered her to curse the founder of the practice and said they would release her if she did. She refused to comply and told them that no law in China deems Falun Gong a crime and that Mr. Xu’s belief was protected by the Chinese Constitution. When she warned them that there would be legal consequences for their participation in the persecution, the police said that they were just robots doing what they were told to do. The police left her in the room overnight.
Torture reenactment: Heavy shackles
The next morning, Mr. Xu’s cousin heard the sound of shackles hitting the ground. It turned out that Mr. Xu had just been brought back after being forced to have a physical exam in the hospital. They put him in a room next to hers. She overheard two officers talking about a kidney selling for 400,000 yuan. She asked them if they were talking about harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners. They said didn’t reply.
She kept hearing the sound of shackles hitting the ground from the next room and thought it sounded like the officers were pushing Mr. Xu around or hitting him. Someone later went out to get rubbing alcohol and cotton balls. She then heard Mr. Xu scream. Two officers carried him to the men’s room. She asked to use to restroom, and as soon as she got there, she heard Mr. Xu scream in the men’s room. She also heard an officer swear at him and threaten to kill him.
She shouted from outside for the officers to stop beating Mr. Xu. Several of them came out, denied he was being beaten, and forbid her from using the restroom. As they put Mr. Xu back in his cell, one of them laughed at him, “Why doesn’t your belief protect you?”
The officers joked that arresting Mr. Xu and his cousin together seemed like “Buy one, get one free.” She protested and accused the police of dereliction of duty. An officer took her to an interrogation room and told her that she would be detained for five days because she “used a cult organization to sabotage law enforcement.”
She said the police were fabricating the charges. They’d first accused her of “obstructing the police” but changed the charge to “using a cult organization to sabotage law enforcement” the next day without any basis.
The officer suggested that if she disagreed with the decision, she should appeal. After she signed her name on the complaint and submitted it, she regretted doing so, because it implied that she acknowledged the arrest, detention, and interrogation as part of a legal process.
Before releasing her, six officers took her to a well-equipped room, saying that every detainee had to give their fingerprints and a blood sample. She remembered that the Chinese authorities collected and analyzed the blood samples of Falun Gong practitioners and put the information in an organ-matching database so that they could target the practitioners for their organs in the future.
She asked why they needed a sample of her blood when none of the officers denied her suspicion that they were collecting blood samples for organ harvesting. One officer held her down and bent her fingers backward while another ran out to get alcohol and cotton balls. They stabbed a needle into her hand and she screamed in pain. She then recalled hearing Mr. Xu’s screaming in this room and realized that the police were likely drawing his blood then.
Previous Arrests and Persecution
Mr. Xu, a native of Muling City, Heilongjiang Province, was born in 1986. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in July 2010. He was regarded highly by his teachers and classmates because he worked hard and earned many awards and scholarships at school.
Only a year after he graduated, the then 25-year-old was arrested in Beijing on June 17, 2011, and sentenced to eight years in the Chaoyang District Court. He was transferred to Tailai Prison in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, on December 26, 2012, and was tortured.
Mr. Xu’s second arrest took place on April 6, 2022, after the police found Falun Gong literature in his car. They detained him overnight with his hands cuffed behind his back and released him the next day on bail.
Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.
To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.
For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.
