On June 18th Chinese authorities detained Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner, Chung Ting-pang. They have accused him of interrupting satellite TV signals and receiving classified documents from Chinese residents, among other things. Falun Gong practitioners are saying the real issue isn’t whether or not the charges are true, but that the CCP has stifled any dissenting voices in its bid for total control.
Information on Falun Gong has been tightly controlled in the Mainland since 1999 when the spiritual practice was first persecuted. By silencing voices, the CCP uses state-controlled media to justify the persecution of Falun Gong. Breaking through the information blockade is a means that Falun Gong practitioners have employed to speak out about the persecution.
[Professor Chang Ching-hsi, Taiwan Falun Dafa Association President]:
“The ‘Constitution’ of the CCP and the international conventions it signed all protect the right to assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom to believe, but in reality it doesn’t uphold these rights at all. In terms of how the Chinese Communist Party treats Falun Gong, and other groups it wants to persecute, in reality, it uses all the media to cover up its acts of persecution. We don’t know whether Chung Ting-pang did those things, but doing so would have been a good deed [for the Chinese people] …..If there is anyone that can break the monopoly, it will uphold the essence of the constitution and the spirit of the international treaties. We feel that if someone were able to do this, it would be very courageous.”
Chung Ting-pang, a Taiwanese citizen, was detained in China without the presence of a lawyer. His family members have not been allowed to visit him.
A previous successful attempt at intercepting satellite signals in Changchun, Northern China in 2002, landed Falun Gong practitioners in jail. Many participants were tortured and killed.
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