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As South Korean president Lee Myung-bak visits New York for the UN General Assembly this week, Falun Gong practitioners gather outside the UN building to talk about how they were persecuted by the Chinese regime. These practitioners are urging the South Korean president to stop deporting practitioners who have fled to South Korea back to China. Here's the story.
On Tuesday, Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the United Nations building in New York, calling on the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, to stop deporting practitioners of the spiritual group back to China.
While Lee visits New York for the UN General Assembly and to receive a democracy and humanitarian award, back in Seoul, a 25-year-old Chinese refugee is in a detention center, pending deportation.
The young man, Jin Jingzhe, is a practitioner of Falun Gong—a Chinese meditation practice the Chinese regime has been persecuting since 1999. On September 5th, South Korean immigration authorities and local police arrested Jin after his application for asylum was rejected. If sent back to China, he would be at risk of torture—or even worse.
Falun Gong practitioners in New York who are victims of the Chinese regime's persecution tell their stories, hoping that Jin will not face a similar fate.
This Falun Gong practitioner was arrested by Chinese police nine times and sentenced to seven years in jail. She escaped from China on January 27th this year.
[Zhang Lianying, Falun Gong practitioner]:
"I was beaten up. They didn't let me sleep or go to the bathroom. I went on a hunger strike to protest. They tortured me by force-feeding. Seven people climbed on me, and used the plastic tubing to insert it into my nose and down to my stomach to force feed me...They said, 'we don't care if you die or not.'"
Another Falun Gong practitioner who escaped from China in 2010, tells of other torture methods the regime uses.
[Jia Yahui, Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"An example of brutal torture, especially for females, is they use electric batons to shock the sensitive regions—like the breasts, waist...and other areas."
US Representative Chris Smith supports the call for South Korea to stop the deportation.
[Chris Smith, US Congressman]:
"As it's well known that Falun Gong [practitioners] are brutally persecuted in China along with numerous other groups who attempt to exercise their international human rights, a freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. So, I join my voice, with that of other members of Congress, urging South Korea to recognize Falun Gong practitioners as refugees, and not forcibly return them to China where they will certainly face persecution."
Since 2009, South Korea has deported 10 Falun Gong practitioners to China. Fifty-six have been denied asylum. These deportations breach the United Nations Convention Against Torture and the UN Refugee Convention—South Korea is signatory of both.
Falun Gong practitioners have delivered letters to the Appeal of Conscience Foundation that presents the 2011 World Statesman Award to Lee at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Letters of appeal have also been sent to the South Korean consulates in New York and San Francisco, and all levels of the South Korean government.
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China News September 22, 2011by NTDTV509 views
Stop learning it then, if you want to meditate, go learn something like Tai chi... What a waste of time and resources.
HugeDeek 4 months ago
this doesn't make any sense. south korea has every right to deport chinese out of their country.
nickman777 4 months ago
Falun gang, who do you guys think you are? You guys are bugs, if it wasnt china no one, NO ONE would give a shit about you'll
HanZeroon 4 months ago
If they don’t want them deported, they need to protest to CCP and Chinese embassy to let them stay in South Korea, not to South Korean government. This is really up to China. South Korea does not have the power or strength to topple Chinese authority and go against Chinese communist policies regarding their citizens.
lilyzenonic 4 months ago
Freedom & Democracy for Falun Gong!
VN808 4 months ago
freedom for Falun Gong
wishtree 5 months ago