Index of special report

1. General reports

AI report 2006- China overview, Amnesty International, July 2006
World Bank: China Quick Facts , World Bank, 2006

2. Environmental reports

– China’s Pollution and the Threat to Domestic and Regional Stability , Japan Focus, January 3, 2006

3. Social reports

China’s hidden unrest, by Christin Jones, cpj.org, 2006
Rising unrest in China, By Luis Ramirez, VOA, 2006

Campaign

How Global CCP Resignation Statistics Are Calculated, by NTDTV, Jul 27, 2006

DIT: Report on People Renouncing the CCP via Internet, Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), June 2005

Cuture

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party- Introduction ,
The Epochtimes, Updated on January 10, 2005

Family
Family life in modern China , Radio Netherlands, Aug.22, 2006

Internet
How Google assist Government Censorship in China,  HRW, Aug. 2006
How Yahoo assist Government Censorship in China , HRW, Aug. 2006
How Microsoft assist Government Censorship in China, HRW, Aug. 2006
Undermining freedom of expression in China, AI, July 2006
Internet Filtering in China(2004~05): Executive Summary, ONI, 2006

Law

Original Report: China Organ Harvesting
— REPORT INTO ALLEGATIONS OF ORGAN HARVESTING OF FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS IN CHINA, By David Matas and David Kilgour, July 6, 2006

Media
Media crackdowns: two years before Beijing Olympics, RSF, Aug.7, 2006
Xinhua: the world’s biggest propaganda agency , RSF, Sep 30, 2005

Politics
610 Office: China’s Modern Gestapo, WOIPFG, Updated 2006
9 Commentaries, Part 1- On What the Communist Party Is, The epochtimes, 2005

4. People reports

Lawyer
Lawyer’s 3rd open letter urge China to stop the Brutality, Gao Zhisheng, Dec 12, 2005

Politician
Book: Real Story of Jiang Zemin: Introduction , Jul 02, 2005

Religious

Original Report: China Organ Harvesting
— REPORT INTO ALLEGATIONS OF ORGAN HARVESTING OF FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS IN CHINA, By David Matas and David Kilgour, July 6, 2006
Telephone Messages – Harvesting Organs in China, WOIPFG, March 2006

Rural
China’s Population of Landless Migrants Threatens Stability , VOA, Aug. 2006

Student
Troubled Youth: China’s Student Suicide Crisis , rfa.org, August 19th, 2006

Worker
Death from Overwork in China , China Labour Bulletin, Aug. 2006

Women
Suicide Rampant Among China’s Rural Women, City High-Flyers, Radio Free Asia, 2006.08.30

Telephone Messages(6)- Harvesting Organs in China

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Telephone Message6

Call time: March 30, 2006
A: Investigator B: Hospital Staff
City: Wuhan (Tongji Hospital in Wuhan City)
Tel No.: 0118627-83662688 ext. Kidney Transplant Department (or Urological Surgery Department)
Telephone company record: 3/30/2006 17:46

A: Hello. Is it the Wuhan Tongji Hospital?
B: Yes, it is.
A: Are you the Urological Surgery Department? We need to have kidney transplant.
B: Yes, this is the Kidney Transplant Department.
A: When did you start the large volume kidney transplantation?
B: We are the earliest place. We started a long time ago.
A: How many operations do you do each year?
B: Our hospital is the place where largest amount of transplants have been done. In the whole Hubei Province area, our department is the most productive one. We’ve done a lot because we have ample organ supplies.
A: From a patient’s perspective, live kidney source is preferred. So we are looking for live organ transplantation from prisoners, for example, from those who practice Falun Gong. Is it possible?
B: Sure, it’s not a problem.
A: So do you get enough supplies of live organs from prisoners such as those who practice Falun Gong?
B: Yes, sure, no problem. When you are ready, you can come over directly and we will discuss it in detail.

Note: Picture: Wang Bin, Falun Gong practitioner

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Well-known lawyer Beaten and Detained in Beijing

by Gao Lin, theepochtimes.com, Jul 31, 2006 —
At 10 p.m. on July 30, Gao Zhisheng, the well-known human rights attorney in China, was beaten in front of his residence by three plainclothes agents who had been monitoring him. The beating happened when Gao went to talk with them about the engine noise of their surveillance vehicles that was disturbing residents’ sleep at night. The agents beat him badly, and his elbows were bleeding. Gao was taken by police to the Xiaoguan Police Station.

At 9 p.m. that day, Gao and his family were about to go to sleep. The plainclothes agents who have been monitoring Gao outside his residence, however, turned on their surveillance vehicles to keep the air conditioning going. The loud noise of the engines made it impossible to sleep. Gao went out to negotiate with the plainclothes agents. They argued and the agents promised to turn off the vehicles at 10 p.m. But after 10 p.m. the engine noise continued, so Gao had to call the police.

According to Gao’s wife Geng He, it took Gao over 30 minutes to connect to the police. Gao went downstairs when he thought the police were about to come. Geng He, against Gao’s advice, went out a moment after him, and saw three or four plainclothes agents beating Gao to the ground. Gao’s elbows were bleeding from the beating. One man sat on Gao and another took a brick, about to hit Gao’s head with it. Geng He threw herself between this agent and her husband. She said, “That kind of brick can kill you if you are hit with it on the head!” At this moment, the police car came (answering Gao’s call). The police took away both Gao and the plainclothes agents. Geng He said she escaped the arrest by freeing herself from an agent who tried to pull her into the police car.

Geng He said that in the past eight months, the surveillance vehicles have been monitoring Gao outside their residence 24 hours a day. The engines were kept on all the time to keep the inside of the vehicles warm during the winter and cool during the summer. Residents in their apartment building found it hard to rest at night. They dared not to confront the plainclothes agents, but privately complained many times to Gao and Geng He. When Gao was not at home, these vehicles would leave. Gao had said prior to the beating incident that if this nightly disturbance continues, he would have to leave home again.

An Epoch Times reporter called the Xiaoguan Police Station to ask about Gao’s situation, but was told, “We do not know your identity, so we cannot tell you.” At the time of this report, Attorney Gao is still detained at the Xiaoguan Police Station.

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Lawyer’s 3rd open letter urge to stop the Brutality(9)

We Must Immediately Stop the Brutality That
Suffocates Our Nation’s Conscience and Morality
by Gao Zhisheng /

(cont’d) With a slow and gentle voice, Zhang Zhikui calmly narrated his experience of being persecuted in Changchun City:

“After July 20, 1999 I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Because I clarified the truth of Falun Gong to residents in Beijing, I was arrested by the police in Beijing and transferred to the police of Changchun City’s liaison office in Beijing. There, they tied my hands and feet together onto a wooden club and hung me between two tables by putting the two ends of the wooden club onto the two tables. I swung back and forth. Whenever the wooden club broke, I fell to the floor. As for other practitioners who were also arrested there, the police beat them with leather belts or hung them up. They beat my thighs with a white wood rod.

“Later on, all of us practitioners were sent back to Erdaohezi District Police Substation in Changchun City. At that time, there were 10 or more practitioners. After we arrived there, the head of the Political Protection Department lifted me up and forced me to take off my pants. At that time, there were males and females present. Then, the head of the Political Protection Department beat my head with a leather belt. My head became numb, there was ringing in my ears, and I almost lost consciousness. He asked for my name and the date I went to Beijing. I was barely conscious following the beating, so I couldn’t remember anything. Nevertheless, he continued beating me. And then, he stamped on my feet with his leather shoes, grinding my toes with the heel of his leather shoes. He just observed the expression in my eyes while he was doing this to me. I endured the severe pain and began to sweat profusely. He left me then and began to beat up other practitioners. After I was sent to Tiebei Detention Center, the guards instigated the criminals there to strip me and beat me. The criminals kicked me hard, ramming me into the wall of the restroom. I could barely get up from the ground. Immediately two pots of cold water were poured onto my body. Again they kicked me hard. My arms and legs bled, and there was a big wound on one leg. One month later, I was released from there without any documents and without any legal procedures having been followed. (to be cont’d…)

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amnesty.org /

(cont’d) A proposed new Law on the Rectification of Illegal Behaviour was reportedly being discussed by legislators as a replacement for Re-education through Labour — a system of administrative detention used to detain hundreds of thousands of people for up to four years without charge or trial. Officials indicated that the new law would probably reduce terms of detention. However, elements that contravene international fair trial standards potentially remain unchanged.

A campaign aimed at improving the conduct of the police and eradicating torture was initiated, but few efforts were made to introduce the fundamental legal and institutional reforms necessary to prevent such abuses in practice.

People accused of political or criminal offences continued to be denied due process. Detainees’ access to lawyers and family members continued to be severely restricted and trials fell far short of international fair trial standards. Those charged with offences related to state secrets or terrorism had their legal rights restricted and were tried in camera.

North Korean asylum-seekers

People continued to flee across the border into China to escape the acute food shortages in North Korea. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of North Koreans were arrested and forcibly returned by the Chinese authorities who considered them to be economic migrants and denied them access to any refugee determination procedures, in breach of the UN Refugee Convention. Unconfirmed reports suggested that at least five South Korean nationals of North Korean origin were abducted in China and forcibly taken to North Korea. (to be cont’d…)

 

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More than 1,000 workers riot

China Labour Bulletin [CLB], 28 July 2006— Over 1,000 workers rioted over poor working conditions at a factory in Guangdong province which produces toys for McDonald’s and other firms, according to a New York-based labour rights group.

The incident began on 22 July when workers at the Hengli Factory in Dongguan City protested over meagre wages, the lack of public holidays and poor living conditions, the China Labor Watch (CLW) said. The protest began in the workers’ dormitories and evolved into a riot that stretched into Sunday, with more than 1,000 workers joining in.

It took more than 100 regular local policemen and those from the riot squads as well as factory guards to control the situation. Many people were injured and dozens of workers were arrested, according to CLW.

An official at the Hong Kong-based Merton Co Ltd, which owns the factory, said there had been an incident but refused to comment on the specific allegations.

According to CLW’s investigation, employees at the factory typically work 11 hours a day, six days a week, and rack up to 70 hours of overtime a month.

The factory deducts salary if workers refuse to work overtime and does not pay workers for taking national holidays, vacation days or sick leave, according to the group. Overtime is not paid at the rate of 1.5 times the regular rate as required by the law, it said. There is no base salary for workers, who are paid on a piece rate basis. Salaries range between 600 and 800 yuan (US$75 and US$100) per month. Workers told CLW that they must pay 250 yuan for food and accommodation each month, and complained that the factory’s meals were poor. Merton also failed to provide workers with adequate medical insurance or pensions.

According to workers who were interviewed, 50 percent of Merton’s products were manufactured for McDonald’s. Carol Chan, a senior consultant for McDonald’s public relations company Hill and Knowlton, told AFP the fast food giant did not have an immediate response, because its Hong Kong office had to check with its global headquarters. However, she confirmed that Merton did supply products to McDonald’s in Hong Kong and in other countries, and that the matter is being looked at. “The factory makes toys for McDonald’s restaurants, not just in Hong Kong, but also in other countries… McDonald’s is looking into this matter,” Chan said.

According to Merton’s website, the factory has 10,000 employees producing plastic toys. The company manufactures toys and give-away gift items for U.S. companies McDonald’s, Disney, Mattel, Warner and DC Comics, the website said.

Local police and the industrial park where the factory is located denied any knowledge of the incident.

Sources: China Labor Watch, Agence France-Presse (27 July 2006), Forbes.com (27 July 2006), XFN-ASIA (27 July 2006).

Telephone Messages(5)- Harvesting Organs in China

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Telephone Message 5

Call time: April 2, 2006
A: Investigator B: Hospital Staff
City: Wuhan, Hubei Province( No. 2 Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Province Medical University )
Tel No.: 0118627-67813104 ext. 2960 or 2961

Telephone company record:
4/2/2006 18:05

A: Hi. Is this the No.2 Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Province Medical University?

B: Yes.

……

A: What about kidney sources from prisoners who practice Falun Gong at your place?
B: I would say not bad. Maybe you can ask the General Hospital of Army…the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Zone

A: Hold on for a second…, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Zone …

B: It is also called the Wuhan General Hospital. We share with each other.

Note: Picture above — Liu Yufeng, Falun Gong practitioner.

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Commentary manuscript lands Tibetan youth ten years in prison

(tchrd.org, 25 July 2006)–According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), a 29-year old Tibetan youth, Dolma Kyab, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment term for writing and maintaining a commentary manuscript about Tibet. He is currently imprisoned at Chushul (Ch: Qushui) Prison, “Tibet Autonomous Region” (“TAR”).Dolma Kyab a.k.a Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso (pen name) was arrested on 9 March 2005 in Lhasa where he was teaching History at a Middle School. As a passion for writing, he maintained a commentary manuscript written in Chinese titled “Himalaya on Stir” (Chinese: Sao dong de Ximalayashan), which was a compilation of 57 chapters written on various topics about democracy, sovereignty of Tibet, Tibet under communism, colonialism, religion and belief etc. Along side the manuscript, he also began writing another one on the geographical aspects of Tibet, which was comparatively short, yet touched on sensitive topics about the location and number of Chinese military camps in Chinese occupied Tibet etc.

Upon arrest in March 2005, Dolma Kyab was first detained at the “TAR” Public Security Bureau Detention Centre, popularly known as Seitru in Tibetan. On 16 September 2005, Lhasa People’s Intermediate Court wrongly charged him of “Endangering State Security” and passed a verdict of ten years’ imprisonment term. Although his family appealed for a just retrial, the court upheld the sentence on 30 November 2005. Upon the declaration of sentence, he was shifted to the then newly opened Chushul Prison. However, the prison officials refused to accept him as a prisoner because Dolma had contracted Tuberculosis whilst in detention. After some treatment, he was transferred to Chushul Prison in March 2006 soon after the Tibetan New Year and continues to be imprisoned there.

Lawyer’s 3rd open letter urge to stop the Brutality(8)

We Must Immediately Stop the Brutality That
Suffocates Our Nation’s Conscience and Morality
by Gao Zhisheng /

(Cont’d) “One March 1, they sent me to the No. 3 Detention Center. They checked my heart and blood pressure—none functioned well; my legs could not walk. Even so, I was still sentenced for two years in the labor camp. In a coma, I was carried to the Heizuizi labor camp. I had to be carried to go to the bathroom. The policewoman Liu Lianying from the second team started to persecute me, saying that I was pretending not to be able to walk. Liu barbarously shocked me with an electric baton on my legs, chest, heart—all over my body. At the time, a criminal convict Yi Liwen (who had a good relationship with Liu) could not bear to see it; she took away the electric baton and said, ‘Don’t shock her anymore, look at what bad shape she is in.’ Liu Lianying then stopped. Since I could not walk, the police often cursed me; they used all their conversion experts to try to “transform” me, and the police took turns brainwashing me.

“After a day’s labor, they did not let me sleep, but conducted brainwashing in order to force me to sign this or that paper. I firmly refused. They tortured me like this for two months, and my blood pressure often reached over 200 and I suffered from serious heart disease. Seeing that I refused to be transformed, Jia Hongyan used prostitution convicts to torture me, monitoring me on a 24-hour basis at my side even during eating and sleeping. They forced me to transform, beating and cursing me almost every moment and every day. They did not allow me to speak; if I did they would curse me. Everyday, my body and heart were suffering in great pain. Over a year of persecution brought great harm to my body and mind. My body was numb, and my arms did not move well. I was diagnosed with brain infarction and atrophy. I was originally very healthy, but the one year’s persecution had turned me into such a state. Just because I want to be a good person, I have endured such inhumane torture for such a long time.” (to be cont’d…)

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Torture, arbitrary detention and unfair trials

Torture and ill-treatment continued to be reported in a wide variety of state institutions. Common methods included kicking, beating, electric shocks, suspension by the arms, shackling in painful positions, and sleep and food deprivation. Restricted access to the outside world for detainees and a failure to establish effective mechanisms for complaint and investigation continued to be key factors allowing the practice to flourish.

In May the authorities announced a pilot project allowing police interrogation of criminal suspects in front of video cameras and lawyers in three regions. In July the authorities announced that they were accelerating their campaign to prosecute police who extract confessions through torture, adding that 1,924 officials had been prosecuted since the campaign was launched in May 2004.

• Gao Rongrong, a Falun Gong practitioner, died in custody in June after being detained in Longshan Re-education through Labour facility in Shenyang, Liaoning province. Officials had reportedly her in 2004, including by using electro-shock batons on her face and neck, which caused severe blistering and eyesight problems, after she was discovered reading Falun Gong materials in the facility. (to be cont’d…)

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3 Chinese doctors accused in Boston of organs removal

Criminal Complaint in Boston Accuses Chinese Delegates to WTC of Complicity in Torture

faluninfo.net, Boston, 7/28/2006– A legal complaint filed in Boston charges directors of organ transplant centers in China with overseeing forced removal of body parts such as hearts, livers, and kidneys from living bodies of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. Two Chinese doctors, Chen Zhonghua and Zhu Tongyu, were named in the complaint filed on Tuesday while they were attending the World Transplant Congress annual conference in Boston’s Prudential Center. A third doctor, Shen Zhongyang, was added on Wednesday morning.

Human rights attorney Dr. Terri Marsh filed the complaint, which drew evidence from an investigative report recently issued in Canada. Included in the report are transcripts of phone conversations in which investigators pretending to be organ shoppers converse with doctors in China. In these transcripts, doctors from the three surgeons’ departments openly acknowledge that they have a supply of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners (special report: http://www.killed4organs.net).

In filing the complaint, Dr. Marsh has held that U.S. courts have jurisdiction in this case under Title 18, which allows for the prosecution of perpetrators of torture who are present in the United States, regardless of their country of origin. Dr. Marsh maintains that systematic forced organ removal from living Falun Gong adherents is a form of torture.

News release from Human Rights Law Foundation can be download here

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— by David Matas and David Kilgou

Dongzhou Killings Must Be Investigated

(hrw.org, New York, July 19, 2006)– China is attempting to lay to rest without investigation the most serious governmental assault on public protesters since the Tiananmen massacre, Human Rights Watch said today. In the absence of public disclosure about the role of officials in the deaths of at least three protestors in Dongzhou in December 2005, the sentencing of villagers involved in the protests undermines confidence in the impartiality of the Chinese legal system.

Thirteen Chinese villagers were sentenced on May 24 to prison for up to seven years for illegal assembly, disturbing social order, and illegal possession of explosives after taking part in protests in December 2005. At that time, the Chinese government acknowledged that, “policemen … accidentally killed and injured protestors,” and in May it issued “serious warnings” to some officials. But there have been no public reports of a transparent investigation into the incident itself, the role of officials, or the actual death toll, or whether steps are being taken to prevent a similar use of deadly force in the future. The government simply claims that “the relevant people … have already been gravely disciplined.”

“China’s leaders continue to trumpet their commitment to the ‘rule of law,’ but it’s hard to see this as anything but a political decision,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “When protestors are held incommunicado and convicted in a closed trial but officials get a slap on the wrist, there is hardly a pretense of legality.”

On December 6, 2005, Chinese security forces fired at villagers who were protesting insufficient compensation for land taken for power plant construction in Dongzhou, Guangdong province. It was the most serious shooting of public protestors since the June 1989 massacre of democracy advocates in Tiananmen Square.

Human Rights Watch said the Chinese government should publicly identify the officials reprimanded so far and explain their actions. It should also allow for an independent investigation into the incidents.

“The events in Dongzhou merit serious public scrutiny,” said Adams. “Anything less than that looks more like a cover-up than a search for truth and justice.”

The Chinese authorities admitted in December that three people were killed when security forces fired at the villagers. At the time of the protests, villagers speaking by telephone with foreign journalists put the toll much higher. The killings took place after a large crowd gathered to protest the arrest of villagers involved in negotiations about adequate compensation for the land taken. Dongzhou was sealed off, with roadblocks set up to keep journalists out.

The first official response was to claim that the shootings occurred only after well-organized villagers initiated the violence. Chinese authorities called the incident “a serious violation of the law.” However, local residents also told foreign journalists that security forces had opened fire without warning and that the paramilitary People’s Armed Police (PAP) was seen in the vicinity. Only then did the government begin to backpedal.

In a rare move, an unnamed officer who was identified by the Guangdong provincial government as the commanding officer at the scene was arrested, according to official news accounts. The government said at the time that he was a police commander, detained for mishandling the incident that caused “mistaken deaths and accidental injuries,” and that his “wrong actions” were to blame for the killings.

On December 15, 2005, Human Rights Watch called for Chinese authorities to “reach out and collaborate with independent experts” to ensure a “credible and transparent” investigation. More than 50 Chinese intellectuals made the same demand. Instead, the cases of 13 villagers who were sentenced were heard over a mere three days. It is unclear whether they were tried individually or collectively.

“If the government doesn’t act quickly, the United Nations should be invited in to conduct a fact-finding mission,” said Adams. “The people of Dongzhou, as well as other Chinese citizens, have the right to know what happened and who was responsible.”

No verdict in Zhao Yan trial

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern at the “completely illegal” handling by the authorities of the case of “New York Times” employee Zhao Yan, who faces the death penalty for “fraud” and “revealing state secrets.” The organisation calls for the immediate release of the laureate of the 2005 Reporters Without Borders press freedom prize.

No verdict has been announced within the official six-week time limit (which expired on 25 July 2006) after his behind closed doors trial on 16 June by the Beijing no. 2 intermediate court.

“The New York Times” has applied for his release and his lawyer, Guan Anping, said it was hoped the authorities would “recognise the irregularities in the case and take a just decision.”

Telephone Messages(4)- Harvesting Organs in China

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Telephone Message 4

Call time: March 16, 2006
A: Investigator B: Hospital C: Doctor Dai
City: Shanghai (The Affiliated Hospital of Jiaotong University in Shanghai)

Telephone company record:
Date/Time: 03/16/2006 02:19:39
Phone Number: 011862163240090
Length of Call(minutes): 15

B: Greetings. This is the No. 1 Adjunct Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
A: Hello. May I have your number of liver transplant center?
B: Please wait while we are connecting you…
…..
C: Let me tell you, it should be OK to have liver transplant in your case.
A: I just want to know how long we have to wait.
C: We have supplies everyday. Today for example, we are performing transplant surgery.
A: Well, I mean not just a fresh one. We need one from live human body…
C: Sure, the organs we use are all from live persons.
A: What?
C: They are all live organs! Ours are the best.
A: Then I want to know how long you have been in operation. I want to find out your skill level.
C: We’ve done this for 5-6 years. We have performed such kind of operation for 5-6 years already.
A: Then how many do you do per month?
C: We have done 400 to 500 cases.
A: What? 400 – 500?
C: Yes, that’s right.
A: So you do 400 to 500 transplants every year?
C: No. This year we just started after the Chinese New Year, but so far we’ve done more than 10 cases, 20 to 30 cases already. Each year we did about 100 to 200 transplants.
A: All these organs, they must come from healthy persons. We need the healthy one.
C: I’ll make sure that you’re satisfied after you come.
…
A: I heard some come from those who practice qigong. They are very healthy.
C: Yes, we have this type, but I cannot explain to you clearly over the phone.
A: If you could find me one, I will come right away.
C: Of course. Just come over!
A: Oh, you could. Then how do I find you? What’s your last name? I will look for you.
C: I’m Doctor Dai.
A: Which Dai?
C: The ‘Dai’ as in ‘dai mao’ (=wear a hat).

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Telephone Messages: Evidences of Harvesting Organs in China

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Death penalty

The death penalty continued to be used extensively and arbitrarily, at times as a result of political interference. People were executed for non-violent crimes such as tax fraud and embezzlement as well as drug offences and violent crimes. Based on public reports available, AI estimated that at least 1,770 people were executed and 3,900 people were sentenced to death during the year, although the true figures were believed to be much higher.

Several miscarriages of justice in death penalty cases published in the Chinese press in the first half of the year caused considerable public disquiet and increased momentum towards reform. In September, a senior Supreme Court official announced that the Court was establishing three branch courts to review death sentences. Previously this had been delegated to lower courts, reducing safeguards against unfair proceedings. Officials anticipated that the reform would lead to a 30 per cent reduction in executions. However, national statistics on death sentences and executions remained classified as a state secret, making analysis and monitoring of the death penalty problematic.

• Wang Binyu, a migrant worker from Gansu, was sentenced to death in Ningxia in June for stabbing to death his foreman and three others during a violent dispute about unpaid wages. He reportedly needed the money to pay for an operation for his father. He was executed in October despite calls for leniency from academics and members of the public in the Chinese media. (to be cont’d…)

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Lawyer’s 3rd open letter urge to stop the Brutality(7)

We Must Immediately Stop the Brutality That
Suffocates Our Nation’s Conscience and Morality
by Gao Zhisheng /

“On February 28, 2003, a few days after my release, a bunch of police from the Luuyuan branch of the Public Security Bureau stormed into my home again. A policeman named Yuan Dachuan went through our drawers and took away over 4,000 yuan (about $500) in cash without leaving any receipts. Another policeman pocketed a bottle of foreign perfume my child had brought me from overseas. When Yuan Dachuan was taking my money, I criticized his robbery. He punched me and handcuffed me. They did whatever they liked in my home and the house was all messed up. They abducted me to the torture chamber at the Luuyuan branch and tortured me on the tiger bench for two hours. They then tied me up with a thin rope, with my hands behind my back. The police tightened the rope on me. With my whole body tied up, I was pushed out of the torture chamber. Another group of people threw me into a car. They used my feather-filled coat to cover my head so tightly that I almost suffocated.

“After about 20 minutes, the car stopped, and we arrived at another torture chamber (later on I knew this was at the Chaoyang branch). The room was filled with torture instruments. As soon as we arrived there, they forced me onto the tiger bench, and about six policemen handcuffed me and chained my ankles, fixing a steel rod across my chest (on the tiger bench). A young policeman used a foot-long iron rod to hit my left hand, which was cuffed to the tiger bench. After a dozen strikes, my hand was swollen severely and it turned purple-black. They asked me to tell about other practitioners, and I said I would not say anything. At this time, more than 10 police cuffed my hands behind me. They kept pulling the handcuffs and the ankle chains, and pushing the iron rod against my chest. Stretched under such a strong force, I felt as if my tendons and bones were about to break; I could not breathe. The pain was so unbearable that I fainted a few times. When I fainted, the police poured cold water on me. After I came to, they continued to torture me. I was tortured like this for a day and night, fainting and waking up. As the handcuffs and ankle chains were pulled by the police, they kept piercing into my flesh. Blood was mixed with flesh over my wrists and ankles, making a large pool of blood on the floor. The police treated an old lady like me with such savage tortures. Every nerve and bone hurt beyond endurance in my arms, hands, feet and legs. My whole body was unable to move. (to be cont’d…)

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Book to read: A Survey of Chinese Peasants

Top award winner, forbidden in China

Book:

— Chinese edition: A Survey of Chinese Peasants

— English edition: Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China’s Peasants
Translated by Zuo Hong, Publisher: PublicAffairs at June 26, 2006

Award: Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (2004)

Authers: Wu Chuntao, and Her husband Chen Guidi

Content: “A Survey of Chinese Peasants is an expose on the inequality and injustice forced upon the Chinese peasantry, who number about 900 million. The book describes what the authors term to be a guaiquan, or vicious circle, where unjust taxes and the arbitrariness of authorities, sometimes resulting in extreme violence against the peasants, is the norm”. (by: lettre-ulysses-award.org)

About the authers: Wu and Chen are both members and respected writers of the Hefei Literature Association. Mr. Chen, who is also a member of the Association of Chinese Writers, has been a recipient of the Lu Xun Literature Achievement Award—one of the most important literary prizes in China—for his piece of reportage on the environmental conditions of the Huaihe river. They both come from Chinese peasant families.

About publishing: The book took over three years to write, forcing the couple to spend all of their savings in order to produce the book. Mr. Chen and Mrs. Wu travelled to over 50 towns throughout the Anhui province, made several trips to Beijing to talk with authorities, and interviewed thousands of peasants.

The expose was first published by the literary magazine Dangdai (Modern Magazine) at the end of 2003. Seven million of which were sold throughout China.

The book was suddenly being taken off the shelf by Chinese authorities in March, 2004.

Reactions: Chen can still recall how his status in society slumped within a single day – February 25. “In the weeks before that we did more than 100 interviews, then suddenly, the phone went silent. Later some friends in the media revealed that they had been told that our book was subject to three Nos: no publicity, no serialisation and no criticism.” That did not stop a libel suit against the authors by one of the local officials they have accused of abusing his power. The verdict was expected at the end of last month, but it was postponed after Chen and Wu travelled to Berlin to collect this year’s Lettre Ulysses Award, one of the world’s most prestigious journalistic accolades. (by: The Guardian, 12 November, 2004, London)

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Telephone Messages(3)- Harvesting Organs in China

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Telephone Message 3

Call Date: March 16, 2006
A: Investigator B: Hospital C: Doctor
City: Qianfoshan, Shandong Province
(Qianfoshan Liver Transplant Center in Shandong Province)
— Telephone company record:
Date/Time:03/16/2006 02:42:37
Phone Number:0118653182968900
Length of Call(minutes):16

C: Hello.
A: Hi. I’d like to ask a few questions. How long you have performed liver transplants? Do you…
C: We’ve started since 2002.
A: From 2002 to present?
C: More than four years.
A: As for the liver supplies, usually how long do you keep them?
C: There is a rule of 12 hours. So far we haven’t exceeded 12 hours. The ones we have are all pre-checked.
A: I heard that some livers come from Falun Gong practitioners. So I want to know if you have this type or not?
C: Um. You just need to come.
A: So you mean you have this type?
C: Well, let me tell you, you just come over…er…we will sure to get more this type in April and the number of those suppliers is gradually increasing now.
A: Why will there be more in April?
C: I cannot tell you that because it involves… it doesn’t mean…Anyway, there is no need to explain this to you. This question can’t be answered.

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Voice record (MP3 file) available on WOIPFG’s website:
Telephone Messages: Evidences of Harvesting Organs in China

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by David Matas and David Kilgou

AI report 2006- China overview(4)

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Repression of spiritual and religious groups

Religious observance outside official channels remained tightly circumscribed. In March, the authorities promulgated a new Regulation on Religious Affairs aimed at strengthening official controls on religious activities.

The crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement was renewed in April. A Beijing official clarified that since the group had been banned as a “heretical organization”, any activities linked to Falun Gong were illegal. Many Falun Gong practitioners reportedly remained in detention where they were at high risk of torture or ill-treatment.

Unregistered Catholics and Protestants associated with unofficial house churches were also harassed, arbitrarily detained and imprisoned.

• In November, prominent defence lawyer Gao Zhisheng was forced to close down his law firm for a year after he refused to withdraw an Open Letter to the President and Premier calling on the authorities to respect religious freedom and to stop the “barbaric” persecution of Falun Gong. The order came shortly after he had filed an appeal on behalf of underground Protestant pastor Cai Zhuohua who had been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally printing bibles.

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Lawyer’s 3rd open letter urge to stop the Brutality(6)

We Must Immediately Stop the Brutality That
Suffocates Our Nation’s Conscience and Morality
by Gao Zhisheng /

Liu Shuqin, a 60-year-old lady from Changchun, was arrested and sent to labor camps five times in six years. This old lady calmly told us the barbarous torture she suffered:

“I was first arrested in February of 2000. The police violently hit and kicked us to the police car, which took us to the Balipu Detention Center. I was locked up for 15 days without any legal procedures. Altogether more than 10 of us were arrested, and all experienced unspeakable torture. After that, the Neighborhood Administration Office and the police continued to harass me.

“On December 31, 2000, I was arrested for the second time when I went to Beijing to appeal to the government. I held out a banner that said “Falun Dafa is Good,” and the Tiananmen police hit my back violently with electric batons, forcing me onto a police car. Later I was thrown into a dungeon with walls covered with ice and frost. The police forced me to take off all my clothing, and ordered someone to shoot water on me from a big pipe. They left me to sleep on the bare floor naked, with nothing to cover my body. The toilet in the room stank so much and smelled so bad. Everyday, several policemen came to interrogate me. They did not allow me to sleep at night. After 38 days of interrogation, they did not get anything.

“On December 31, 2001, several practitioners and I hung banners outside to expose the lies of the government about Falun Gong. Someone reported us and we were arrested. The police from the 6-10 Office beat me violently without stopping. At midnight that day, I was sent to the No. 3 Detention Center. There, a policeman punched my eyes with his fists. My eyes became blurry and I could not see anything. They hit my head a few more times. Faced with their brutal behavior, I told them good and evil will be repaid. The police asked inmates to bring a heavy chain weighing 28 kg (approximately 61 lbs.) and put it on my ankles. I was detained for 22 days, during which I suffered tortures that were worse than death. Later on, the police took a lot of money from my family before they released me. (to be cont’d…)

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China’s new wave of Internet censorship

Century China website and a magazine’s chat forum shut down

rsf.org, 26 July 2006– Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate reopening of Century China (Shiji Zhongguo), one of the most influential websites for Chinese intellectuals, and the chat forum of the magazine Life Week (Sanlian Shenghuo Zhoukan), which carried foreign media reports. Century China stopped posting articles by its contributors at the behest of the authorities yesterday, while the Life Week forum was suddenly closed down without explanation.

“In a country where self-censorship reigns, these sites allowed Internet users to express themselves freely on sensitive subjects and to access news they would never find in the traditional media,” Reporters Without Borders said. “At a time when the Chinese Internet seems to be undergoing a new wave of censorship, we remind the authorities that their constitution is supposed to guarantee free expression.”

Visitors to the Century China website yesterday found a message by the site’s administrators saying: “After receiving a note from the competent authorities, the Century China website (www.cc.cn.org) and its chat forum (www.ccforum.org.cn) will be closed from today.” The order was issued on 24 July by the Beijing Communications Administration. In the short period before the closure took effect, hundreds of visitors had time to express their anger or sadness on the site’s forum.

Founded in July 2000 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Beijing Zhongqing Future Community Culture Development Research Institute, the Century China website declared its desire to be “free, independent, democratic, tolerant and rational.” Many intellectuals and dissidents – including Liu Xiaobo, the winner of the Reporters Without Borders – Fondation de France prize in 2004 in the press freedom activist category – posted articles on the site about the latest developments in areas ranging from sport to politics. The discussions were very lively, making it a place for real democratic debate.

Life Week is Beijing-based cultural magazine. A regular visitor to its forum told Radio Free Asia in an interview that it broached sensitive political issues such as corruption in a very open manner. Visitors to the forum also used to post news reports from foreign news media such as the Chinese-language service of the German public radio station Deutsche Welle. It is highly likely that its closure was also carried out on orders from the authorities.

These latest cases of censorship come less than a month after the Council of States’s information office and the ministry of industry and information expressed their intention on 29 June of reinforcing their control over blogs, search engines and chat forums.

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by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)