New evidence has come to light that further proves the case that the Chinese Communist Party has been harvesting organs from illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners. A new documentary has unwittingly bolstered the case championed by human rights lawyers David Kilgour [KILL-gore] and David Matas [MAY-tuss]. Here's that story:
Aug. 14 - UK broadcaster ITN's cameras catch the moment their correspondent is arrested as he tries to report on a protest by pro-Tibet activists.
John Ray was forcibly removed along with pro-Tibet demonstrators outside Beijing's Ethnic Minorities Park, close to the main Olympic zone on Wednesday (13 August 2008).
What started as a peaceful demonstration allowed to proceed by the Chinese police ended in angry clashes between police officers and protesters after activists tried to display the 'Snow Lion' flag which symbolises a free Tibet and is illegal in China.
Ray was bundled into a police van and taken away and later released.
China has said the Olympics should not be used as a platform for political protest.
With the Olympics less than two weeks away, it is time to assess progress made by the Chinese authorities to improve human rights in line with their own commitments made in 2001 when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Beijing to host the Games. Regrettably, since the publication of Amnesty International’s last Olympics Countdown report on 1 April 2008, there has been no progress towards fulfilling these promises, only continued deterioration. Unless the authorities make a swift change of direction, the legacy of the Beijing Olympics will not be positive for human rights in China.
On July 1999, former Communist Party leader, Jiang Zemin, mobilized the military, police, secret agents, and foreign affairs offices to carry out the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners physically;meanwhile, he had all radio stations, television stations, newspapers,and other media continuously defame and slander Falun Gong so as to incite hatred among the general public. The brutal persecution sought to destroy practitioners physically and mentally through the use of torture and forced-brainwashing; economically through the denial of employment and extortion; and socially by breaking up families via such means as detention, relocation, forced divorce, and homelessness to avoid arrest. The often severe physical abuse has resulted in countless deaths (thousands of which are documented), as well as thousands of cases of severe torture-inflicted disability.
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