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On March 18, 2008, the International Federation for Justice in China received a letter to rescue 23 Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand; their situation is very serious. So the International Federation for Justice in China calls upon all the international coalitions of human rights groups, government agencies and international non-governmental organizations, from humanitarian consideration, to give these people, who have qualified for UNHCR official asylum status, the necessary humanitarian help so they will not be in danger of being sent back to the persecution they just managed to escape, and so the freedom they are so close to obtaining will not be denied.
The letter follows:
Dear Sir/madam
I am writing to ask for you to help the 23 Falun Gong refugees detained in the Immigration Detention Center in Thailand. They were arrested separately on Feb 8, March 13, and 14 while sitting in meditation across the street from the Chinese Embassy in (insert name of city). They were simply exercising their right to freedom of speech by giving out free information about the communist regime’s severe human rights violations.
The Communist regime persecuted them badly in China, just because of their belief. They went to Thailand to seek asylum. The United Nations gave them refugee status. They are thus refugees recognized by the UNHCR.
On a policy level, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating genocide against Falun Gong practitioners while at the same time denying them their passports.
Even when some are lucky enough to get a passport, Thai authorities refuse to extend them a visa. Therefore they have to wait in the long queue to be resettled by the UNHCR.
The CCP then manipulates the Thai Special Operation Division of the Royal Thai Police and Immigration Police to arrest them for illegal entry or for overstaying. It is like kicking a person out of his home and then calling the police to arrest him for being homeless.
All caring people regret seeing them jailed, not just because they don’t have the documents denied them by their own persecutory government, but also because the Thai police have became an arm of the CCP in committing human rights violations.
By jailing these refugees, the involved Thai officials are helping the CCP to cover up its crimes against humanity and are themselves committing unjust acts.
Dear all, I am pleading for your help. These practitioners did nothing wrong; they came to Thailand because they want to survive and because they share the same American dream of respect and freedom that exists in free world countries everywhere.
Please lend them your voice, help them obtain freedom, and keep them from being returned to the environment from which so very few manage to escape.
Thank you,
A Falun Gong practitioner in Thailand
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