Amnesty International AI similarly describes Falun Gong as a "spiritual movement founded in the early s in China with links to Buddhism and traditional Chinese self-cultivation practices" Dec.
AI indicates however, that the number of Falun Gong practitioners was estimated to be 40 million before the state banned the movement AI Dec. Sources indicate that the Chinese government began a campaign against Falun Gong practitioners in July ibid. According to an article published in the journal China Quarterly by Stephen Noakes, a lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Auckland who specializes in Chinese politics and foreign policy University of Auckland n.
According to a July article published by Arutz Sheva, an Israeli news website, Falun Gong practitioners are "arrested and tortured" 21 July Similarly, Freedom House reports that members of spiritual groups including Falun Gong "face harassment, imprisonment, and torture" 28 Jan.
In correspondence with the Research Directorate, the founder and President of China Aid, a US-based Christian international human rights organization which seeks to "expose religious freedom and human rights abuse" in China China Aid n. The article by Noakes and Ford also indicates that "[p]arty officials continue to devote significant resources to the struggle against Falun Gong, launching nationwide campaigns to enhance surveillance and propaganda work and to detain and coercively re-educate its practitioners" July , 2.
Freedom House indicates that Falun Gong "adherents continued to suffer large-scale detention in extralegal centers for forced conversion or sentencing to long prison terms during " ibid. The same source states that detainees have been subjected to "torture," including but not limited to, electric shock, burning with hot irons, prying finger nails with bamboo shoots, rape and sexual torture FDIC 9 Apr.
According to the article written by Noakes and Ford, Falun Gong adherents, "who once comprised a plurality of laojiao [labour camp] detainees, are now being sent in greater numbers to prisons or to specialized re-education centres overseen by the Office" July , 7.
According to the US Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for , Falun Gong adherents have also been committed to mental health facilities and "involuntarily subjected to psychiatric treatment for political reasons" US 25 June , 6.
Minghui, a Falun Gong-affiliated website and volunteer organization dedicated to reporting on the Falun Gong community globally, with a focus on China Minghui n. Of those arrested, practitioners were sent to brainwashing centres and 55 were sentenced to prison terms ibid.
Minghui further reports that between January and June , Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Beijing; another 12 individuals were harassed in their homes but not arrested while 5 have been reported missing ibid.
Corroborating information could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.
Sources from and state that Falun Gong detainees are subjected to "brainwashing" or ideological "transformation" China Aid 26 Aug. According to the FDIC, this process is reported to involve sleep deprivation, threats, and being forced to watch videos vilifying Falun Gong ibid. According to the article by Noakes and Ford, the government of China launched a re-education campaign against the Falun Gong known as "the final battle on education and transformation," which was advertised on government and party websites in every province of China July , 8.
AI similarly states that the campaign launched in seeks to "educate and transform" Falun Gong practitioners deemed to be "stubborn and obsessed," and sets "transformation" quotas of up to percent of the number of Falun Gong practitioners in a given district AI Dec. Noakes and Ford quote the Yunyang County Chongqing Municipal People's Government as stating that authorities "enter villages, households, schools, businesses, and Party cells in search of Falun Gong practitioners to transform" Noakes and Ford July , 8.
The article also reports that the plan promotes "re-education centres" as the main venue for "transformation work" while "some documents also call for close cooperation with the judiciary to sentence practitioners to prison" ibid.
Sources report on cases of human rights lawyers being detained, including those representing Falun Gong practitioners The Guardian 13 July ; Financial Times 12 July UK-based daily newspaper the Guardian reports that in July , human rights lawyers and activists were "detained and questioned" in a country-wide "crackdown," including one lawyer who defended Falun Gong practitioners 13 July Similarly reporting on the "crackdown," the Financial Times, a global business news organization and newspaper, states that there was a "co-ordinated nationwide sweep" of human rights defenders, including some lawyers who defended Falun Gong practitioners, during which 77 people were "summoned, arrested, questioned, or detained" Financial Times 12 July Sources in note that Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who represented Falun Gong practitioners, was detained and tortured by Chinese authorities before his release in The Times 16 Aug.
UK-based daily newspaper the Daily Telegraph reports that he was left "basically unintelligible" after being detained and mistreated by authorities for three years ibid. Sources also report that in , a group of human rights lawyers were arrested and allegedly tortured by authorities during their detention US 25 June , 6; CHRD Mar. According to CHRD, four lawyers were attempting to visit their Falun Gong clients in a "black jail" detention facility when they were detained ibid.
Beijing has repeatedly denied accusations by human rights researchers and scholars that it forcibly takes organs from prisoners of conscience and said it stopped using organs from executed prisoners in Falun Gong is a spiritual group based around meditation that China banned 20 years ago after 10, members appeared at the central leadership compound in Beijing in silent protest.
Thousands of members have since been jailed. Chinese government regulations say human organ donation must be voluntary and without payment, said a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London.
It's a government-run system so secret it doesn't even officially exist. The goal: To wipe out Falun Gong. Some of those who escaped persecution and resettled in Australia after being granted refugee status have shared their shocking stories with news. Chemical technology student Jintao Liu, 36, was first taken to the mountain in an unknown location after police found Falun Gong books on his computer in November It was dark when he arrived. The centre was inside a mountain, a room.
They use some of the buildings and houses there. Outside people don't know [what goes on inside]. Inside the mountain, Mr Liu lived in a tiny, pitch-black cell. He was let out only to be subjected to brainwashing techniques and torture. Mr Liu was made to get up early every morning and do exercises because they stopped him from "doing Falun Gong meditation".
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