GMR(Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners) is shocked to learn that on July 1st of 2009 South Korean Ministry of Justice forcefully deported Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wu back to China. To this, Global Rescue expresses our astonishment and presents our protest to South Korean Ministry of Justice !

Due to the brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioner communities in mainland China, Mr. Wu was forced to expatriate overseas. After his petition to refugee status in South Korea was denied, Mr. Wu was secretly deported on July 1st back to China. His whereabouts is now unknown.

Falun Gong practitioner Xu Jun of Tumen City in Jilin province was kidnapped on June 11th of 2008 from his sister’s house by the State Security Brigade of Helong City in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture and the local police station of West Town in Helong City to the police station of West Town for torture and interrogation. Xu Jun suffered beating every 2 hours. Around 5 o’clock in the afternoon on June 12th , Xu Jun was illegally imprisoned at county detention center of Helong City; on June 25th, he was sentenced illegally to labor camp at Ying Ma He labor camp, Jiu Tai county of Jilin province where he was enslaved to suffer extreme strenuous and long time physical labor. He was thus persecuted to death on February 17th of 2009. Since the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, Xu Jun had been illegally imprisoned many times. His wife Liu Shuyuan was also illegally sentenced to 10 years to prison because of practicing Falun Gong and she is now imprisoned in Chang Chun Women’s Prison.

When he was in teens, Xu Jun’s son had no parents to take care of him for so long, he has been hurt greatly both physically and mentally. Because of no money for school, he had to quit school when still in middle school; now the child has lost his father, once a happy and perfect family is thus destroyed. Ying Ma He labor camp, Jiu Tai county of Jilin province is the base for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, where several Falun Gong practitioners died from persecution. Starting from April of 2009 this labor camp forced Falun Gong practitioners who have already been so brutally persecuted into strenuous slave labor of pulling carts of bricks and unloading bricks, with such a backbreaking strenuousness more than an ordinary person can withstand.

Falun Gong practitioner Liu Qinghua of Siping City of Jilin province, was released for medical parole from Panjin Prison on December 31 of 2008 and passed away on February 23rd of 2009, as young as only 47 years old. On May 4th of 2007, Liu Qinghua and Meng Xiangchen were defamed when they were distributing truth materials about Falun Gong at Liu Jiazi village of Mao Jia Dian town, Chang Tu county of Liao Ning province. They were both kidnapped by the Brigade Commander Liu Jianxing of State Security Brigade of Chang Tu county police department, Police Station Director Zang Lei of Ma Jia Dian town, detained illegally at Chang Tu county detention center for five to six months, where they were both illegally interrogated many times by Liu Jianxing, suffered inhuman beatings and brutal torture. Liu Qinghua started to have symptoms of Cirrhosis, afterwards both he and Meng Xiangchen were illegally prosecuted and sentenced to three years by Chang Tu county’s Procuratorate and District Court. Meng Xiangchen was first imprisoned in Kang Ping prison of Liao Ning province, later transferred to Huo Long Cai prison of Xi Hu district of Ben Xi city in Liao Ning province. Liu Qinghua was transferred from Shen Yang prison city to Panjin prison, was illegally locked up first in the 5th prison section and then the patient section in the prison. Liu Qinghua’s illness took a downturn, and his family came to Panjin prison and the provincial prison administration bureau demanding release and medical parole for Liu, but Panjin prison wouldn’t grant medical parole on the excuse that Liu Qinghua wouldn’t write “Letter of Assurance” and that he wouldn’t give up practicing Falun Gong. When Panjin prison’s evil deed was exposed, it received denouncement and condemnation from people in various areas in China and overseas. In order to avoid responsibility for their criminal behavior, on April 17th of 2008, Panjin prison transferred Liu Qinghua from the patient section to the elder and disabled section in the prison, continuously persecuting Liu till his illness reached critical condition.

A 34 years old Falun Gong practitioner Xu Dawei of Qing Yuan county, Fu Sun city of Liao Ning province, suffered imprisonment in four prisons for over eight years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was locked up in Da Bei prison of Shen Yang, Lin Yuan No. 1 prison, Fu Sun No. 2 prison, Dong Ling prison of Shen Yang for brutal brain washing torture, wearing handcuffs and shackles and chains all year round, suffered brutal torture, hanging , forceful feeding, beaten with rubber rope, needle punches, electric baton shocks and so on. Eventually, he was tortured by Dong Ling prison of Shen Yang into a skeleton, white-haired, with purplish complexion, mentally disordered, unable to eat any food. Two weeks after he was released home, he died on February 16 of 2009, with a mass of bruises covering his whole body. Xu Dawei’s daughter just turned 8 this year. When she was born, Xu Dawei was suffering tortures in prison. The brief meeting between father and daughter turned out to be their last. The family members of Xu Dawei were all honest and plain country folks. In the face of relentless persecution of Dong Ling prison of Shen Yang and CCP, the family members of Xu have nowhere to petition their wronged verdict and from old to the young in the family, their tears have already run dry.

Persecution cases like the above are countless during the ten year persecution by CCP on Falun Gong. South Korean Ministry of Justice disregards human life, forcefully deporting Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wu back to China under such circumstances, which has violated the promise to protect human rights that a democratic and law-governing country has made and also violated the United Nations international human rights chapter. We are greatly regretful that this behavior to sell out human rights to CCP by the seduction of profit has brought a negative impact to both South Korea and the world.

According to the incomplete statistics of Global Rescue, during the brutal ten year persecution of Falun Gong by CCP, up to now at least 5690 Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death.

Global Rescue hopes that South Korean Ministry of Justice should have a correct understanding of the brutal persecution that Falun Gong practitioners suffer in China, and take positive action to protect Falun Gong practitioners and their personal interests which they should have, prevent incidents of deportation of Falun Gong practitioners from reoccurrence and work together with the international community to fulfill the obligation of a democratic and law-governing country.

GMR shall wait to see and reserve the right to make further reactions.

Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners

www.globalrescue.net

July 4th, 2009