PureInsight | October 7, 2002
I am one of the 16 practitioners falsely accused in the Hong Kong trial. It is my honour to be able to attend this experience-sharing conference. I would like to take this opportunity to report to Master and to all of you on the incident of the false charges as well as our actions as Dafa Disciples.
Early March this year, in an outrage Jiang ordered killing of Dafa disciples without mercy, putting the city of Changchun into an emergency situation. Four Swiss practitioners' visas were unreasonably invalidated by the Chinese Consulate. Thus the reason to go to Hong Kong for a peaceful hunger strike appeal. About 8.30 a.m. in the morning on March 14 they unfurled a banner with the words "Stop Jiang's Order of Killing without Mercy, SOS Falun Dafa Practitioners" outside the People's Republic of China's Liaison Office.
The appeal activities were calm and peaceful. However, under the great pressure from the Liaison Office the police used violence to arrest us. Our peaceful appeal was stopped and nine practitioners were injured. I am one of them. My arms were bruised and my head bled. After the arrest, we refused any unreasonable demand from the police, including showing our identification. Signatures for various forms were requested by the police. The last signature was called signature for bail. Although after signing we could be released we also refused to sign. We had not broken any law, why should we be on bail? Actually it was the police that had broken the law. After we were kept for about 30 hours, at 5:00 p.m. on March 15th, the police accused us of blocking the street and causing inconvenience on the pavement and brought us to the court. Later, on March 22nd the number of charges jumped to 7. We were accused of obstructing the police in carrying out their duty because after we were arrested the police asked us to leave the police van but we refused. We were accused of assaulting police because some of us refused to be arrested when the police used force.
On June 17th the court hearing started. Two top prosecutors were working on the case. The police named 31 witnesses who are either security guards from the Liaison Office or police officers. There were no 3rd party witnesses who were inconvenienced by us during the appeal. Testimonies from the witnesses called by the prosecutors were full of lies. The judge biased in favor of the prosecuting side under the pressure from the Liaison Office and personally insulted our defending solicitor. Five of the practitioners gave witness statements in court. I was questioned by a solicitor from the prosecuting side for 3 days. What they asked was far away from the contents related to the case, such as whether Falun Gong is an organization and the financial resource of our activities, etc. All these have shown the evil nature behind this false accusation. Practitioners who gave witness statements answered all the questions in an aboveboard and noble way, which had effectively foiled the evil's malicious motives. Unfortunately, on August 15th the judge, under the pressure from the evil head, disregarded all our evidence and testimonies and handed us a guilty verdict for all the 7 charges, even though some of the witnesses' testimonies were controversial to each other.
This unfair verdict has drawn close attention from the Hong Kong public and international society. A survey by the American CNN, shows that 77% of the public think this unfair verdict is actually made under the pressure from the evil head. It has proved that the persecution of Falun Gong has been spread to Hong Kong and outside China. The Swiss practitioners' peaceful appeal outside the Liaison Office was magnificent, the Hong Kong practitioners' appeal was reasonable and legal. If such a small scale peaceful appeal which took only 7 square meters out of 140 square meters on a pavement has been charged for blocking the traffic, the basic law and "one country two systems" are both in high-sounding words only. Four or five well-trained police officers used force to arrest a female practitioner who did not hold any weapon but she tried to refuse the arrest. It is unreasonable and laughable to accuse her of assaulting police.
Through Fa study, experience sharing and searching inside, our righteous thoughts and those of other Hong Kong practitioners became stronger and stronger. We came to realise that even though we had omissions (loopholes) we would not allow the evil to take advantage of them. We followed Master's words and strengthen our righteous thoughts. We firmly believed that to validate Dafa is the most righteous and best thing. From the everyday people's point of view, everything that we did completely complied with the Basic Law in Hong Kong. Although, on the surface, what we did looked the same as what everyday people do but they do it for their own benefits while we did it for protecting Dafa and saving sentient beings. This is what Dafa Disciples during the Fa-rectification period should do.
On August 16th, nine of us went to clarify the truth to the senior police officer who asked us to give our fingerprints. One of us acted as prime speaker, another backed up and the rest of us sent forth righteous thoughts. We clarified the truth that the evil head has persecuted Falun Gong, the false accusation was the result of persecution spreading the persecution to Hong Kong, why we came to appeal in front of the Liaison Office as well as what we did was the most magnificent thing. How could we be treated as other prisoners? We also told them it was not because that we did not want to be cooperative to their work but simply because we had not committed any crimes at all. After listening, they all nodded and said they had admired us very much. We also asked them to pass truth-clarification materials to their supervisors. Something that had been considered to be impossible happened. After an officer reported to his supervisors, we were told that we did not need to have our fingerprints and pictures done. We also met one of the female officers who had given false witness statement in the courtroom. We were very clear that it is Master who is compassionate to her and let us clarify the truth to her to save her life. When she realised that we were sincerely clarifying the truth to her she listened very seriously. She showed us the way out with tears when we left.
Another tribulation was paying the fines. Sixteen practitioners were asked to pay HK$29,300. We are Dafa disciples. What we did was the most righteous. How could we to pay the fines? We made the judge, media and the whole society hear our voice when we did not pay the fines. It was definitely not because we ignored the court nor because we had financial problems. It was because our peaceful appeal had not broken any laws.
People in various professions passed on their support to us via the media. One of the biggest newspapers did not take our truth clarifying material during the trial period but later used a whole page to publish it to the whole society with a statement of apology. We have understood the importance of strengthening our righteous thoughts, truth-clarification inter-understanding and inter-pardoning/forgiving among Dafa Disciples and group improvement. We will carry on truth-clarification more systematically and follow what Master says: "Lose no time and save them, hurry up and tell them."
We also truly come to realise that all Dafa Disciples are close to each other like brothers and sisters. In whatever circumstances, we will follow what Master says, do our best in Fa-study, truth-clarification and sending forth righteous thoughts. Keeping up with the pace of Master's Fa-rectification, assist Master to rectify the Fa, and establish the great virtue of Dafa disciples.
Finally let us encourage each other with Master's "A Righteous God":
With righteous thoughts and righteous actions
He is diligent without letting up
Eliminating demons that damage the Fa
He is good to all beings
Thank you.
