[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 62 (Monday, April 27, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E985]
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REMEMBERING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY'S (CCP) 
                     PERSECUTION OF THE FALUN GONG

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                       HON. THADDEUS G. McCOTTER

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 27, 2009

  Mr. McCOTTER. Madam Speaker, sadly, 2009 marks the tenth year of the 
Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of the Falun Gong. After a 
10,000 person silent, peaceful protest in front of CCP offices in 
Beijing, then-General Secretary Jiang Zemin designated the Falun Gong 
an ``evil cult'' and in July 1999, began a brutal crackdown on Falun 
Gong practitioners. Since then, communist Chinese authorities have 
imprisoned roughly 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners and brutally killed 
more than 3,000. Following death, communist Chinese authorities have 
routinely harvested organs from executed Falun Gong prisoners.
  Recently, on February 1, 2009, communist Chinese authorities arrested 
61-year-old Zhu Lijin from Tianjin for distributing leaflets about the 
Falun Gong. On February 16, 2009, Ms. Lijin's family was notified she 
was sentenced to one year and three months imprisonment in Banqiao 
Women's ``Re-education Through Labor'' camp. While the imprisonment of 
a 61-year-old woman demonstrates the communist Chinese regime's 
paranoia, her arrest remains a grave injustice and Ms. Lijin must be 
immediately set free.

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