Lou Qinjian appointed acting governor of Shaanxi

Lou Qinjian appointed acting governor of Shaanxi
Crackdown on Chinese doomsday cult accused of using violence
Focus Media agrees to buyout by Carlyle-led consortium
New South Korean administration may slow FTA talks with China
US pledges to relax controls on hi-tech exports to China
No police story: Jackie Chan clarifies guns and gangsters claim
Son of High-Level Chinese Official Pursues Those Who Tortured Him
China Weekly 17th of December to the 21st of December
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12 Chinese awarded 2012 Herman/Hammett Grants
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Lou Qinjian appointed acting governor of Shaanxi

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 04:27 AM PST

The provincial legislature in northwest China's Shaanxi province on Friday appointed Lou Qinjian as acting governor. The 33th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th Shaanxi Provincial People's...

Crackdown on Chinese doomsday cult accused of using violence

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 04:19 AM PST

The doomsday cult Church of Almighty God is a well-organized group in China, according to the Chinese-language Beijing News. Hundreds of members of the sect have been arrested in the last week for spr...

Focus Media agrees to buyout by Carlyle-led consortium

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 04:15 AM PST

Chinese advertising agency Focus Media has agreed to be bought by a consortium led by the Carlyle Group in a deal set to become the largest leveraged buyout in the country. According to an announce...

New South Korean administration may slow FTA talks with China

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 04:07 AM PST

A Taiwanese diplomat stationed in Seoul has said China and South Korea may take three to five years to conclude talks on a free trade agreement. He added that although Taiwan intends to negotiate such...

US pledges to relax controls on hi-tech exports to China

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:51 AM PST

The 23rd US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, which concluded a few days ago in Washington DC saw high-ranking commerce and trade talks between the two countries being conducted for the fi...

No police story: Jackie Chan clarifies guns and gangsters claim

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:39 AM PST

In a recent interview with Guangzhou's Southern People Weekly, Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan said that he once fought a group of gangsters with three guns and six grenades, a revelation treated as...

Son of High-Level Chinese Official Pursues Those Who Tortured Him

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:20 AM PST

Zhu Qunqun is a son of high ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who suffered extreme torture for 15 days and nights in 2009 for his practice of Falun Gong, a Chinese traditional spiritual discipline.

The 40-year-old resident Zhu Qunqun and his brother from Yangcheng City of Jiangsu Province started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. His uncle, Zhu Bin, is currently the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC), and a senior cadre in Yangcheng.

In the afternoon of Oct. 15, some men from the police department broke into Zhu's rented office and took him away without a search warrant. His business partners were also called in for questioning, without any legal protection or due process.

After arriving to a police station, Zhu was then transferred to another station where he was immediately tied to a torture device called the Tiger Bench, used to force victims to sit up straight on the bench with hands tied behind their backs and knees tied down. Keeping the victim on the bench position for an extended period of time causes immense agony and often permanent injuries to the knees and legs.

Zhu was coerced to admit that he had printed and distributed materials about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, in front of a dozen interrogation officers.

The next day he was sent to a brainwashing center, called "Healthy Hotel", because he has been uncooperative with the officers. This lead to more torture and interrogation.

Surprisingly, Zhu found one of the police officers, Cai Bin, rostered on the first shift for torturing him, was his old high school classmate, which he hadn't met for nearly two decades.

Consequentially, over the next few days, Cai Bin has been the only officer who didn't torture Zhu, due to friendship or conscience. Officer Cai even allowed his old classmate Zhu to sleep and take showers during his shift.

Cai has also asked his other colleagues to "show mercy" on Zhu but was transferred away five days later, after being suspected to be a traitor by other agents. He was later investigated for his conduct when Zhu was put into the brainwashing center.

The torture and interrogation of Zhu intensified after Cai's departure from the interrogation team. Dozens of police and staff from the 610 Office arrived and began a round-the-clock effort to extract a forced confession from Zhu. "I felt every second was immensely long, it was burning me by the second," Zhu wrote in an article published in the Chinese edition of The Epoch times.

For the next 15 days and nights, Zhu lost consciousness five times from the abuse.

Zhu wrote in his article, "Li Shouming, one of the interrogation officers would often wake me up abruptly by pouring glasses of cold water on my head. Sometimes, they would wake me up with a slap in the face or by pounding the table. Whenever I fell asleep for two or three seconds, they would use such treatment, which seriously ruined me physically. When I was transferred to Fang Qiang labor camp, I was woken up 20 times within a six-hour sleep."

Other officers also avoided torturing Zhu, with some even helping him.

The long 15 days of unconsciousness and abuse came to an end, with Zhu persevering in his belief, admitting nothing, and still refusing to sign a paper repenting his practice of Falun Gong.

Being a son of a high ranking CCP government official, Zhu has many high ranking friends within the system who were angered by his experience. Many of them later helped him track down those who persecuted him.

"We have collected some evidence on Yangcheng City's Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted and the facts are terrifying. Over the last few years, they have been tortured into forced confession and repeatedly suffered poisoning at the same time. We know for a fact that the chief of police wouldn't dare to issue such commands, and the same goes for the Secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (PLAC)!" Zhu said.

"Many Falun Gong practitioners have yet to recover from the poisoning, even today. Isn't this inhuman persecution targeted at Falun Gong?" Zhu wrote in his article.

Recently, a family relative has written an apology letter on behalf of one of the guilty officials, pleading for mercy, which has been published by the Epoch Times.

Zhu and his brother, who was also persecuted, have been demanding the 610 Office and the local Political and Legislative Affairs Committee to hand over the surveillance recordings of their interrogations.

After learning of these demands, the departments involved in the persecution were frightened, according to a local Falun Gong practitioner who was told so by police.

According to Minghui, a main Falun Gong website, the local 610 officials tried negotiating with the brothers, but the two have remained unmoved in their demands.

Editor's Note: When Chongqing's former top cop, Wang Lijun, fled for his life to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu on Feb. 6, he set in motion a political storm that has not subsided. The battle behind the scenes turns on what stance officials take toward the persecution of Falun Gong. The faction with bloody hands—the officials former CCP head Jiang Zemin promoted in order to carry out the persecution—is seeking to avoid accountability for their crimes and to continue the campaign. Other officials are refusing to participate in the persecution any longer. Events present a clear choice to the officials and citizens of China, as well as people around the world: either support or oppose the persecution of Falun Gong. History will record the choice each person makes.

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China Weekly 17th of December to the 21st of December

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:50 PM PST

China: Report Links Former Police Chief to Murder

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 09:00 PM PST

A Chinese news organization reported that Wang Lijun, a former police chief in Chongqing, played a direct role in organizing the murder of Neil Heywood, a British businessman.

BYD to set up electric bus plant in California

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 02:35 AM PST

Electric car and battery maker BYD will set up its first fully owned overseas plant to make electric buses in California in 2013, reports our sister newspaper the China Times. The car manufacturer...

12 Chinese awarded 2012 Herman/Hammett Grants

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:10 PM PST

New York, US – According to Human Rights Watch, 41 writers from 19 countries awarded with 2012 Herman/Hammett Grants for their dedication of free press and their courage to face persecution, including 12 Chinese citizens.

Wang Lihong, a full-time human rights defender after she retired in 2008;

Qi Chonghuai, known as the "Anti-corruption Reporter", Qi exposed corruptions in government of Shandong Province;

Huang Qi, the founder of China's first domestic human rights website and a long time human rights activist;

He Depu, headed the China Democratic Party (CDP) from 1999 to 2002, but later jailed for "inciting subversion of state power";

Huuchinhuu Govruud, a Mongolian ethic, began writing articles as a blogger and criticized government policies on Mongolians;

Memtjan Abdulla, ex-reporter and editor for Uyghur service of China National Radio;

Gulmire Imin, Uyghur reporter at the Uyghur-language website Salkin;

Sun Wenguang, a retired professor at Shandong University, who has published hundreds of articles criticizing Chinese government on topics like SARS epidemic, restrictions on media, official corruptions and Wenchuan earthquake;

There are also four Tibetan writers awarded the Grant but remained anonymous. They are all jailed for writing protests in Tibet.

The Herman/Hammett Grant was established to help writers who suffered from persecution from government. The award was issued by Human Rights Watch, a New York based human rights organization. There are over 700 writers from 92 countries received the Herman/Hammett Grant since 1989. FMN

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