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In a recent report by the National Urban League, the organization states that the 2010 “Equality Index” for black Americans stands at 71.8 percent of white Americans. This “Equality Index” shows an increase over the 2009 Equality Index which was 71.1 percent.
As CNN reports: “An equality index of less than 100 percent suggests that blacks are doing worse relative to whites, while an index greater than 100 percent suggests that blacks are doing better.”
We call for equality for all Americans.
Middle East Online reports on the views of ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo who states that the elections planned for April 11 through 13, 2010 in the Sudan are similar to a “monitoring a Hitler election.” Middle East Online also reports that ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told them ” it was the duty of the Sudanese government in the first place to arrest” President Omar al-Bashir.
Middle East Online reports:
— “The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday likened Sudanese elections scheduled for next month to ‘a Hitler election.'”
— “The comment came the day after Sudan threatened to expel foreign observers after rejecting their call to delay the country’s first multi-party polls in 24 years over concerns about the way they are being organised.”
— “President Omar al-Beshir issued the warning in an address to supporters in the eastern city of Port Sudan on Monday after the electoral commission decided to press ahead and stage the elections next month as planned.”
— “The EU’s observers on the ground are facing ‘a big challenge,’ Moreno-Ocampo told a press conference in Brussels.”
— “‘It’s like monitoring a Hitler election,’ he added.”
— “The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president on five counts of crimes against humanity, including genocide, and two of war crimes committed in Darfur — its first-ever warrant for a sitting head of state.”
— “Moreno-Ocampo said it was the duty of the Sudanese government in the first place to arrest Beshir.”
— “An ICC appeals chamber last month ordered a review of Beshir’s arrest warrant for alleged atrocities in the war-torn western Sudanese province of Darfur.”
— “It directed judges to reconsider their decision to omit genocide from the warrant issued in March last year, saying they had made ‘an error in law.'”
— “The Sudanese legislative, regional and presidential elections, is scheduled for April 11-13.”
See also R.E.A.L. postings on Sudan:
Washington DC: Sudan Rights Activists Speak Out on Darfur – Despite the Snow
ICC: Judges allow genocide charge against Sudanese leader
Sudan’s Al-Mahdi Defies ICC Charges on Bashir; UN Names New Sudan Envoy
In Pakistan, media sources report that a Christian woman was raped for refusing to convert from Christianity to Islam.
Catholic News has updated this story to state that the husband self-immolated himself in despair (and died) over the rape and torture of his wife who was falsely accused of a “crime,” and who refused religious conversion.
BosNews is reporting that Christian groups sought to protest the ” ‘refusal’ of police to detain” those allegedly responsible, and that such Christian group protests were denied because of “terrorism threats.”
Catholic News: Pakistani Christian self-immolated, not burnt by Muslims — after torture, rape of wife
Earlier reports stated:
“Pakistani Christian couple refuses to convert: husband is burnt alive, wife raped by police” by Fareed Khan“Both husband and wife worked for a wealthy Muslim businessman in Rawalpindi. Their three children, ranging from 7 and 12, were forced to watch their parents brutalised. The man has suffered 80 per cent burns, and hospital doctors do not think he will survive. Christian organisations stage protests.”
“Arshed Masih, 38, is still fighting for his life in Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, a city not far from Pakistan’s capital. With the help of police, Muslim extremists last Friday set him on fire for refusing to convert to Islam and raped his wife, local sources told AsiaNews. The incident occurred in front of a local police station.”
“In 2005, Masih and his wife began working for a wealthy Muslim businessman, he as driver and she as his wife’s maid. Recently, the two fell out of favour with their employer and his family because they insisted on remaining Christian.”
“During the incident, Masih’s wife, Martha, ‘was raped by police agents,’ local sources said. The couple’s three children, ranging in age from 7 and 12, were forced to watch their parents being brutalised.”
“‘Masih and his wife are currently being treated in hospital,’ Holy Family Hospital officials said. ‘He was listed in serious condition with about 80 per cent of his body burned,’ the BosNewsLife agency reported. With that kind of burns, hospital officials said the 38-year-old victim (pictured) is not likely to survive.”
“On Sunday, the Government of Punjab government announced an investigation into what happened. ‘The matter will be investigated and the culprits will be arrested,’ Punjab’s Minister of Law Rana Sanaullah said.”
“The Christian couple lived with their children in the servant quarters of Sheikh Mohammad Sultan’s estate in Rawalpindi. In January, religious leaders and Sultan reportedly told Arshed to convert to Islam with his whole family. After he refused, they threatened him with ‘dire consequences’.”
“Arshed offered to quit his job, but the businessman allegedly said he would ‘kill’ him if he were to leave.”
“Last week, tensions rose after Sultan reported the theft of 500,000 Pakistani rupees (almost US$ 6,000), and an official complaint (First Information Report) was filed with police.”
“Although the Christian couple was not named as suspect, the businessman offered them to drop the case if they converted to Islam or ‘else that both would not see their children again.'”
“The rest is known. Arshed Masih chose to remain loyal to his Christian faith, and last Friday he was set on fire and his wife raped by police.”
“Citing ‘terrorism threats’, the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province banned protests Monday, March 22, against the ‘refusal’ by police to detain those who burned a Christian man for not converting to Islam, while raping his wife.
“‘There is a possible threat of terrorism, so it is better to avoid any processions,’ the government told Life for All, one of the Christian advocacy groups organizing the demonstrations.”
“It wasn’t clear who had made the threats. Officials of Pakistan’s Christian minority expressed concerns however about attacks by extremists, including fighters linked to al-Qaida and other militant groups.”
“Monday’s demonstrations were to be organized in the cities of Lahore and Rawilpindi, where police and religious leaders allegedly attacked the Christian couple Friday, March 19.”
The “Westboro Baptist Church,” listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, today cheered on the shooting of a New York City police officer on the “Westboro Baptist Church” (WBC) blog “GodSmack.”
The New York Daily News reports that “A uniformed police officer was shot three times in a Bronx apartment Monday by a man furious that his elderly mother’s home health aide was rejecting his advances. After health aide Yesenia Rodriguez asked him to stop propositioning her, Santiago Urena pulled a gun and threatened her. She called police. Urena, 57, then opened fire without warning on arriving Officer Robert Salerno, 25, police said. Salerno, a three-year veteran from the 44th Precinct, was hit twice below the stomach and taken to Lincoln Hospital in serious condition, officials said.”
For defending this health care worker for an elderly woman and getting shot in the process, the “hate group” “Westboro Baptist Church” (WBC) cheered on this attack on a U.S. police officer, claiming that this was their view of God “repaying” American police officers who “have been mistreating WBC now for years.”
On March 22, 2010, the WBC hate group stated that:
“You USA cops have been mistreating WBC now for years, violating your sworn duty and allowing miscreants to access our peaceful members while they picket. God will get you for that, and here’s how we know that’s so:God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent; hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numbers 23:19. That’s right, you scoffers and mockers, God talks! And he says he will repay you TO YOUR FACE for what you do to the apple of his eye. Too bad, so sad for you!”
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) urges all Christians to reject and condemn this message of hate from the “Westboro Baptist Church.” Moreover, we urge all Christians to convey to “Christian-named” “hate groups” such as the “Westboro Baptist Church” that John 13:34 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
For all those who hate, whether their rationale is based on racial or religious supremacy, R.E.A.L. urges you to
Choose Love, Not Hate.
Love Wins.
Saudi woman Hissa Hilal uses a television poetry contest (The Million’s Poet) to criticize Muslim clerics, and was viewed as a response to “as a response to Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak, a prominent cleric in Saudi Arabia who recently issued a fatwa saying those who call for the mingling of men and women should be considered infidels, punishable by death.”
Hissal Hilal has since received death threats. The National reports that “The Saudi newspaper Al Watan reported that a member of the Ana al Muslim (I am the Muslim) website – which has previously posted videos about al Qa’eda operations – called for Ms Hilal’s death. One member was quoted by the newspaper as posting the message: ‘Can anyone tell me her address?'”
NDTV also reported that “Her poem got loud cheers from the audience and won her a place in the competition’s finals, to be aired on Wednesday.”
Hissa Hilal’s poetry reading on television has been translated to include the following verses:
“I have seen evil from the eyes of the subversive fatwas in a time when what is lawful is confused with what is not lawful;”
“When I unveil the truth, a monster appears from his hiding place; barbaric in thinking and action, angry and blind; wearing death as a dress and covering it with a belt [referring to suicide bombing];”
“He speaks from an official, powerful platform, terrorizing people and preying on everyone seeking peace; the voice of courage ran away and the truth is cornered and silent, when self-interest prevented one from speaking the truth.”
AP reports:
— “Protesting in verse: A Saudi woman criticizes Muslim clerics’ in a TV poetry contest”
— “It was a startling voice of protest at a startling venue. Covered head-to-toe in black, a Saudi woman lashed out at hard-line Muslim clerics’ harsh religious edicts in verse on live TV at a popular Arabic version of ‘American Idol.'”
— “Then last week, Hissa Hilal, only her eyes visible through her black veil, delivered a blistering poem against Muslim preachers “who sit in the position of power” but are “frightening” people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and ‘preying like a wolf’ on those seeking peace.”
— “Her poem got loud cheers from the audience and won her a place in the competition’s finals, to be aired on Wednesday.”
— “It also brought her death threats, posted on several Islamic militant Web sites.”
— “Her poem was seen as a response to Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak, a prominent cleric in Saudi Arabia who recently issued a fatwa saying those who call for the mingling of men and women should be considered infidels, punishable by death.”
— “But more broadly, it was seen as addressing any of many hard-line clerics in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the region who hold a wide influence through television programs, university positions or Web sites.”
— “‘Killing a human being is so easy for them, it is always an option,’ she told the AP.”
— AFP: “Veiled Saudi poet rises to stardom after bashing clerics”
See also:
Saudi Cleric Calls for Gender Segregation or Death: Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak
— Google: “today we stopped censoring our search services — Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn”
Google Blog’s Official Announcement to re-route Google.cn users to uncensored Google.hk
Google Stops Censoring Results, Making Block by China Likely
— Bloomberg reports:
— “Google Inc., following through on a pledge to stop censoring search results in China, began serving mainland Chinese users via its unfiltered Hong Kong site, a move that could prompt the government to block the service.”
— “The company began redirecting traffic from its China Web page, Google.cn, to Hong Kong, a part of the country that isn’t subject to censorship laws. The move, which escalates a two- month dispute with the government over censorship, was ‘totally wrong,’ the official Xinhua news agency said.”
— “By relying on Hong Kong, Google is trying to find a way to fight censorship laws while still keeping a presence in mainland China. The approach may not work for long because the government is probably going to block the site, called Google.com.hk, just as it has before with the main Google.com page, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco.”
— “‘It’s very likely that Google.com.hk will be blocked at least as aggressively as Google.com was, and more likely, probably more aggressively,’ he said.”
— “The company challenged the government of the world’s most populous country in January by threatening to allow all search results to be shown on its China Web site, including references to Tibet and the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Google has about 600 employees in the country. Google.cn included the search engine, Google News and Google Images.”
Additional Media Reports:
Google China: Search engine’s stand against censorship welcomed by campaigners
Text of Chinese official comments on Google
China says Google wrong to stop censoring: report
Google stops censoring in China
Microsoft response to Google maneuvers in China
See also:
Communist China: Google may pull out of China by April
Communist China: Google appears to drop censorship in China
ChinaAid Urges Other American and Western Companies to Join Google Against Communist Censorship
Petition Supporting Google Call to End Internet Censorship in China
On March 18 and March 19 – Haaretz reports that five Qassam rockets were launched at southern Israel, killing a Thai man on March 18.
Gaza rocket strikes south Israel for fifth time in 24 hours
Gaza Militants Fire Rocket at Israel, Killing Thai Worker
— VOA reports: “A Palestinian group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility. But Israel is holding the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza responsible and has promised retaliation”
— Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamists in the Gaza Strip
— Israel urges UN to slam attacks
On March 16, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives had near-unanimous support in House Resolution 605 calling for protection of human rights of the Falun Gong in Communist China. [The only dissenting vote was from Representative Ron Paul (who also voted against the June 2, 2009 House Resolution 489 recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre). ]
The House Resolution 605 bill was titled: “Recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 10th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong spriritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.”
The five page House Resolution 605 bill concludes that:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives —
(1) expresses sympathy to Falun Gong practitioners and their family members who have suffered persecution, intimidation, imprisonment, torture, and even death for the past decade solely because of adherence to their personal beliefs;
(2) calls upon the Government of the People’s Republic of China to immediately cease and desist from its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners, to immediately abolish the 6- 10 office, an extrajudicial security apparatus given the mandate to “eradicate” Falun Gong, and to immediately release Falun Gong practitioners, detained solely for their beliefs, from prisons and re-education through labor (RTL) camps, including those practitioners who are the relatives of United States citizens and permanent residents; and
(3) calls upon the President and Members of Congress to mark the 11th anniversary of Chinese official repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement appropriately and effectively by publicly expressing solidarity with those practitioners in China persecuted solely because of their personal beliefs, and by meeting with Falun Gong practitioners whenever and wherever possible to indicate that support for freedom of conscience remains a fundamental principle of the United States Government.
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AFP reports on U.S. Congressional Resolution calling for an end to Communist China’s persecution of Falun Gong:
— “WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives on Tuesday urged China to end its ‘persecution’ of the Falungong and rejected Beijing’s charge that the banned spiritual movement is an ‘evil cult.'”
— “In a nearly unanimous vote, the House called on China to free thousands of practitioners who are said to be imprisoned and to abolish an office tasked with fighting the Falungong.”
— “The House expressed ‘sympathy to Falungong practitioners and their family members who have suffered persecution, intimidation, imprisonment, torture and even death for the past decade solely because of adherence to their personal beliefs.'”
— “The resolution asked China to ‘immediately cease and desist from its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison and torture Falungong practitioners.'”
— “The measure expresses the sense of lawmakers but is not binding on Washington policymakers. China has bristled at previous resolutions on its human rights record, calling it interference in its internal affairs.”
— “Falungong — a movement loosely based on Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian philosophies that features spiritual exercises — enjoyed growing popularity among Chinese in the 1990s.”
— “China’s communist government banned the movement in 1999 and later branded it an ‘evil cult’ after thousands of practitioners silently converged in Beijing to air their grievances, showing their organizational might.”
— “‘Chinese authorities have devoted extensive time and resources over the past decade worldwide to distributing false propaganda claiming that Falungong is a suicidal and militant ‘evil cult’ rather than a spiritual movement which draws upon traditional Chinese concepts of meditation and exercise,’ the resolution said.”
— “Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who led the legislation, called China’s treatment of the Falungong ‘one of the most flagrant examples of systematic persecution against a particular group taking place in the world today.'”
— “‘The Beijing regime of today engages in the barbaric repression of some of its own people simply because they seek to practice a peaceful spiritual discipline,’ said the Florida congresswoman, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”
— “Ros-Lehtinen, a longtime critic of China, pointed to allegations that Beijing has harvested organs from Falungong prisoners.”
— “‘It seems incomprehensible that in the 21st century such barbaric acts could occur — a cruelty comparable to imperial Romans throwing Christian martyrs to be eaten by lions,’ she said on the House floor.”
— “‘The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase ‘Butchers of Beijing,'”‘ she said.”
— “A former Canadian cabinet member in 2006 authored a report that found that China harvested organs from live prisoners, mostly jailed Falungong members.”
— “China denounced the report as inaccurate and biased, saying the information came from Falungong supporters overseas.”
— “A total of 412 lawmakers voted for the resolution. Only one voted against — Republican Representative Ron Paul of Texas.”
— “Paul, a maverick former presidential candidate, routinely opposes measures which he considers interference in another nations’ internal affairs.”
— “Another 17 lawmakers did not vote.”
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Resources:
Full Text of House Resolution 605 Bill (English)
— Official Adobe Acrobat PDF file
— HTML version (English)
— HTML version (Chinese Simplified — Google Translation)
— HTML version (Chinese Traditional – Google Translation)
Voting Record on House Resolution 605 Bill
R.E.A.L. Postings on Falun Gong
Human Rights Day – Falun Gong Address and Video
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Shen Yun at January 2010 Washington DC Press Conference after Hong Kong Performance Canceled
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每 小時雜誌。 605 605
In the House of Representatives, US,在眾議院，美國，
March 16, 2010. 2010年3月16日。
Whereas Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992, which consists of spiritual, religious, and moral teachings for daily life,鑑於法輪功是一個傳統的中國精神紀律李洪志創立於1992年，它包括精神，宗教，道德 說教的生活，
meditation, and exercise, based upon the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance;冥想，運動，依據的原 則，堅持真理，同情和容忍;
Whereas according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, “tens of millions of Chinese citizens practiced Falun Gong in the 1990s and adherents to the spiritual movement inside of China are estimated to still number in the hundreds of thousands despite the government’s ongoing crackdown,” and other estimates published in Western press place the number of Falun Gong adherents currently in China at the tens of millions;而根據2008 年年度報告國會執行委員會的中國，“幾千萬的中國公民修煉法輪功，在90年代和信徒的精神運動在中國境內，估計數目仍然在數十萬人，儘管政府正在進行的打 擊，“和其他估計西方媒體發表的地方有多少法輪功信徒在中國，目前在幾千萬;
Whereas in 1996, Falun Gong books were banned in China and state media began a campaign criticizing Falun Gong;而在1996年，法輪功的書籍都被禁止在中國的官方媒體開始批判法輪功 的運動;
Whereas in 1999, Chinese police began disrupting Falun Gong morning exercises in public parks and began searching the homes of Falun Gong practitioners;而在1999年，中國警方開始破壞法輪功晨練的市民公園，並開始搜 索家園法輪功學員;
Whereas on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside the State Council Office of Petitions in Beijing, next to the Communist Party leadership compound, to request that arrested Falun Gong practitioners be released, the ban on publication of Falun Gong books be lifted, and that Falun Gong practitioners be allowed to resume their activities without government interference;而在1999年4月25日，1萬多名法輪功學員聚集在國務院信訪辦公室在北京，旁邊共產黨的領導化合物，請求抓 捕法輪功學員被釋放，禁止出版法輪功的書籍被取消，而法輪功學員被允許恢復他們的活動沒有政府干預;
Whereas on the same day, immediately after then-Premier Zhu Rongji met with Falun Gong representatives in his office and agreed to the release of arrested practitioners, Communist Party Chairman Jiang Zemin criticized Zhu’s actions and ordered a crackdown on Falun Gong;而在同一天結束後，當時的朱 鎔基總理會見了法輪功學員代表在他的辦公室，並同意釋放被逮捕的人士，共產黨的批評江澤民主席朱的行動，並下令鎮壓法輪功;
Whereas in June 1999, Jiang Zemin ordered the creation of the 6-10 office, an extrajudicial security apparatus, given the mandate to “eradicate” Falun Gong;而在1999年6月，江澤民下令設立的610辦公室，法外安全機構的任務是“剷除”法輪功;
Whereas in July 1999, Chinese police began arresting leading Falun Gong practitioners;而在1999年7月，中國警方開始逮捕法輪功學員的領導;
Whereas on July 22, 1999, Chinese state media began a major propaganda campaign to ban Falun Gong for “disturbing social order” and warning Chinese citizens that the practice of Falun Gong was forbidden;而在1999年7月 22日，中國官方媒體開始了大規模宣傳活動，禁止法輪功“擾亂社會秩序”，並警告中國公民的做法法輪功被禁止;
Whereas in October 1999, Party Chairman Jiang Zemin, according to western press articles, “ordered that Falun Gong be branded as a ‘cult’, and then demanded that a law be passed banning cults”;而在1999年10月，黨主席江澤民根據西 方報刊上的文章，“下令法輪功被命名為1’邪教’，並要求通過一項法律，取締邪教組織”;
Whereas Chinese authorities have devoted extensive time and resources over the past decade worldwide to distributing false propaganda claiming that Falun Gong is a suicidal and militant “evil cult” rather than a spiritual movement which draws upon traditional Chinese concepts of meditation and exercise;而中共當局投入了大量的時間和資源在過去10年全球範圍內傳播虛假宣傳，聲稱法輪功是自 殺，好戰的“邪教”，而不是一種精神運動，借鑒了傳統觀念的冥想和運動;
Whereas on October 10, 2004, the House of Representatives adopted by voice vote House Concurrent Resolution 304, which had 75 bipartisan co-sponsors, titled “Expressing the sense of Congress regarding oppression by the Government of the People’s Republic of China of Falun Gong in the United States and in China,” and that the text of this resolution noted that “the Chinese Government has also attempted to silence the Falun Gong movement and Chinese prodemocracy groups inside the United States”;而 在2004年10月10日，眾議院口頭表決通過了眾議院304號決議的同時，該75兩黨共同提案，題為“的意思表示，國會就政府壓迫的人民共和國中國對法 輪功的美國和中國“，並認為這項決議的案文指出，”中國政府還試圖壓制法輪功運動和中國民運組織在美國境內“;
Whereas, on October 18, 2005, highly respected human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng wrote a letter to Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao calling for an end to the persecution of Falun雖 然，在2005年10月18號，是非常尊重人權高智晟律師致信中共黨主席胡錦濤和國務院總理溫家寶呼籲結束迫害法輪功
Gong and Chinese authorities, in response, closed his law office and took away his law license, with Chinese security forces suspected of being directly involved in Mr. Gao’s disappearance on February 4, 2009;龔 和當局的回應，關閉他的辦公室，拿走了他的律師執照，與中國安全部隊涉嫌直接參與高先生的失踪於2009年2月4日;
Whereas Gao Zhisheng’s family has subsequently been granted political asylum in the United States;而高智晟的家人後來獲得政治庇護，美國;
Whereas the United Nations Committee Against Torture in its fourth periodic report of China, issued on December 12, 2008, stated that “The State party should immediately conduct or commission an independent investigation of the claims that some Falun Gong practitioners have been subjected to torture and used for organ transplants and take measures, as appropriate, to ensure that those responsible for such abuses are prosecuted and punished.”;鑑於聯合國禁止酷刑委員會在其第四次定期報告中國，發表08年12月12日指出， “締約國應立即進行或委託獨立調查的要求，一些法輪功學員遭受酷刑和用於器官移植，並採取措施，酌情確保那些對這些事件負有責任受到起訴和懲罰。“;
Whereas the Amnesty International 2008 annual report states that “Falun Gong practitioners were at particularly high risk of torture and other ill-treatment in detention * * * during the year 2007 over 100 Falun Gong practitioners were reported to have died in detention or shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food or medical treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment.”;鑑於大赦國際2008年年度報告指出， “法輪功學員，尤其是高風險的酷刑和其他虐待被拘留* * * 2007年期間，100多名法輪功學員被報已死亡被拘留或釋放不久結果酷刑，剝奪食物或醫療，和其他形式的虐待。“;
Whereas according to the 2008 Department of State’s Human Rights Report on China, “Some foreign observers而按照2008年國務院的人權報告對中國，“一些外國觀察家
estimated that Falun Gong adherents constituted at least half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in re-education through labor (RTL) camps, while Falun Gong sources overseas placed the number even higher.”;據 估計，法輪功信徒組成的至少一半的正式記錄的25萬囚犯中重新勞教（RTL）的營地，而海外法輪功來源放置的數量增加。“;
Whereas according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, “The (Chinese) central government intensified its nine-year campaign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer而根據2008年年度報告國會執行委 員會的中國，說：“（中國）中央政府加強了9年的迫害運動，法輪功學員1995年11月至2008年北京夏季
Olympic Games.”;奧運會。“;
Whereas Falun Gong-related websites remain among the most systematically and hermetically blocked by China’s Internet firewall; and鑑於法輪功相關的網站仍然是最系統和密封封鎖中國的互聯網防火牆;和
Whereas, according to an April 2009 New York Times report, “In the past year, as many as 8,000 (Falun Gong practitioners have been detained, according to experts on human rights, and at least 100 have died in custody”:而 根據2009年4月1紐約時報報導，“在過去的一年中，多達8000（法輪功練習者被拘留，據專家人權，至少有100人死於羈押”：
Now, therefore, be it因此，現在無論是
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—解決，那眾議院，
(1) expresses sympathy to Falun Gong practitioners and their family members who have suffered persecution, intimidation, imprisonment, torture, and even death for the past decade solely because of adherence to their personal beliefs; （1）表示同情法輪功學員和他們的家人誰遭受迫害，恐嚇，監禁，酷刑，甚至死亡在過去十年僅僅因為他們的堅持個人的信念;
(2) calls upon the Government of the People’s Republic of China to immediately cease and desist from its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners, to immediately abolish the 6- 10 office, an extrajudicial security apparatus given the mandate to “eradicate” Falun Gong, and to immediately release Falun Gong practitioners, detained solely for their beliefs, from prisons and re-education through labor (RTL) camps, including those practitioners who are the relatives of United States citizens and permanent residents; and （2）籲請政府對中華人民共和國中國立即停止，並停止其活動，迫害，恐嚇，監禁和酷刑的法輪功學員，立即取消6 – 10個辦公室，法外安全機構賦予的任務來“剷除”法輪功，並立即釋放法輪功學員，被拘留僅供自己的信念，從監獄和勞教所勞動（RTL）的營地，包括醫生誰 是親戚美國公民和永久居民;及
(3) calls upon the President and Members of Congress to mark the 11th anniversary of Chinese official repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement appropriately and effectively by publicly expressing solidarity with those practitioners in China persecuted solely because of their personal beliefs, and by meeting with Falun Gong practitioners whenever and wherever possible to indicate that support for freedom of conscience remains a fundamental principle of the United States Government. （3）呼籲總統和國會議員，以紀念11週年，中國官方鎮壓法輪功精神運動適當和有效地公開表示聲援練習者在中國受迫害，只是因為他們個人的看法，以及會見 法輪功學員隨時隨地以表明支持良心自由仍然是一個基本原則，美國政府。
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