(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Aiying, 51, was a retired employee of the Xi'an City Department Store. She gave her neighbor's child a truth-clarifying flier, and was reported to the police by her neighbor. On June 25, 2008, police officers from the Xiwang Police Station in Baqiao District arrested and interrogated her at the police station, and then took her home and ransacked it. At around 3:00 p.m., while her home was being ransacked, and under the custody of many officers, she fell from the fourth floor of her rental apartment at the Car Parts Factory family housing, and died at around 7:00 p.m. the same day. The police said she committed suicide by jumping from the building. They concealed all information, and notified her long separated husband Li, and coerced him with threats into accepting the story that she committed suicide. Her husband signed an agreement to cremate her body in far away Lintong City, instead of Xi'an City, which is close by.

Ms. Liu was being closely watched by many officers, so how could she jump from the building? The cause of her death was very suspicious. The Chinese Communist Party has been using suicide to cover up its murderous crimes of Falun Gong practitioners for a long time. The Falun Gong principles clearly state that practitioners should not kill or commit suicide. For the past nine years, since the persecution started in July 1999, under Jiang's secret order to kill Falun Gong practitioners, the party officers have been murdering Falun Gong practitioners at will, and then telling the public it was suicide, and taking no responsibility for it. During the past nine years, many Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in the persecution, and the deaths have been systematically recorded as suicides. So did Ms. Liu die because she jumped off the building, or was she murdered?

Ms. Liu had cultivated Falun Dafa for ten years. She knew very well that a practitioner should not commit suicide, and that it was against the principles she followed. During the past ten years, Ms. Liu was subjected to many inhuman tortures, but never had one thought of suicide. On July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested and cruelly beaten by officers in Beijing. She endured hardships that most people would not be able to endure. It is very unlikely that she committed suicide. After she was taken back to the Xi'an City, Zhongshanmen Police Station, the administrators sent her to a forced labor camp where she endured numerous brutal mistreatments until her sentence ended. Many times she carried bags of truth-clarification materials to distribute to people, and she was arrested and brutally beaten. Why would she commit suicide now after being arrested for giving one child a flier?

In October 2007, Ms. Liu was arrested by officers from the High-Tech Developing Zone Police Department, and after being brutally beaten, she was taken to Chang'an Worker's Sanatorium, where she was tortured by being tied to a chair, and deprived of food and water for several days. During her forced labor term, her husband had an affair, causing the couple to separate, and Ms. Liu left home to live a life with no income. She was under intense pressure. So why, after remaining steadfast despite all of the adversity, would she choose a suicidal path while validating Falun Dafa?

What really happened between 3:00 p.m. when Ms. Liu fell from the building to her death around 7:00 p.m? Why wasn't she taken to the hospital? Did they kill her to silence her? Why didn't Ms. Liu's husband and other family members insist on having an autopsy to find out exactly how she died, instead of signing an agreement to let police cremate her body in far away Lintong City so quickly? Were they rushed so they could destroy the evidence? It is not known what kind of deceit and threats the police subjected her family to, and why the information was concealed so soon.

There is no wall which can totally block the wind. The Fa is vast and nothing can escape the sifting. We believe the police and people involved who still have a conscience will reveal more facts of Ms. Liu's death, and that those responsible will be exposed for their crimes.

Relevant people:

Xiwang Police Station in Baqiao District Department, Xi'an City: 86-29-83523160
Director Niu Tiegang (male), Deputy Director Zhu Luwen (male), CCP Director Wang Jianhua (male), officer Bai Huayong (male), Liu Gang (male)
Xiwang Community Administration: 86-29-83519684

Posting date: 7/23/2008
Original article date: 7/22/2008
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
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By a practitioner from Thailand

On July 12th, Falun Gong practitioners from Bangkok attended a health fair organised by the Bangkok City Government and a health foundation in Lumpini Park.

Practitioners demonstrated the exercises and briefly introduced Falun Gong to the public. Many people were interested in learning it and asked for more materials about Falun Gong. Members from other exercise groups also asked practitioners for exercise music CDs and instruction DVDs.


Demonstrating the exercises


People asked for Falun Gong materials

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Previously unpublished conversation by Eutelsat employee confirms move was politically motivated

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Reporters Without Borders calls on Giuliano Berretta, the CEO of the European satellite company Eutelsat, to quickly reverse its decision to suspend independent Chinese-language broadcaster NTDTV’s use of Eutelsat’s W5 satellite to broadcast to Asia.

Eutelsat claims it was forced to suspend NTDTV (New Tang Dynasty Television) on 16 June because of a technical problem but a recorded conversation with an employee of Eutelsat show it was a premeditated, politically-motivated decision violating the free flow of information and the convention under which Eutelsat operates.

“The real reason for the decision to suppress NTDTV exposes how Eutelsat operates in China,” the press freedom organisation said. “The company’s credibility is at stake and we urge its shareholders to intervene as quickly as possible so that NTDTV can resume broadcasting on this satellite. If that is not done, none of the TV companies that are Eutelsat clients will ever be sure they could not also be arbitrarily disconnected one day because of their content.”

Reporters Without Borders added: “NTDTV’s broadcasts irked the Chinese government because, thanks to this satellite, they could be freely received in tens of millions of Chinese homes. Their suspension just a few weeks ahead of the Olympic Games looks like a favour provided by Eutelsat with the aim of obtaining new deals. Eutelsat tried to drop NTDTV once before, in 2005, but an international campaign forced it to sign a new long term contract.”

In a recorded conversation on 23 June with an interlocutor the employee thought was a Chinese Propaganda Department official, a Eutelsat representative in Beijing said:

“It was our company’s CEO in France who decided to stop NTDTV’s signal. (...)We could have turned off any of the transponders. (...) It was because we got repeated complaints and reminder from the Chinese government. (...) Two years ago, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television kept saying the same thing over and over: ‘Stop that TV station before we begin to talk.’

Reporters Without Borders is posting a transcript of this conversation on its website (www.rsf.org) and it has an audio recording that is available to the media.

A New York-based TV station with links to the Falun Gong spiritual movement, NTDTV began broadcasting in Chinese four years ago. Its programmes are very different from the content on China’s state TV stations. There is a great deal of coverage of human rights issues, including the repression in Tibet and of religious groups such as Falungong and the underground Christian churches.

The day after it stopped transmitting NTDTV, Eutelsat issued a statement saying the W5 satellite has suffered serious technical problems that had forced the company to reduce the number of transponders and stop broadcasting several TV stations.

Eutelsat and Thales, the French company that made the satellite, are doing more and more business in China. It was Thales that manufactured Zhongxing-9, the satellite that was put in orbit last month to guarantee good coverage of the Olympic Games. Eutelsat has signed a contract with China to use its Long March rocket to launch Eutelsat satellites. The Wall Street Journal wrote in April: “Eutelsat for years has been trying to find a way to penetrate the Chinese market, and launch contracts are widely seen as one way to help reach that goal.”

As a company headquartered in France, Eutelsat is nonetheless obliged to respect the principles of equality of access, pluralism and non-discrimination enshrined in article 3 of a convention governing the operations of satellite companies.

Ever since NTDTV was launched in February 2002, the Chinese government has been trying to get its broadcasts suppressed by pressuring satellite operators and governments.

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(Clearwisdom.net) The signal for New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), an independent Chinese media, went down in China on June 17 due to "technical difficulties" with the W5 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications. Hong Kaili, the spokesperson for NTDTV, said on June 28 that Eutelsat has yet to give NTDTV any formal explanation.


Hong Kaili, NTDTV spokesperson, calls for the restoration of the broadcast.

Ms. Hong said that NTDTV has already contacted Eutelsat. According to professionals in the field, Eutelsat has the ability to restore NTDTV broadcasts to Asia. Eutelsat stopped broadcasting NTDTV due to threats from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The CCP promised to improve the human rights situation in China before the Olympics, Ms. Hong pointed out, but instead, people in China have less and less freedom. Recently the CCP directed the assaults against Falun Gong in Flushing, NY. Hong warned that Eutelsat will regret its collaboration with the CCP and that it is immoral to stop the broadcasts, which are welcomed by the Chinese people.

She said that NTDTV is the only free Chinese TV that can be seen in China. But since June 17, NTDTV has received many phone calls and emails from China, complaining they could no longer get NTDTV. She said that the Chinese audience is eager to see the restoration of the program, so NTDTV contacted Eutelsat, asking when it would happen, but Eutelsat did not give NTDTV any formal explanation or even a clear answer.

"Eutelsat has the ability to restore the signal quickly," she stated. She guessed that Eutelsat was using "malfunctioning of the power supply" as an excuse to shut down the broadcasting of NTDTV seven weeks before the Beijing Olympics.

According to their investigation, she said, the reason is that Giuliano Berretta, the president of Eutelsat, tried to do business with the CCP, and the CCP exerts pressure on Eutelsat.

On June 16, Alcatel, the producer of Eutelsat's satellites, signed a one-billion-dollar contract with the CCP. A few hours later, the broadcasting of NTDTV in Asia was stopped.

In 2005, Eutelsat tried to cancel its broadcast contract with NTDTV. According to the International Federation of Journalists, the CCP asked Eutelsat to cancel the contract. In exchange, the CCP would sign a contract with Eutelsat for the right to broadcast the Olympics. The Wall Street Journal reported that Eutelsat tried to cancel the contract with NTDTV in 2005 for large profits from the CCP.

American and European politicians and people with a sense of justice strongly condemned Eutelsat and exerted so much pressure that Eutelsat renewed the contract with NTDTV in 2005.

Ms. Hong said that Eutelsat must obey certain rules and its own policies, which require equality, nondiscrimination, and respect for multiculturalism. From both a moral and a legal viewpoint, Eutelsat should restore the signal quickly. She said Eutelsat should support the freedom of information and not collaborate with the CCP, the biggest tyrant in the world.

NTDTV is also calling upon people with a sense of justice to help restore the broadcasting.

Contact information for Eutelsat:

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Eutelsat Communications
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Telephone: +33 (0) 1 53 98 47 47

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Director of Corporate Communications
Telephone: +33 (0) 1 53 98 38 88
Fax: + 33 (0) 1 53 98 37 88
voconnor@Eutelsat.fr

Frederique Gautier
Coporate Communications Manager
Telephone: +33 (0) 1 53 98 38 88
Fax: + 33 (0) 1 53 98 37 88
fgautier@Eutelsat.fr

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