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ith a stool leaving him with the injuries to his head eye and shoulder he claims the assault was politically motivated groups including the democratic party and the league of social democrats have urged police to take action and curb political violence lee cheuk yan chairman of the hong kong alliance in support of patriotic democratic movements in china criticised police saying they were slow to act on the case and had been derelict in their duty chan said that on the night of the attack he was going to an event in mong kok to mark a year since the death of mainland dissident li wangyang when he got to sai yeung choi street at 6pm he saw people surrounding a falun gong booth he argued with them and tried to make them lower their placards he was headed for the ladies market when he was set upon i was smacked in the head with a stool there was no warning he said adding that it would not deter him from taking part in future pro democracy activities an association member would say only that the matter should be handled by the police a police spokesman said they tried unsuccessfully to find the attackers on the day it happened no arrests have been made posted by makina at 1 21 pm no comments labels attack falun gong hong kong behind cry for help from china labor camp originally published tuesday june 11 2013 at 8 50 pm by andrew jacobs the new york times masanjia china the cry for help a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of halloween decorations sold at kmart traveled 5 000 miles from china into the hands of a mother of two in oregon a part of a letter found in a package of halloween decorations scrawling in wobbly english on a sheet of onionskin paper the writer said he was imprisoned at a labor camp in this northeastern chinese town where he said inmates toiled seven days a week their 15 hour days haunted by sadistic guards sir if you occasionally buy this product please kindly resend this letter to the world human right organization said the note which was tucked between two ersatz tombstones and fell out when the woman julie keith opened the box in her living room last october thousands people here who are under the persicution of the chinese communist party government will thank and remember you forever the letter drew international news media coverage and widespread attention to china s opaque system of re education through labor a collection of penal colonies where petty criminals religious offenders and critics of the government can be given up to four year sentences by the police without trial but the letter writer remained a mystery the subject of speculation over whether he or she was a real inmate or a creative activist simply trying to draw attention to the issue last month though during an interview to discuss china s labor camps a 47 year old former inmate at the masanjia camp said he was the letter s author the man a beijing resident and adherent of falun gong the outlawed spiritual practice said it was one of 20 such letters he secretly wrote over the course of two years he then stashed them inside products whose english language packaging he said made it likely they were destined for the west for a long time i would fantasize about some of the letters being discovered overseas but over time i just gave up hope and forgot about them said the man who asked that only his last name zhang be published for fear of reprisal he knew well the practices of the camp in question which was corroborated by other inmates and he spoke as other inmates did of their work preparing mock tombstones his handwriting and modest knowledge of english matched those of the letter although it was impossible to know for sure whether there were perhaps other letter writers one of whose messages might have reached oregon if mr zhang s account truly explains the letter s origin the feat represents one of the more successful campaigns by a follower of the falun gong movement which is known for its high profile attempts to embarrass the chinese government after being labeled a cult and outlawed in 1999 emboldened by an unusually open public debate in china that has broken out here in recent months over the future of re education through labor scores of former inmates have come forward to tell their stories in interviews with more than a dozen people who were imprisoned at masanjia and other camps around the country they described a catalog of horrific abuse including frequent beatings days of sleep deprivation and prisoners chained up in painful positions for weeks on end several former inmates recounted the death of a fellow inmate either from suicide or an illness that went untreated by prison officials sometimes the guards would drag me around by my hair or apply electric batons to my skin for so long the smell of burning flesh would fill the room said chen shenchun 55 who was given a two year sentence for refusing to give up a petition campaign aimed at recovering unpaid wages from her accounting job at a state owned factory according to former inmates roughly half of masanjia s population is made up of falun gong practitioners or members of underground churches with the rest a smattering of prostitutes drug addicts and petitioners whose efforts to seek redress for perceived injustices had become an embarrassment for their hometown officials all agreed that the worst abuse was directed at falun gong members who refused to renounce their faith in addition to the electric shocks they said guards would tie their limbs to four beds and gradually kick the beds farther apart some inmates would be left that way for days unfed and lying in their own excrement i still can t forget the pleas and howling said liu hua 51 a petitioner who was imprisoned at masanjia on three separate occasions that place is a living hell even if they found the work exhausting many inmates described the time spent in masanjia s workshops as a respite from mistreatment or the hours of re education classes that often entailed an endless recitation of camp rules or the singing of patriotic songs while standing in the broiling sun much of the work involved producing clothing for the domestic market or uniforms for the people s armed police but inmates say they also assembled christmas wreaths bound for south korea coat linings stuffed with duck feathers that were labeled made in italy and silk flowers that guards insisted would be sold in the united states whenever we were making goods for export they would say you better take extra care with these said jia yahui 44 a former inmate who now lives in new york corinna barbara francis china researcher at amnesty international said that given the abundant money making opportunities abolishing or significantly reforming the system would prove daunting in addition to the profits earned from the inmate labor prison employees often solicit bribes for early release or for better treatment from the families of those incarcerated given the serious money being made in these places the economic incentive to keep the system going is really powerful she said during labor shortages inmates say masanjia officials simply buy small time offenders from other cities on a sliding scale that begins at 800 renminbi or about 130 for six months of labor they include people like zhang ling a 25 year old from the eastern coastal city of dalian who said she was among a group of 50 young women rounded up by the police last may during a crackdown on illegal pyramid sales schemes and then sold to masanjia while there she sewed buttons on military uniforms but was released 10 months early after a brother paid for her release masanjia officials did not respond to faxes and phone calls requesting an interview approached one recent afternoon a half dozen guards on a cigarette break outside the women s work camp refused to answer any questions one guard however made a point of correcting the way a question was phrased there are no prisoners here she said sternly they are all students sears holdings the owner of kmart declined to make an executive available for an interview but in a brief statement a company spokesman howard riefs said an internal investigation prompted by the discovery of the letter uncovered no violations of company rules that bar the use of forced labor he declined to provide the name of the chinese factory that produced the item a 29 99 set of halloween decorations called totally ghoul that include plastic spiders synthetic cobwebs and a bloody cloth although he was released from masanjia in 2010 mr zhang the man who said he wrote the letter has vivid memories of producing the plastic foam headstones which were made to look old by painting them with a sponge it was an especially difficult task he said if the results were not to the liking of the guards they would make us do them again he estimated that inmates produced at least 1 000 headstones during the year he worked on them his letter writing subterfuge was complicated and risky barred from having pens and paper mr zhang said he stole a set from a desk one day while cleaning a prison office he worked while his cellmates slept he said taking care not to wake those inmates often drug addicts or convicted thieves whose job it was to keep the others in line he would roll up the letter and hide it inside the hollow steel bars of his bunk bed he said there it would remain sometimes for weeks until a product designated for export was ready for packing too early and it could fall out too late and there would be no way to get it inside the box said mr zhang a technology professional who studied english in college his account of life in the camp matched those of other inmates who said they produced the same halloween themed items last december ms keith the woman who bought the product in 2011 but did not open it until the following year sent the letter she found to the federal immigration and customs enforcement agency which said it would look into the matter an agency spokesman citing protocol said that he could not confirm whether an investigation was under way but that such cases generally took a long time to pursue for ms keith a manager at goodwill industries the experience has been sobering she said she previously knew little about china except that most of the household goods she bought were made there when that note popped out and my daughter picked it up i was skeptical that it was real she said but then i googled masanjia and realized whoa this is not a good place posted by makina at 1 17 pm no comments labels china falun gong halloween kmart labor camps masanjia oregon re education monday june 03 2013 chinese official makes conflicting statements about forced organ harvesting in china dafoh washington june 3 2013 prnewswire usnewswire facing international pressure about the unethical harvesting of organs from convicted prisoners china s top health care official apparently can t make up his mind about the status of the brutal and inhumane practice in a may 17 news conference called to trumpet an end of the policy dr huang jiefu promised that organ harvesting from executed criminals would be phased out within two years and then defended the practice three days later in an interview with the australian abc news agency leaving it uncertain if china will phase out the practice under pressure from the international community china has recently vowed to phase out its practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners at a may 17 press conference in beijing dr huang jiefu former vice minister of health described china s current organ procurement practice as profit driven unethical and violating human rights medical doctors lawyers human rights watchdogs and parliamentarians worldwide have demanded an immediate end to forced organ harvesting in china three days later in an interview with australian abc news on may 20 huang took a completely different approach instead of condemning the practice as he did on may 17 he defended the more than two decades old practice he suggested that the use of the prisoners organs provides an opportunity for redemption saying before he dies he forms a conscience he needs to do something to repay society so why you object ethical organ donation is based on altruistic choice and voluntary informed consent in 2006 the transplantation society stated because of the restrictions in liberty in a prison environment it is unlikely that prisoners are truly free to make independent decisions and thus an autonomous informed consent for donation cannot be obtained thus the transplantation society is opposed to the recovery of organs and tissues from executed prisoners and from any other individual where an autonomous consent for the procurement is lacking huang disclosed in his may 20 interview that he has taken organs from executed prisoners for his own surgical transplant practice according to huang s statement from may 17 many of the liver transplants that he performed would be considered unethical and a violation of human rights the recent statements of huang come on the heels of an investigation at the prestigious university of sydney australia concerning huang s known conduct in transplant medicine a coalition of academics doctors and lawyers lead by professor maria fiatarone singh faculty of health sciences and faculty of medicine are requesting that the university revoke the honorary professor titles given to huang in 2008 and 2011 huang s transplant practice conflicts with the university s code of conduct it is incomprehensible why the university s leadership continues to defend huang s honorary professor title even after he openly admitted to having violated ethical standards as former vice minister of health huang has overseen china s organ harvesting system for over a decade and is responsible for the unethical organ harvesting practice abc has described huang as saying the world needs to be understanding and give china a chance the distorted call for a chance is like a slap in the face of the tens of thousands of innocent lives who did not have a slightest chance and were killed for their organs without admitting that the ongoing practice of harvesting organs from prisoners and unlawfully detained prisoners of conscience is unethical and wrong we are concerned that the current practice will continue without transparency and traceability as demanded by the who we are concerned that convicted prisoners and prisoners of conscience mostly detained falun gong practitioners will continue to be subject to forced organ harvesting in china doctors against forced organ harvesting posted by makina at 6 02 pm no comments labels abc news australia china doctors against forced organ harvesting falun gong huang jiefu maria fiatarone singh organ harvesting transplantation society university of sydney saturday june 01 2013 state organs transplant abuse in china book launch victoria bc june 04 state organs transplant abuse in 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