According to recent Falun Gong propaganda, 130 Falun
Gong practitioners at the Masanjia Rehabilitation Center in
China's Liaoning Province have been on hunger strike for
more than 20 days in protest of the so-called extension of
their terms.
Our inquiry reveals that not only
has there been no hunger strike at the Masanjia Center, the
charge that the authorities illegally extended the terms of
130 Falun Gong inmates there, which supposedly caused the
alleged hunger strike, was completely false.
At Masanjia, as well as China's other
rehabilitation centers set up to correct breakers of minor
criminal offenses with terms ranging from 1 to 3 years,
inmates' legitimate rights and interests are fully
guaranteed and meticulously protected. As a rule, most
inmates go home upon or before the expiration of their
terms. Only a handful of inmates, due to exceptionally bad
behavior such as deliberate sabotage, receive extended terms
in accordance with law.
Falun Gong is a
notorious doomsday cult that is responsible for more than
1600 deaths in China. Though the Chinese people have long
since repudiated it, this cult is still operating in several
countries with impunity, smearing China and making troubles
to relations between China and these countries. People
should watch out lest they be taken in by its malicious
rumors and gimmicks designed to buy public sympathy on the
cheap.
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