After China's repeated unsuccessful challenges, Dr. Shizhong Chen, founder and current President of the Conscience Foundation, who also represented the United Nations Association of San Diego, spoke to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, exposing China's psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong practitioners
Thank you Mr. President,
The United Nations Association – San Diego urges the Council to take action to end China’s continuing violation of Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom of belief.
We are particularly concerned about the Chinese government’s intensifying use of nerve-damaging chemicals to torture Falun Gong practitioners. A recent report submitted to our attention has documented over 1,000 cases of such harmful “medication.”
Volumes and volumes of reports from the Council’s own Special Rapporteurs have documented thousands of cases of severe torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese authorities. Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir stated in her annual report that, “The cruelty and brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description.”
Failing to break the will of Falun Gong practitioners with physical torture, the Chinese authorities have escalated the use of nerve-damaging chemicals to destroy their capacity to hold thoughts and conscience. This horrifying mind-killing medical torture has caused hundreds to become insane and killed many. Due to China’s block of information flow, the atrocities are feared to be more extensive.
The report has also cited over two hundred hospitals that have taken part in the administration of harmful chemicals. In addition, medical professionals also advise and assist in the torture in detention centers and labor camps. This highlights the widespread use of medical torture in China. Moreover, Special Rapporteurs Jahangir and Nowak have repeatedly requested China to explain the allegation of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. All this raises the question of the role of medical professionals in human rights violations.
In conclusion, UNA-SD appeals to international society to speak up against China’s mind-killing medication. To remain silent to such killing of the mind is a suicide of our collective conscience and humanity.
Thank you.