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A former Chinese police officer who spent nine years enforcing the Communist Party’s repression in Xinjiang has fled to Germany and revealed chilling details of systematic torture, arbitrary detention, and forced assimilation targeting Uyghur Muslims. His testimony, backed by internal documents, shows that Beijing’s crackdown has not ended but has simply become more hidden and normalized under current regional leadership.
Tonight on America’s Hope, we look at the gripping story of how Jennifer Zeng survived torture and persecution for her beliefs.
In undercover footage shot inside China’s notorious Masanjia labor camp, prisoners are shown hunched over work tables, with piles of wire diodes—an electronic component—on either side of a rubber mat./Working silently, intently, and urgently, they take diodes from the pile on the left, rub them on the mat, straightening them, and then place them in the pile on the right.
To this day his body is still frozen and stored in the mortuary. His family has refused to cremate the body, believing that this should be kept as evidence to show that his death was caused by the beating in Benxi Prison. They want to seek justice.
A recent refugee from China has reported on what he has learned about the persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority, telling of overstuffed prisons, abuse, torture, and the likely slaughter of prisoners of conscience through organ harvesting.
“We can often be unaware of the plight of others, but it’s experiences shared by people like Jennifer that highlight our connectedness as human beings.”
The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on March 13, highlighted China as one of the worst human rights abusers and may have signaled there will be a future investigation of forced organ harvesting in the country.
Through arduous searching and researching of Google Earth satellite images, a Chinese dissident was able to locate 19 possible prisons and 15 possible re-education camps in Kashgar Prefecture (also known as Kashi Prefecture), in Xinjiang, with a total possible capacity of a half-million people.
“I saw my father for the first time when I was 7, as he was sentenced to 8 years before I was born for producing Falun Gong … materials.”
U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) is urging President Donald Trump to raise the issue of human rights directly during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Argentina on Nov. 30.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issues a report every year on human rights and rule of law in the People’s Republic of China, although the feeling at the release of this year’s report felt different.
Jennifer related her experiences of being held in a forced-labour camp, and related these to Articles 3, 4 and 5 or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
So for me, this is yet another big event in term of what's happening in our world today. 今天的事，在我看來，又是一個重要的歷史進程。很多看得見和看不見的大事正在發生……
Summing up her feelings about the film, Zeng says, “What I can say is, as human beings, deep in our heart we all long for goodness, kindness, beautiful, and wonderful things; we all long to live at a better place, and be surrounded by kind-hearted people. That’s why many people were drawn to Falun Gong.
Zeng says Falun Gong has spread so quickly simply "because it is so good"; the positive effects on followers' physical and mental health are "so obvious". She says she wrote her book to "expose the evil" of China's labour camps and to highlight the plight of other Falun Gong inmates: "What we ask is for an end to the persecution and for the freedom to practise our own beliefs. I regard that as basic human rights -- it's not political at all."
