Chinese defector describes agents' reach in Canada
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 17, 2007

China's embassy in Canada is engaged in an aggressive effort to harass
dissidents, including attempts to influence government agencies to limit
anti-communist broadcasters, a Chinese defector and religious dissident
said.

Zhang Jiyan, wife of a diplomat posted to the embassy in Ottawa, said in an
interview that Chinese agents in Canada are harassing and spying on five
groups of dissidents: the Falun Gong religious group, pro-democracy
dissidents and those opposing Chinese control over Taiwan, Tibet and
Xinjiang.

Mrs. Zhang, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong who hid her beliefs for
years, said she is seeking political asylum in Canada. Her husband has
returned to China after being recalled by the government.

She defected in early March after obtaining an internal Chinese government
document showing how the 10-member anti-dissident unit in the Chinese
Embassy is working to block New Tang Dynasty Television from obtaining a
[Canadian!] broadcast license. The channel is the Falun Gong broadcasting
arm.

"I think what the Chinese communists are doing are the worst things," Mrs.
Zhang said. "They are cracking down on Falun Gong and other dissident groups
and they are spreading a hate program. And they are spreading lies against
people who believe in truth, compassion and forbearance, and who are trying
to be good people. And they are carrying out the wrong orders from people
above" in the government.

Mrs. Zhang said the Chinese have targeted New Tang Dynasty Television
because it is "telling the truth and revealing the human rights situation
and persecution of Falun Gong in China."

While the communist government "completely controls" all press and broadcast
outlets in China, many overseas Chinese press engage in self-censorship to
avoid upsetting Beijing, Mrs. Zhang said.

"That is why I wanted to expose the Chinese Embassy using pro-communist
Chinese and Chinese foreign students" in influence operations, she said. "I
want the people in the world to know the truth."

"Right now in China there is a brutal, terrible persecution of Falun Gong,
and what this embassy group is doing is trying to extend the persecution
overseas. They are doing the worst things."

Mrs. Zhang said she came under surveillance from Chinese security agents
after she attended a Falun Gong demonstration. She said she will be
imprisoned if she returns to China.

Falun Gong is a Buddhist-oriented meditation and religious group that had
the tacit support of the Chinese government until a crackdown in 1999.

It has since engaged in political activities against China's Communist Party
and led an effort to persuade those in the party to renounce their
membership and oppose the communist government.

Mrs. Zhang said China's government has labeled the five groups of its
political enemies the "Five Poisons."

Dissidents and defectors have said the Chinese government is harvesting and
selling the body organs of Falun Gong prisoners.

In a statement during a March 30 rally, Mrs. Zhang said half of China's 1.3
billion people have "been subject to persecution in one way or another in
the so-called political movements."

http://china-e-lobby.blogspot.com/20...-17.html#links

Englishmen mind own business, not always Chinamen.

Chas.Chan wrote:

Chinese defector describes agents' reach in Canada
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 17, 2007


Well, at least we don't rent them rooms in the White House in order to
get campaign contributions.




mike

I don't understand the crazy things that goes on around the World.My pea
sized brain just can't figure it out.
cuhulin

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:24:55 GMT, m II wrote:

Chas.Chan wrote:

Chinese defector describes agents' reach in Canada
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 17, 2007


Well, at least we don't rent them rooms in the White House in order to
get campaign contributions.
Nor taking donations from Monks like algore.




mike