Dear President Trump:
I send my most sincere greetings to you!
I am a former official in both China’s government and the Communist Party, a survivor of the Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, and the first Falun Gong practitioner expelled from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. I would like to tell you about my experiences under China’s criminal justice system before I escaped to the United States in 2015, in hopes that this information will be useful for your upcoming summit with China’s chairman, Xi Jinping.
I also wish to tell you three requests that I have for Xi and hope that, using your understanding and wisdom, you will be able to relay these requests to him.
I have been persecuted for 17 years due to my belief in Falun Gong. During my five years in prison, there was a lot of deception among officers who dealt with my case: The judicial investigator deceived the pretrial police; the pretrial police deceived the prosecutor; the prosecutor deceived the initial trial judge; the initial trial judge deceived the final trial judge; the final trial judge deceived the prison police officer; and finally all of these people conspired to deceive Hu Jintao (the head of CCP at that time), as well as the people of China and the world. It was a complete scam created purposely by the CCP via their blackbox-style legal system.
Before I was detained, I was a writer working for Wei Jianxing, who was a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee and the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. To improve my health, I started practicing Falun Gong, a popular qigong practice, on May 3, 1995. Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) was first publicly taught by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun City, China, on May 13, 1992.
Due to the appeal of Falun Gong’s tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, and the practice’s effectiveness in improving the mind and body through its five sets of meditative exercises, it spread by word of mouth from Changchun to Beijing, then across China, and from China to all over the world. By 1999, there were already more than 100 million Falun Gong practitioners.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin, the head of the CCP at the time, made the decision to suppress Falun Gong by using the entire machinery of the state. He had seen more and more people start practicing Falun Gong and felt Falun Gong might become a threat to his power.
On the same day, I was arrested and held in solitary confinement because I previously had written a letter to Jiang titled “Falun Dafa Brings Only Benefits and No Harm to the Country and the People” and had sent it to him by registered mail.
