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A new petition by nearly 600 farmers in Hebei Province seeks the release of fellow villager and Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaodong.
The Wang Xiaodong petition indicates a level of grassroots resistance to a mass campaign unprecedented in Chinese communist history.
A top Chinese official recently visited Botou City to investigate “Brave 300” village to understand better how the public views Falun Gong.
One of the first thing communist judicial authorities did was fire his lawyers and appoint him their own.
Dr. Wen Dao calls on all Chinese people to stand with Falun Gong practitioners and demand that the Chinese government stop the persecution.
Villagers in Hebei province who signed a petition requesting the release of local Falun Gong practitioner face increased persecution.
A softer handling of incidents related to Falun Gong in China in recent weeks show that the iron-clad strength of Chinese security chief Zhou Yongkang’s police apparatus, along with his influence, is on the wane.
Amnesty International is urgently appealing for the release of two Falun Gong practitioners, Wang Xiaodong and Wang Junling, who have recently been detained by the Chinese authorities and are now at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
A prominent investigator who faced censure by Chinese security forces for looking into the shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 has voiced his support for the “Brave 300”—a group of villages that put their real names to a petition calling for the release of a local Falun Gong practitioner.
Chinese democracy activists have expressed support for the group of 300 village households in China who signed a petition to support Falun Gong.
The sister of a Falun Gong practitioner who received the support of 300 village households in a town in China’s Hebei province was kidnapped.
Chinese lawyers and the public are increasingly more willing to oppose cases of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted by authorities, after an incident in Hebei Province where 300 villagers signed their names on a public petition calling for the release of a detained fellow villager.
Inspired by the Brave 300, Chinese intellectuals stand up for Falun Gong.
The case against Wang Xiaodong, the detained Falun Gong practitioner from rural China whose arrest inspired 300 fellow villagers to petition the Communist Communist Party calling for his release, has been returned to the local Public Security Bureau after the prosecutor said it lacked evidence, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Epoch Times has learned that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection submitted a document to the 24-member Central Politburo about the petition.
Wang Xiaodong’s arrest left his 7-year-old son and elderly mother, who is in her seventies, to fend for themselves.
As Zhang Guoxiang languishes in a brainwashing facility while officials attempt to strip him of his spiritual belief, he is probably unaware that a whole village is risking all to free him.
The villagers were targeted, in what appeared to be an order coming down from Party Central to retaliate fiercely against anyone who dared to defend Falun Gong.
