The “China Human Rights Exhibit” organized by the Information Office of the State Council opened on November 17 at the Nationality Cultural Palace Museum in Beijing. The organizer promised it would be “open to the public free of charge.” However, many appealers and residents who went to visit were refused entrance. Outside the exhibition, uniformed police and police in plain clothes swarmed the place and police vehicles shuttled back and forth.
An appealer, Ms. Guo from Beijing, said that on November 17, she came to the exhibit from a faraway suburb. She was kicked out for trying to submit a complaint. She told the reporter that she was a witness of how the Chinese regime violates human rights. The bridge of her nose bone was broken by a prison guard when she was illegally sentenced to eight months in prison by the regime, and she was beaten to be doubly incontinent. She still suffers from the consequences today, and cannot cure it. She was arrested because the police mistakenly thought she was distributing Falun Gong materials. She felt it better to die than to live. After being driven out of the exhibit, she was threatened immediately by a policeman that if she did not leave, she would be put into a police vehicle right away. She had to leave in silence with tears in her eyes.
Beijing appealer Sun Lianxi, who was refused entrance to the exhibit similarly said, “They even shamelessly held a human rights exhibit, where ordinary people do not have the right to visit. You see the number of police is even more than the number of visitors. This human rights exhibit should be held in an appealers’ village. There they have a true China human rights exhibit and there is no need to spend a cent in preparation. It is vivid and truthful. What is shown here is all fake, and one cannot view it at liberty. The government is very much afraid.”
