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China Overseas
Joint Conference of Democratic Movement Groups
Oct. 19, 2000
China Overseas Joint Conference of Democratic Movement Groups, which has the
famous personage of democratic movement Wei Jingsheng as its chairman and
includes many democratic movement groups, made a statement today to express
extremely close attention to safety of Zhong Gong’s founder Mr. Zhang Hongbao.
The statement says:
The founder of Zhong Gong Mr. Zhang Hongbao has fled abroad because of being
subjected to CPC’s political persecutions and entered into the U.S.-administered
island of Guam to seek political asylum. At present, the U.S. Government still
puts Zhang Hongbao in prison of Immigration Bureau. CPC authorities constantly
exert pressure and demand the U.S. to extradite Zhang Hongbao back to China.
It is known to all that since last year CPC authorities cruelly start to
suppress Falun Gong and other Qigong groups, thus seriously hurt the human right
of Qigong practitioners. As democratic movement groups we resolutely oppose the
crime of CPC’s persecuting Qigong practitioners. We demand that U.S. Government
assures the security of Mr. Zhang Hongbao and let him remain in America to live
freely with proper resident status.