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Falun Gong Practitioner 'Will Never Ever Go Back To Mainland China'

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:45

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A Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioner who was detained by Chinese authorities in June said yesterday he was forced to make a confession to certain crimes in exchange for gaining his release and return to Taiwan. “I will never ever go back to China, even though Chinese officials asked me to visit again, assuring my personal safety,” Chung Ting-pang vowed.

The Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that Chung Ting-pang was released because he “admitted the crime and repented with a good attitude,” but Chung said Monday that none of those actions were made of his own free will.

“They offered me a standard confession statement and implied that if I didn’t cooperate, I might not be able to go home,” the 53-year-old manager of a Hsinchu-based technology firm said at a press conference.

According to the Chinese news agency, authorities suspected that Chung worked to sabotage television services on the mainland, claims he and his defenders say were trumped up. ”As a Falungong member, I had done something in order to let the people in China not misunderstand and hate Falungong… People in the mainland have the right to know the truth,” he said.

His release came just after Taiwan and China signed a landmark investment pact, underlining warming ties since 2008, when Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang party came to power on a platform of beefing up trade and tourism links.

Falungong followers and Chung’s family had held protests to turn up the heat on the China-friendly government and his family appealed to a US congressman for help in securing Chung’s release.

The political opposition have repeatedly accused Ma of showing weak leadership regarding China’s human rights record.

Taiwan and China split in 1949 at the end of a civil war. ABOUT FALUN GONG The teachings of Falun Gong are based on the principles of zhēn 眞, shàn 善 and rěn 忍 (which translate approximately as truthfulness, benevolence, and forbearance) articulated in the two main books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun. Falun Gong is an introductory book that discusses qigong, introduces the aforementioned principles, and provides illustrations and explanations of exercises for meditation. Zhuan Falun is considered the central and most comprehensive exposition on the teachings of Falun Gong.

According to the book Falun Gong, “Fǎlún” (Buddha Fǎ) is a great, high-level cultivation way of the Buddha School (different from Buddhism), in which assimilation to the supreme nature of the universe, Zhen-Shan-Ren, is the foundation of cultivation practice.” In this concept, “cultivation” refers to upgrading one’s xīnxìng (mind-nature) through abandoning negative attachments and assimilating oneself to “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance”. “Practice” refers to the five meditative exercises that are said to purify and transform one’s body. Cultivation is considered essential, and the exercises are said to supplement the process of improving oneself . SOURCE http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2012/08/14/350875/Released-Falun.htm and http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/307540/taiwan-man-says-forced-to-show-remorse-in-china

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