Denunciation of Falun Gong Continues Across Nation

Officials and the general public across China continue to lash out at Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong organization, with an increasing number of people coming to realize the true nature of the cult.

Falun Gong has fooled and instigated practitioners to besiege and disturb government departments and the media in the past few years. In particular, the April 25 gathering at the Zhongnanhai compound severely disordered the routine work of the Party and government institutions, and jeopardized Beijing's stability, in violation of the Constitution and other regulations, said Tian Shuyu, a judge at the people's higher court of north China's Hebei Province.

The Falun Dafa Research Society was illegal because it was not registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said Chai Zhenguo, a law professor with the Hebei University of Economics and Trade. Just as illegal were the activities organized by the organization that disturbed social order.

Chen Shasha, one of the former heads of Falun Gong's general training center in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, participated in the December 31 gathering around the provincial government building, and the April 25 gathering at the Zhongnanhai compound.

But now she has broken with the cult. The 48-year-old Party member said that Li Hongzhi often agitated practitioners to put pressure upon governments, and that he adopted many illegal means to materialize his ulterior political motives.

Experts from legal circles in Jilin Province and other localities have suggested strengthening legal education for the public, in a bid to raise legal awareness among the general public.

(China daily 1999/08/10)