Glossary
- "April 25": This refers to the "sensitive"
anniversary of April 25, 1999, on which date ten thousand Falun Gong
practitioners peacefully gathered outside the Zhongnanhai compound (China’s
central government building) and successfully appealed for the release of
forty-five practitioners who had been illegally arrested in Tianjin City.
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Clarifying the Truth:
Because of the persecution in China and the unrelenting hate campaign
carried out by China's state-controlled media, Falun Gong practitioners
have been actively "clarifying the truth" -- explaining to the public
the facts about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution. Truth
clarification activities include face-to-face conversations with
people, posting notices and posters, handing out flyers, and hanging
banners. Outside of China, where Falun Gong is freely practiced,
practitioners further expose the persecution through anti-torture
reenactments, art exhibits, Internet websites, books, magazines,
newspapers, movies and letter writing. The goal of clarifying the truth
is to help people understand Falun Gong, to dispel the lies of the
communist regime in China and to raise public support to end the
persecution. (Variations: "clarifying the truth",
"truth clarifying",
"truth-clarifying",
"truth clarification",
"truth-clarification",
"clarifying the facts",
"clarified the truth", and
"clarified the facts")
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- Collaborators: Former practitioners who
have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then
made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners.
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Death Bed torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his
hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with
thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's
body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly
that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses
consciousness.
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- Fa:
Law and principles; the teachings of Falun Dafa.
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- Guarantee
Statement: A statement to declare that one is remorseful for
practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to
go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any
Falun Dafa practitioners.
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- Hong Yin: Also known as Grand Poem,
a collection of verse by Li Hongzhi.
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- Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would
like the world to believe, practicing Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China.
Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of
restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws
have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's
Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest
Falun Gong practitioners for practicing the exercises or distributing
flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution
of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The
Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law".
(Variations: "illegally sentenced", "illegally
arrest", "illegal arrest", "illegally sentence",
"illegal sentence", "illegally detained", "illegally
detain", "illegal detention")
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- Lunyu: "On Buddha Law," also known
as "Lunyu," written by Li Hongzhi. It prefaces Zhuan Falun and other
books by Li Hongzhi.
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- Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in
late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine
Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese
around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party."
http://ninecommentaries.com
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Persecuted to death:
This phrase, which came into being after China's Cultural Revolution,
describes the way in which Chinese Communist Party leaders eliminate people
they brand as political opponents. It is a method that aims not simply to
punish people, but to kill them slowly and painfully through various
agonizing forms of physical and mental torture--and to do so in such a way
that no one can be held legally responsible.
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Procuratorate:
The Chinese state organ responsible for legal supervision. Its functions
include deciding on arrest and prosecution of major criminal cases,
conducting investigations, initiating and supporting public prosecutions,
interpreting the law in specific applications, supervising courts decisions,
monitoring judicial procedures, and supervision over activities of prisons,
detention centers, and labor camps.
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Qing: Qing is a Chinese term that encompasses concepts
such as sentiment, emotion, affection, inclination, interest, etc.
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"Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong.
(Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed",
"reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and
"transformation")
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Repentance Statement:
In this statement the
practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise
to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or
go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
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- Sensitive Dates: National holidays or
political meetings, or dates that hold significance to Falun Dafa; the
authorities are afraid that practitioners will publicly appeal on these dates.
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Shan: Compassion, Kindness, Benevolence.
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- The Three Things: The three things
Master Li asked practitioners to do are to study the Fa [the teachings of Falun
Dafa], send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and
about the
persecution to the world's people.
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Three Statements: Practitioners
are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement,"
"Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have
given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit
remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never
again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun
Gong.
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- Tiger
Bench: Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron
bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied
together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on
their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead
without movement for long periods of time.
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Xinxing:
"mind-nature" (lit.), "character," or "thought."
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- Yuan
is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an
urban worker in China.
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- Zhuan Falun: This book comprises the
principal teachings of Falun Dafa.
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