Are Persecution Facts State Secrets?
According to reports from Clearwisdom.net, over the past more than five years of persecution of Falun Gong, more than 1,000 practitioners have been tortured to death. Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are still being held in prisons, labor camps and brainwashing centers where they are subjected to torture. However, the Chinese government continuously spreads false news to try to conceal the persecution facts. Facts about Falun Gong have become highly sensitive topics that are strictly censored by the authorities. The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) revealed that people who sent information about the persecution of Falun Gong to overseas websites would be arrested and sentenced to jail by the Chinese government in the name of disclosing state secrets. Police officer Li Baozhen from Liaoning Province was abducted and sentenced to 6 years in prison after he wrote three articles about the persecution and had them published on Clearwisdom
