IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 605 
Recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China 
on the 10th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign 
to suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an 
immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and 
torture Falun Gong practitioners. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2009 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BUR-
TON of Indiana, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor-
ida, Mr. MINNICK, and Ms. WATERS) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practi-
tioners in China on the 10th anniversary of the Chinese 
Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong 
spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end 
to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and 
torture Falun Gong practitioners. 
Whereas Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual dis-
cipline which consists of moral teachings for daily life, 
meditation, and exercise based upon the principles of 
truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance; 
Whereas, according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Con-
gressional-Executive Commission on China, ‘‘tens of mil-
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lions of Chinese citizens practiced Falun Gong in the 
1990s and adherents to the spiritual movement inside of 
China are estimated to still number in the hundreds of 
thousands despite the government’s ongoing crackdown.’’; 
Whereas in 1996, Falun Gong books were banned in China 
and state media began a campaign criticizing Falun 
Gong; 
Whereas in 1998 and 1999, Chinese police began disrupting 
Falun Gong morning exercises in public parks and began 
searching the homes of Falun Gong practitioners; 
Whereas, on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practi-
tioners gathered outside the State Council Office of Peti-
tions in Beijing, next to the Communist Party leadership 
compound, to request that arrested Falun Gong practi-
tioners be released, the ban on publication of Falun Gong 
books be lifted, and that Falun Gong practitioners be al-
lowed to resume their activities without government inter-
ference; 
Whereas on the same day, immediately after then-Prime Min-
ister Zhu Rongji met with Falun Gong representatives in 
his office and agreed to the release of arrested practi-
tioners, Communist Party Chairman Jiang Zemin criti-
cized Zhu’s actions and stated that the Communist Party 
must ‘‘defeat’’ Falun Gong in order to ‘‘avoid becoming 
a laughing stock.’’; 
Whereas, on June 10, 1999, Jiang Zemin ordered the cre-
ation of the 6–10 office, an extrajudicial security appa-
ratus, given the mandate to ‘‘eradicate’’ Falun Gong; 
Whereas, on July 20, 1999, Chinese police began arresting 
leading Falun Gong practitioners; 
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Whereas, on July 22, 1999, Chinese state media began a 
major propaganda campaign to ban Falun Gong for ‘‘dis-
turbing social order’’ and warning Chinese citizens that 
the practice of Falun Gong was illegal; 
Whereas in October 1999, Party Chairman Jiang Zemin, ac-
cording to western press articles, ‘‘ordered that Falun 
Gong be branded as a ‘cult’, and then demanded that a 
law be passed banning cults’’, the term ‘‘evil cult’’ was 
subsequently utilized by Chinese authorities to undercut 
public sympathy in China for Falun Gong and to play 
upon Western fears of cult movements; 
Whereas Chinese authorities have devoted extensive time and 
resources over the past decade, both at home and abroad, 
to distributing false propaganda claiming that Falun 
Gong is a suicidal and militant ‘‘evil cult’’ rather than a 
spiritual movement which draws upon traditional Chinese 
concepts of meditation and exercise; 
Whereas Chinese official harassment of Falun Gong practi-
tioners has extended to interfering with the exercise of 
the constitutional rights of assembly and free speech by 
United States citizens and lawful permanent residents 
within the boundaries of the United States, including the 
physical assault on Mr. Sheng Mei on October 22, 2000, 
in San Francisco’s China Garden Park ‘‘by a mob of 
thugs who shouted allegations about Falun Gong practi-
tioners identical to those published in various Chinese 
government-controlled newspapers’’ while he was distrib-
uting Falun Gong literature, the physical assault on 
Falun Gong practitioner Bill Fang outside the Consulate 
of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago on Sep-
tember 7, 2002, by an assailant with reported ties to the 
Chinese Government who pleaded guilty to battery 
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charges in the Circuit Court of Cook County, and the 
physical assault on May 19, 2008, on United States cit-
izen Judy Chen, the mother of two United States Ma-
rines then serving in Iraq, outside the public library in 
Flushing, New York, by individuals who also have re-
ported links to the Chinese Government; 
Whereas, on October 18, 2005, highly respected human 
rights attorney Gao Zhisheng wrote a letter to Chinese 
Communist Party Chairman Hu Jintao and Premier Wen 
Jiabao calling for an end to the persecution of Falun 
Gong and Chinese authorities, in response, closed his law 
office and took away his law license, with Chinese secu-
rity forces suspected of being directly involved in Mr. 
Gao’s disappearance on February 4, 2009; 
Whereas Gao Zhisheng’s family has subsequently been grant-
ed political asylum in the United States; 
Whereas in July 2006, former Canadian Secretary of State, 
David Kilgour, and Human Rights Lawyer David Matas, 
published a report, titled ‘‘Report into Allegations of 
Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in 
China’’, of their investigation into the reports of organ 
harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China which 
concluded that large numbers of Falun Gong practi-
tioners are victims of systematic organ harvesting, whilst 
still alive, throughout China and that the practice is still 
ongoing; 
Whereas the Amnesty International 2008 annual report 
states that ‘‘Falun Gong practitioners were at particu-
larly high risk of torture and other ill-treatment in deten-
tion . . . during the year 2007 over 100 Falun Gong 
practitioners were reported to have died in detention or 
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shortly after release as a result of torture, denial of food 
or medical treatment, and other forms of ill-treatment.’’; 
Whereas, according to the 2008 Department of State’s 
Human Rights Report on China, ‘‘Some foreign observers 
estimated that Falun Gong adherents constituted at least 
half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in re-edu-
cation through labor (RTL) camps, while Falun Gong 
sources overseas placed the number even higher.’’; 
Whereas, according to the 2008 Annual Report of the Con-
gressional-Executive Commission on China, ‘‘The (Chi-
nese) central government intensified its nine-year cam-
paign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in 
the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer 
Olympic Games.’’; 
Whereas, according to the Falun Gong Human Rights Work-
ing Group report of March 6, 2009, ‘‘in April 2007, a se-
cret document of the Public Security Bureau listed Falun 
Gong among 11 groups that were to be monitored and 
prohibited from attending the Olympics, in February 
2008, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games 
of the XXIX Olympiad issued an internal instruction to 
‘strictly monitor and control Falun Gong’ ’’, and subse-
quently ‘‘over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners were ar-
rested in the name of the Beijing Olympics’ security.’’; 
Whereas Falun Gong-related websites remain among the 
most systematically and hermetically blocked by China’s 
internet firewall, clearly demonstrating the paranoia and 
hostility directed against Falun Gong by China’s com-
munist leaders; and 
Whereas the Falun Dafa Information Center received reports 
of over 8,000 practitioners having been detained in 2008, 
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with numerous reports of death from torture or other 
abuse while in custody: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses sympathy to Falun Gong practi-
tioners and their family members who have suffered 
persecution, intimidation, imprisonment, torture, 
and even death for the past decade solely because of 
adherence to their personal beliefs; 
(2) calls upon the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China to immediately cease and desist 
from its campaign to persecute, intimidate, im-
prison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners, to im-
mediately abolish the 6–10 office, an extrajudicial 
security apparatus given the mandate to ‘‘eradicate’’ 
Falun Gong, and to immediately release Falun Gong 
practitioners, detained solely for their beliefs, from 
prisons and re-education through labor (RTL) 
camps, including those practitioners who are the rel-
atives of United States citizens and permanent resi-
dents; 
(3) calls upon the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China to end all harassment and intimi-
dation within the borders of the United States of 
Falun Gong practitioners and to end all interference 
in their exercise of rights guaranteed under the 
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United States Constitution and applicable laws of 
the United States; 
(4) calls upon the Secretary of State to ensure 
that officials of foreign embassies and consulates are 
not engaged in activities incompatible with their dip-
lomatic status, including interference in the exercise 
of constitutional rights by United States citizens and 
permanent residents within the borders of the 
United States; and 
(5) calls upon the President and Members of 
Congress to mark the 10th anniversary of Chinese 
official repression of the Falun Gong spiritual move-
ment appropriately and effectively by publicly ex-
pressing solidarity with those practitioners in China 
persecuted solely because of their personal beliefs, 
and by meeting with Falun Gong practitioners when-
ever and wherever possible to indicate that support 
for freedom of conscience remains a fundamental 
principle of the United States Government. 
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