Mr. Speaker, Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline whose moral teachings are truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. The Chinese government perceives religion as a threat to its state atheism, especially Falun Gong, whose popularity has grown since it was founded in 1992. Since 1999, the Chinese government has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in the thousands, perhaps even millions.
Zhang Yunhe is the sister of Tianxiao Zhang, a Canadian citizen from Toronto. She was arrested in 2002 in Qingdao and was detained for over half a year because she was a practitioner of Falun Gong. Her family was not notified of her arrest, making this a case of forced disappearance. Her family has called on the Shandong provincial prison administration many times to inquire about Yunhe, and the prison administration remains silent on this matter, in a clear dereliction of duty. Zhang Yunhe has not been seen and there have been no reports on her since her arrest.
Therefore, the petitioners request that the Canadian Parliament and government pass a resolution to establish measures to stop the Chinese Communist regime's crime of systematically imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners, amend Canadian legislation to combat forced organ harvesting and, finally, publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.