Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present today.
The first one is in regard to Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted in China since 1999 by the CCP, which launched a campaign to have the faith eradicated in China.
L.I. Yongmei is the mother of Suting Li, a resident of Calgary. L.I. Yongmei received her second prison sentence in 2023, for five years, because she is a practitioner of Falun Gong. Her phone was monitored for six months and her home was ransacked by police. She was strung up by her wrists with her feet in the air during the interrogation. She was first arrested in 2014 and was incarcerated from 2015 to 2017, when she was subjected to torture. She refused to renounce her faith or admit any guilt, and as such, she endured extended periods of squatting and standing, and had freezing cold water poured on her. She was deprived of food and sleep. She was forced to do unpaid labour and was made to sleep on a bare bed board with no blankets.
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 publicly call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.