A Call for Human Rights in China

LOS ANGELES�"The Chinese communist regime has not fulfilled its promise of improving human rights at all. On the contrary, it has launched another intensive wave of persecution in the name of preparing for the Olympics," said Ying Nian Wu, a professor of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles and a member of the Western U.S. Falun Dafa Association, during a speech. As the 2008 Beijing Olympics grow ever nearer, the world's call for human rights is coming to center stage. Gathered with a shared purpose to shine light into the dark corners of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) various human rights atrocities, human rights advocates held a press conference and rally in the South Lawn of the Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday, Feb. 23. Further describing some of the CCP's well-hidden crimes, Professor Wu said, "On July 10, 1999, the Chinese communist regime specifically created an agency called the '610 office' to persecute Falun Gong.

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