The report also describes the experiences of many more children whothrough the incarceration or death of their parents under officialpersecution have become orphans or have lost the care of their parents,and have lost their rights to education and other social services andbasic human rights. The report also provides information on underageFalun Gong practitioners who have been forced to submit to brainwashingand to renounce their beliefs, and others who have been detained inReeducation Through Labor (RTL) camps. (boxun.com)

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Human Rights in China (HRIC) expresses its deep concern over thisreport, in particular as China's report on its implementation of itsobligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child comes upfor review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in May 2005.

Following are some of the cases detailed in the report:

* Wang Lixuan and her eight-month old son, Meng Hao, natives ofShandong Province, were detained on October 22, 2000 while traveling toBeijing, where Wang Lixuan was planning to petition on behalf of FalunGong. The mother and baby both died at the Tuanhe Forced Labor DispatchDivision in Beijing on November 7, 2000. The coroner's exam determinedthat Wang Lixuan's neck and fingers were broken, her skull was fracturedand she had a needle stuck in her lower back. Her baby, Meng Hao, wasfound to have deep bruises on his ankles and head and blood in his nose.It is believed that little Meng Hao had been hung upside down by hisankles.

* Chen Ying, a 17-year old girl, went to Beijing in August 1999 topetition on behalf of Falun Gong. Police detained her, and policeofficers and officials escorted her on a train back to her home inHeilongjiang Province. After the officials abused and insulted Chen Yingduring the train ride, she jumped out of a window and was fatallyinjured.

* Liu Qian, a 12-year old girl, began practicing Falun Gong in2003 as a form of therapy after learning that she had leukemia. Eightmonths later she was well enough to return to school, but the principalinsisted that Liu Qian and her parents sign a pledge that she would stoppracticing Falun Gong. When Liu Qian and her family refused to comply,Liu Qian was expelled form school. Liu Qian fell into a deep depression,and her health deteriorated. She died on February 11, 2004.

According to the report, as of September 18, 2004 some 1,047 Falun Gongpractitioners had died in relation to official persecution, with manymore detained for their beliefs. Many of these practitioners have leftbehind children who suffer a less visible form of persecution. Thereport provides details of several such cases.

* Four-year-old Rong Rong lost her father, Zou Songtao, when shewas not even a year old. Zou died in the Wangcun Village Laogai (ReformThrough Labor) Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province on November 3, 2000,after being detained and sentenced for refusing to renounce his FalunGong beliefs. Rong Rong's mother, Zhang Yunhe, lost her accounting jobbecause of her religion, and in May 2001 fled her home to avoid arrest.She has not been heard from since. Rong Rong was sent to live with hergrandparents, but her grandmother died soon afterward.

* Lin Huixuan, a five-year-old girl, has not seen her father, LinYanqing, since the end of 2002, when he was sentenced to three years ina forced labor camp. Huixuan, along with her mother, Xu Lei, and hergrandparents were forced into a life on the road to escape arrest.Nevertheless, on February 19, 2004 Huixuan's mother and grandparentswere arrested in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, and taken back toBeijing. Forcibly separated from those closest to her, Huixuan has beenput into the care of another relative.

* On February 7, 2004, Falun gong practitioner Zhao Xudong diedfrom abusive treatment at the Lanzhou City Huilinshan No. 2 DetentionCenter. His wife, Li Hongping, and his mother, Jin Yuyue, are also indetention, and Zhao's eight-year-old daughter has been left in the careof her elderly grandfather.

* Wang Zhe was expelled from the No. 1 Senior High School inChangtu County, Liaoning Province in February 2004 after openlyobjecting to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Wang Zhe andhis mother went to the school on April 6 requesting that Wang Zhe bereadmitted to the school, but the school headmaster reported the matterto the police, after which Wang Zhe was detained.

* Kang Jiaqi attended the Hengshui City Second Middle School inHebei Province, where her mother was a teacher. But after Jiaqi's fatherwas detained for his Falun Gong beliefs, Jiaqi's mother left home toavoid arrest, and Jiaqi was forced to withdraw from school.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that childhood isentitled to special care and assistance. The UN Convention on the Rightsof the Child, which China ratified in 1992, declares that every childhas the right to life, and that every country has the responsibility ofensuring the survival and development of its children. The Conventionspecifically states that countries shall not discriminate against anychild on the basis of the child's or the child's parent's race,religion, political opinion and other status, and that countries should"take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protectedagainst all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of thestatus, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child'sparents."

"Persecuting children on the basis of their or their parents' beliefs isa fundamental violation of the rights of the child under internationallaw," said HRIC president Liu Qing. "The Chinese government shoulddemonstrate its compliance with the Convention by ensuring that no childis subjected to torture, detention or loss of basic human rights becauseof the religious beliefs of themselves or their parents," Liu Qing said. (boxun.com)