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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
中功的张洪堡因在美国暴力伤人，恐吓和强奸，已经被捕，遭警方起诉
Pasadena Star-News
Spiritual guru Arrested
Chinese exile who leads millions of followers held in beating
By Marshall Allen
Staff Writer
Sunday, May 04, 2003 -
PASADENA -- The exiled leader of a Chinese spiritual movement whose disciples have numbered in the millions faces multiple charges for allegedly beating and kidnapping his housekeeper at his northeast Pasadena home.
A conviction could lead to his deportation back to China, where he could be executed, experts on the movement said.
Hongbao Zhang, aka Zhang Hongbao, 49, is the founder and "master' of Zhong Gong, a Chinese spiritual movement that had a reported 38 million adherents in 1990. The government of the People's Republic of China has regarded Zhang as a potential threat to its regime, according to John Kusumi, executive director of the China Support Network, a Connecticut-based organization that supports the Chinese democracy movement.
Powerful Washington figures, including senators Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Jesse Helms, R- N.C., were among those who successfully lobbied government officials to offer Zhang asylum in 2001.
Zhang was arrested March 15 by Pasadena police and booked on felony charges involving the alleged beating of housekeeper Nan Fang He, 49. Zhang, free on $100,000 bond, has a preliminary hearing set for May 13.
"He is the guru of Zhong Gong,' Kusumi said. "(Zhong Gong is) an organization that we believe remains capable of taking action, and that's something deeply worrisome to the Chinese (government).'
Zhang has been charged with four felonies, including kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, in the March 15 incident. He has also filed a civil lawsuit against Zhang. The alleged assault took place at his gated estate in the foothills bordering the San Gabriel Mountains, Pasadena police said.
The case wouldn't be considered unusual in the Pasadena Superior Court except that Zhang is a Chinese citizen living under special circumstances in the United States because of his status as a powerful but persecuted Chinese dissident.
Founded in 1987, Zhong Gong is reportedly the largest of the traditional Chinese "qi qong' organizations spiritual wellness groups that use meditation and breathing exercises to promote holistic health. Falun Gong is another qi qong organization that's received attention since the Chinese government began persecuting the groups in 1999, Kusumi said.
In its heyday, Zhong Gong operated thousands of businesses, clinics and training centers throughout China, according to an Associated Press report, where it sold qi qong uniforms, tapes and health products and sundry items including Tibetan incense and mineral water.
Philosophically, Zhang's teachings were seen as contrary to the Communist Party line that Marxism is the only needed basis for the party and the country, according to the China Support Network Web site. According to his supporters, Zhang was persecuted by the Chinese, fled the country in 1994 and lived as an international fugitive who eventually sought asylum in the United States in 2000.
Before he was granted permission to reside in the United States in April 2001, Zhang went through an immigration trial that lasted more than a year. The international case included critics of the Chinese regime rallying around Zhang. Prominent politicians including then-Senate Majority Leader Lott and Helms wrote letters on his behalf requesting that he be allowed to live and work in the United States. Zhang is a significant figure because his rise to power parallels the rise of China's democracy movement, Kusumi said.
The Chinese government, on the other hand, says Zhang is being pursued because he's a criminal. They accuse him of raping many women, including some who are disabled and others who are minors. Chinese officials issued a warrant for his arrest in June 2000, according to a press release on the Embassy of China's Web site.
"The Chinese law-enforcement authorities are going after (Zhang) not because he was once the leader of Zhong Gong, but because he has committed heinous crimes against Chinese citizens. No amount of spinning can whitewash his criminal past,' the press release said.
Zhang was unavailable for comment, but his supporters say the PRC's accusations against him are fabricated because he's a staunch anti-Communist and powerful leader.
"The Chinese government has been known to spin a yarn, especially when it suits their motivation. It's a political motivation,' Kusumi said. "Zhang Hongbao is a figure of importance in the story of the persecution and crackdown on religion.'
The Chinese immigrant housekeeper who now accuses Zhang had worked for him since June 2001, He's attorney in the civil case, Steve Scandura, said. The Pasadena Police Department report on the incident describes it as a "brutal beating' in which Zhang choked He and bashed her head against a chair. During the beating, according to the report, the victim told police that Zhang told her: "If you tell the police, I will kill your whole family. If you tell your daughter, I will have her killed first.'
The alleged beating lasted so long that Zhang had to take a rest before he could resume the violence, Scandura said.
After the incident, Zhang, with the help of two of his students, locked the housekeeper in a room, according to the police report. When her captors became distracted, the housekeeper escaped, running to the street where she wandered bloody and dazed for hours before flagging down a taxi, the report said. Scandura said his client suffered injuries in the attack, including head trauma and blurred vision and has been emotionally scarred.
Since reporting the attack, she fears for her life, according to a petition for a restraining order that Scandura filed Friday. The petition says the March 15 assault wasn't Zhang's first against He. Zhang allegedly hit the housekeeper on another occasion after she found out Zhang had made sexual advances toward her 20-year-old daughter and she refused to allow her daughter near him.
Since the March 15 incident, Zhang's followers have been stalking He's family, according to the petition for a restraining order. The report also says that Zhang previously told her, "I can have anyone killed like a chicken. No difficulty.'
While the charges the Chinese have made against Zhang have no bearing on the criminal trial against him in Los Angeles County, Zhang could be deported to China if convicted of a felony, said L.A. County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons.
Kusumi, who didn't know about the current charges, said that if returned to China Zhang would "certainly be executed.'
"He'd meet with an alarming end,' Kusumi said. "Nothing that awaits him in China is commensurate with the charges (in Pasadena).'
-- Marshall Allen can be reached at (626) 578-6300, Ext. 4461, or by e-mail at [email protected].
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~22097~1369809,00.html
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