Sydneysiders will participate in a candlelight commemoration 6pm today at Town
Hall as part of a series of activities to commemorate lives lost and to call
for an end to the eight-year persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China
that began on July 20, 1999.
Falun Dafa Associations from twenty-two countries joined forces to send a joint statement condemning Hong Kong’s refusal of entry and forced deportation of hundreds of Falun Dafa practitioners, most of whom were from Taiwan. Practitioners were traveling to Hong Kong to participate in demonstrations marking the tenth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
Falun Gong practitioner ask DFAT to raise organ harvesting issue at the upcoming talks.
