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The Dignity of the Mission

On 16th March 2002, Mr Alexander Downer, the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, signed “certificates” declaring that Falun Gong practitioners’ banners across the road from the Chinese Embassy “impair the dignity” of the (Chinese) mission. The question is why does the Minister continue to issue these certificates every month for the last 44 months, and how do we define this “impairment of dignity?

Zhang Dejiang Named in Lawsuit, Australian Federal Police Accepts List of Officials Involved in Persecuting Falun Gong (Photos)

Zhang Dejiang, member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Politburo and Secretary of the CCP Committee of Guangdong Province, was served with a summons from the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the crime of torture against a Sydney resident, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xie Yan. He received the court summons as he led a delegation to attend the China Guangdong-Australia Business Conference 2005 at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

The Age: Washington names worst religious freedom violators

The United States has named eight countries as the world’s worst violators of religious liberty. China and its neighbours joined Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Eritrea as nations designated as “countries of particular concern”, the State Department said.

Manningham Leader (Australia): Widow talks of horror

And for that Jane Dai says her husband was kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered. Mrs Dai fled China in 2001 fearing for her life with her nine-month-old daughter after her husband was arrested and sent to a detention centre for practising the traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, Falun Gong.

Stop Persecuting Spiritual Believers and Amend Your Ties with the Chinese People

An Open Letter to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao from Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

Before I could sit down and send my greetings to you, my two fellow compatriots, out of solicitude for another group of our common fellow compatriots, Falun Gong believers, I went to several places outside Beijing to investigate the real situation about Falun Gong believers suffering a new wave of systematic, large-scale, organized illegal persecution. During my days outside Beijing, I was hiding, laying low like a thief. That’s why many in the outside world spread the hearsay that I was “missing.”

This new round of continued, systematic, large-scale, and organized brutal persecution targeting our fellow Chinese citizens who believe in Falun Gong is an ongoing reality, not only revealed in recent letters addressed to us from different regions, but also a reality we personally witnessed during our trip outside Beijing. As a Chinese citizen, and as a lawyer, I am willing to bear any legal responsibility for witnessing and publicizing these facts.