Month: October 2003

Canberra: The Heavens in Bloom(Photos)

Every September to October in Canberra, Australia, the city hosts a spring flower festival, Floriade, where many thousands of people come from all over Australia and the world to walk through the beautiful display gardens.

AFDI Press Statement: Regarding the Chinese Embassy Staff’s Attempts to Curtail Freedom of Speech in Australia

(AFDI) 23 October 2003 – Falun Gong and its practitioners have no interest in politics, even less can people of Chinese descent who practice Falun Gong be called “anti “ their own country of birth. Given the facts about the brutal persecution of people who practice Falun Gong, it is not hard to imagine what certain members of the Chinese government are trying to divert the world’s attention from.

Australian Citizen’s Brother Is Illegally Imprisoned Once Again in Guangdong

Falun Dafa Practitioner Chen Ruichang, the former Deputy Director of the General Editorial Department of Guangdong’s Television Station is illegally arrested again. His younger brother, Australian citizen Richard Chen, is appealing to people from all walks of life to contact the relative departments of the Chinese government in order to rescue his brother before it’s too late. We cannot stand by and allow another tragedy to occur–Ouyang Ming, the relative of another Australian citizen, was persecuted to death in China.