A rally consisting of seven supporters of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was held in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Tuesday.
After the South Africa shooting incident took place, family members of the victims and representatives of Falun Gong practitioners held a discussion with officials of the South African Embassy in Australia. The South African Embassy said that they would try their best to arrest the criminals.
Sydney resident David Liang, father of two, was among nine Australians Falun Gong practitioners who arrived in South Africa on 28th June to file a lawsuit against Chinese officials visiting Johannesburg. Little did he know that his efforts to seek justice would nearly cost him his life.
This is the most severe case of persecution against overseas Falun Gong practitioners in the last five years. The victims believe that this was a deliberate assassination attempt by hired gunmen with involvment of Chinese officials.
An outlawed religious sect in China is charging the government with torturing prisoners, executing them and trafficking in their body parts. The charge, by the banned Falun Gong group, is backed up by Chinese doctors and human rights experts who keep tabs on activities of the Beijing government.
A MEMBER of the Falun Gong movement has been shot in a drive-by attack in South Africa. David Liang sustained gunshot wounds to his feet after his car was sprayed with bullets near Johannesburg.
It is that ability to stay pristine and beautiful despite being surrounded by impurities that led the Falun Gong to choose it as a symbol of hope, especially for the children of Falun Gong practitioners.
Six defendants, including two pro-Communist organizations, were served with a summons for a civil lawsuit yesterday for their roles in an assault against practitioners of Falun Gong last year in New York City.
A Chinese minister was served with legal papers Friday charging him with torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The papers were served upon a guard outside Wang Xudong’s hotel room within hours after the Minister of the Information Industry delivered a speech at an internet technology trade summit in Chicago.
“Imagine if there existed a book documenting Hitler’s plans and the atrocities he committed throughout Europe while they were still taking place,” says John Jaw, President of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, which published the book.
While the Chinese government claims that international expression of concern over its policies that violate human rights constitute an imposition on its state sovereignty, the regime has no misgivings about sending agents around the world not only to apply pressure and interfere in local events, but also to commit crimes in foreign countries.
