I really think it is not that difficult. I think the difficulty is, other countries have to place more importance on the fact that there is this persecution going on in China, and it’s really severe. I think the world has stayed silent for too long, and turned a blind eye.
Followers of the banned religious movement Falun Gong gathered here yesterday just days before the Athens Games to call on China to immediately improve human rights in the country ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In the morning of Friday, 6 August 2004, at approximately 11.00am Athens time, Falun Gong practitioners successfully filed a criminal lawsuit based on torture against Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan and Li Lanqing.
The press conference was successful with a number of Greek as well as foreign press attending.
We urge the faction within the Chinese Government who are carrying out a systematic and brutal persecution of Falun Gong to stop and allow China to return to her true self – a nation and a people who, like the ancient Olympic athletes celebrated by Pindar, embrace balance and harmony between man, nature and the divine.
On July 19th, Chen was summoned to appear before the Tanzanian court in reference to the case. This is the first time any Chinese official responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong has appeared in person at any of the legal actions filed in many countries.
Following the successful rescue of Ms. Li Ying, fiancée of Australian Citizen Li Qizhong, from a Chinese forced labour camp, another couple have been happily reunited in Sydney.
The historic legal action against Member of the Chinese State Council Chen Zhili has taken a major step forward. The preliminary judgment in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 3 was in favor of the Falun Gong practitioners in Ethiopia, on whose behalf attorneys brought the case.
Through a series of on-line news, people may have recently become clearer about the disaster that Jiang Zemin’s faction has brought to the nation-wide educational system during the persecution of Falun Gong. It may not be excessive to say that China’s educational institutions are marching toward complete deterioration.
