Director of the PIAC, Robin Banks, said the irony of the religious group being excluded from a meeting about human rights obligations, for exercising their right to protest, could not be ignored.
Mr Law, who has lived in Australia for 25 years, said he had his own horrible experience with China three years ago when he was kidnapped and interrogated for three days and nights.
On 9 April 2005 more than 20 Falun Gong practitioners from Sydney and Mittagong came to Canberra, capital city of Australia. They gave a beautiful performance of colourful traditional Chinese dancing and songs in Belconnen’s shopping centre and a fresh food market in north Canberra.
On April 5, 2005, Wu Jialong, the deputy Mayor of Chonqing City and his delegation visited Brisbane, the Capitol of Queensland. Falun Gong practitioners took this opportunity to conduct a peaceful appeal calling for an end to the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife encountered severe persecution shortly after they went back China. Because they practice Falun Gong, when they were in Germany, they filed application for asylum status there. Unfortunately, their application was turned down and they had to go back China.
Inside China a most
bitter wind descends
making
cold of many
a heart.
A ‘Party’ that would
prolong a persecutions
end,
forge lies where
truth departs.
In October of 2002, practitioners of Falun Gong filed a class action lawsuit against former Communist Party Chief, Jiang Zemin, the man who “mobilized a Mao-era mass movement against [Falun Gong…]” according to CNN’s Senior China Analyst, Willy Lam.
