The 53-year-old Peregian Beach resident has been practicing Falun Gong meditation for about five years. He claims he was a victim of information gathered by Chinese spies, after he was arrested and detained in secret for two days in Hong Kong before being deported back to Australia.
On June 16, 2005, after enduring brutal persecution, Ms. Gao Rongrong, 37, died in the emergency room of China Medical University Hospital, located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The persecutors are pressuring her family to cremate her body quickly, in order to destroy all evidence of their crimes.
Candlelight vigil will be held in front of Chinese embassies and consulates Australian wide in memory of Ms Gao and to call for the stop of the brutal persecution towards Falun Gong practitioners from the Chinese communist regime.
A motion will be raised by the Democrats in the Senate in relation to Falun Gong. A brief information package with the most up-to-date information on the ongoing persecution in China and also its effect on Australians will be available.
The Falun Dafa Association of NSW has contacted the Falun Gong practitioners in Villawood detention centre this morning and confirmed that they are all intact and were not involved in the self-harm yesterday.
One time, I happened to accompany an official from China who was overseas with a fellow delegate to visit resorts. Along the way, we naturally started to talk about China’s current situation.
TORONTO – As Jillian Ye braced herself to hear the contents of a secret document recently smuggled from China’s state security agency, she might have guessed she’d be listening to private information. What surprised her is that it was her own.
In order to support my family, I started working for the newly formed Tianjin Bureau of State Security until February, 2005 when I managed to escape from China. I was in charge of Falun Gong issue, and dealt with other Qigong sects that were labeled cults by the Chinese government.
Many New Zealand Falun Gong practitioners believe they have been put on a ‘black list’ held by the Chinese government. Some practitioners have had their passport renewals and visa applications refused. Seven practitioners were arrested when they visited China in 1999.
On June 11, 2005, New South Wales Falun Dafa Association held an anti-torture exhibit and a press conference in the Belmore Park located in downtown Sydney to further introduce facts about Falun Gong and the CCP’s suppression.
According to New South Wales Falun Dafa Association spokesperson Kay Rubacek, on March 16, 2002, the day before Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan visited the Australian capital, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Alexander Downer first issued certificates which prevent the use of banners and amplified music within 100 meters from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
