Hao Fengjun, 32, a former police officer of the 610 Office of the Tianjin Bureau of State Security, sought political asylum in Australia after he fled China in February, 2005. He left his work because he no longer wanted to be involved in the persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.
The group in Australia issued a statement Thursday urging Canberra to grant asylum to the two defectors, and voicing the hope that “just as with the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners and what they have been subjected to in these labor camps will not remain a secret for much longer.”
My wife and son went to visit our parents in China during the Chinese New Year holidays late in January this year. The day after my wife arrived in our hometown in southern China, two Chinese secret policemen came to my parents’ home.
Falun Gong practitioners have reasonable grounds to legally reinstate the freedom to display the banners and to use amplified sound in exercising their right to freedom of expression in Australia. The proceedings seek exemplary damages against Mr Downer and the return of Falun Gong banners that have been seized.
Ask the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre about China’s freedom of speech; ask the brutally tortured Falun Gong practitioners about China’s freedom of belief.
The Falun Dafa Associations in Australia call upon the Australian Government to offer immediate asylum to Chinese officials Mr Chen Yonglin and Mr. Hao Fengjun and to fully examine allegations of Chinese spies operating in Australia.
A New York Federal Court reached a default judgment in the absence of defendant Guo Chuanjie, the deputy head of the 610 Office. This office is also called the “Leadership Group Dealing with Falun Gong Issues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences”. The judge ordered Guo Chuanjie to compensate victims for damages as well as financial losses inflicted on the plaintiffs.
Mr Hao says he worked for the local branch of a security service known as 6-10, set up specifically to wipe out the religious group, Falun Gong. “Back in China I worked in the 6-10 office and every day a lot of time was dealing with the reports that were being sent in from overseas,” he told the program.
A fugitive Chinese security agent hiding in Melbourne has been inspired by the recent defection of Chinese diplomat Mr Chen Yonglin and The Epoch Times’ Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, to reveal information about the massive human rights abuses inside China, especially those against Falun Gong practitioners, and Chinese spy activities in Australia.
Mr Chen has confessed to monitoring the Falun Gong movement in Australia but now says he sympathises with them. Falun Gong member Kay Rubacek admits to being shocked by Mr Chen’s public about-face.
