News was released in Singapore media on May 28, 2006 that the former head of the In conjunction with nine practitioners' The articles especially Ms. Huang pointed out that she The CCP's persecution The following series of incidents have happened since May On June 2, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Nie Ge who held dual On June 14, 2006, The On July 10, 2006, The On July 12, 2006, Ms. Huang Chay Hua went alone On July 14, the
Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 610
Office Li Lanqing, invited by Lee Kuan Yee, would be conferred an honorary
doctorate by the National University of Singapore. After that, there occurred
a series of incidents in Singapore from an attempt to repatriate Falun Gong practitioners,
to the banning of Falun Gong practitioners from holding truth clarification activities
in front of the Chinese Embassy, to charging Falun Gong practitioners in court
for the third time.
appearing in court on July 14, the major Chinese and English media in Singapore
including The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao (Chinese daily), Lianhe
Wanbao (Chinese daily) and My Newspaper (Wo Bao) published a series
of slanderous articles which were obviously directed by high level authorities.
These articles were then republished and trumped up by the CCP's mouthpiece
in China, which had an extremely bad influence.
targeted Ms. Huang Chay Hua, who has been persisting in her protest in front of
the Chinese Embassy daily in the past year.
was alone doing the exercise at the time of her arrest, while behind her there
hung a banner with a message protesting Li Lanqing.
of Falun Gong is doomed to failure. Falun Gong practitioners are not wrong to
clarify
the truth. We hope the Singapore government will attach importance to morality,
justice and conscience, withdraw the charges against Falun Gong practitioners
and no longer curry favor with the CCP. Only by doing so, can Singapore have a
bright future.
28, 2006:
legal status of residence, suddenly had her work permit canceled, and was taken
to the police station and detained for eight hours.
Immigration and Checkpoint Authorities (ICA) notified Chinese practitioner, Ms.
Yang, that she must leave Singapore within three days. She was staying in Singapore
with legal status at the time. On June 15, with help from international human
rights organizations, she was allowed to leave Singapore.
the ICA decided not to consider the practitioner's appeal for an extended
stay, and demanded her to leave Singapore no later than the next day. The same
day, nine practitioners received subpoenas from the police, requiring them to
appear in court on July 14. The charge was assembly without permit. The reason
for the charge was that the above mentioned practitioners distributed flyers exposing
the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and supporting five million withdrawals
from the CCP and its affiliated organizations in downtown areas on October 22nd
and 23rd last year. During the activities, practitioners were peaceful
and harmonious, without having any conflict with either passersby or the police.
date for appearing in court on the subpoena was originally on July 4th
(The first day of Li Lanqing's Seal Cutting Exhibition), and later was changed
to July 14th.
to the front of the Chinese Embassy as usual to do the exercises. She carried
a small banner on her back. Soon more than a dozen plainclothes police came to
the site, took her to the police car and then to the Tanglin Police Station. The
police told Ms. Huang she was being investigated on the charge of “Malicious Harassment,”
because the content of the banner was protesting Li Lanqing for persecuting Falun
Gong. Ms. Huang was later bailed out and returned home.
nine practitioners appeared in court and all pleaded not guilty. The court gave
eight of the practitioners a one week extension until July 21st to
be back in court. Another practitioner was given a three week extension until
August 4th.
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Original
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