The festival was scheduled to begin at 2pm and last into the night. Amidst the sounds of heavy African beats the Falun Dafa stall sat still as the only store to receive a beam of sunlight, shining through the buildings of the urban surrounds.
I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner and have been practicing for over two years. I was born in Australia and bought up in the Jewish religion.
It has been reported from Beijing that Jiang and his cohorts have dispatched a “special envoy” to CCTV to supervise the coverage of the Iraqi war and of SARS.
Canadian Foreign Minister Answers Reporter’s Question Regarding the Chinese Party’s Blocking Information About the Spread of SARS
Falun Gong followers worldwide were turning out to support the suit filed
last October in federal court in Chicago by practitioners, mostly from the
United States, who accuse Jiang of genocide and other crimes
On June 10, 1999, because of Jiang Zemin’s personal will and abuse of power, the “610 Office” was specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
Ms. Wang told reporters that Jiang’s regime arrested her family members because she narrated her experience of brutal persecution in China, and her participation in international lawsuits holding Jiang responsible for his crimes. Her family members are not Falun Gong practitioners. Jiang’s regime carries out a policy of “guilt by implication” to retaliate and persecute her family members.
“The Chinese regime’s current cover-up of the SARS outbreak is sadly an indicator of a much larger problem,” “Since 1999, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the U.S. government and many other reputable sources have documented hundreds of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China from torture and other abuse, yet to this day, the Chinese regime maintains that not a single Falun Gong practitioner has died in custody from police torture or abuse.”
Yet, through my sadness I felt her strength and her gentle determination to express her deep compassion for us, and that she understood and respected our way of thinking and feeling. At that point, I understood the truth and my heart began to change.
On April 5th and 6th, 2003, the International Human Rights Association held its 31st annual meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. The topic of this annual meeting was “Eliminating Cruel Punishment.”
