US Assistant Secretary of State Lorne Craner is leading the 11th round of the human rights dialogue and will meet the chief justice of China’s supreme court and other high-ranking bureaucrats.
Subjects up for discussion include workers’ rights, religious freedom, Falun Gong and issues related to Tibet and Xinjiang.
18 December 2002, (Sydney Falun Dafa Information Centre) – December 24 marks the end of a public appeal for the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, expression, association, and the right to peaceful assembly, currently being challenged in Hong Kong.
To draw attention to his fiancee and other Falun Gong followers’ plight, Mr Lee arrived in Wollongong yesterday on the first leg of a cycling trip to Canberra.
At the time her child was ill and needed medical attention. In front of the 10 year-old child, the police twisted his mother’s arm, slapped her in the face and even tied her up. This shocked the child so much that he would not stop crying.
At least 12,000 demonstrators marched on Sunday to protest
a planned anti-subversion law they fear will undermine Hong Kong’s freedoms
and put the territory more firmly under the thumb of mainland China.
It was the largest protest so far against the controversial legislation.
Organisers put the attendance at 25,000 while police said 12,000 joined the
march. Last week, a survey conducted by the Hong Kong Transition Project, an
academic-led group which monitors the effects of the handover from British
to Chinese rule in the territory, found the proposed security laws had
raised fears about personal freedoms to their highest levels since 1997.
“The provision concerns laws regarding treason, succession, subversion, and
sedition against China’s Communist Party, and the theft of state secrets.”
Mr. Watkins said that he received an anonymous email slandering Falun Gong and asking him to stay away from Falun Gong. He said that he would continue to support Falun Gong and the establishment of a stele in Cabramatta on which the words of “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” are written.
The Falun Gong spiritual group has called on the United States to urge China
during human rights talks next week to release more than 100 jailed
adherents.
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people mounted
one of their biggest marches in years on Sunday to denounce plans for an
anti-subversion law they fear will erode freedom and civil liberties.
