Events
Monday 3rd July 2006, ten school students from Sydney will spend their school holidays on a car tour from Sydney to Melbourne to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
I am Father Peter Caruana and I am the Parish Priest of the Catholic Church in Ingleburn, NSW. I am not a Falun Gong practitioner but I became a member of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG).
Father Caruana wrote to John Howard prior to the prime minister’s visit to China and expressed his concerns. “Falun Gong practitioners in China are being arrested, tortured and harvested for human organs, then left to die,” Father Caruna said.
On June 27, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in front of the Prime Minister’s Office building. They called on Australian Prime Minister John Howard to put forward the Falun Gong human rights issue and help rescue those family members being illegally imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong during his visit to China this week.
A Manly businesswoman whose mother who has been detained by Chinese authorities for allegedly publishing and distributing Falun Gong material has appealed to Prime Minister John Howard for support.
Former director of the Asian Pacific Division of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Mr. David Kilgour talked with Chinese Embassy officials on Friday, June 23, 2006 about entering China to investigate the CCP’s live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners. The Chinese official was evasive and dodged responsibility.
Prior to Australian Prime Minister Howard’s upcoming state visit to China, several hundred Falun Gong practitioners and representatives from the “Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong” (CIPFG) gathered in front of Parliament House to peacefully appeal.
Hon. David Kilgour, J.D., former Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) of Canada, and David Matas, international human rights lawyer, have been seeking a fact-finding trip to China after they launched an investigation into organ seizing from Falun Gong prisoners in China.
The article stated that the vice president of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, met two Falun Gong practitioners during his trip to China and learned about the CCP’s crime of live organ removal. He strongly condemns the CCP’s systemic crimes.
As more people come to recognize the truth about Falun Gong and the nature of the Chinese Communist Party, some within the Chinese justice department have begun to stand up for Falun Gong. Reportedly, four hundred lawyers in China have publicly called for the reversal of the persecution of Falun Gong.
