SMH: Falun Gong Mark Hu’s Visit with Vigil
Members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong will hold a candlelight vigil outside
the Chinese embassy in Canberra to coincide with the visit of China’s president
Hu Jintao.
Media Release
Members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong will hold a candlelight vigil outside
the Chinese embassy in Canberra to coincide with the visit of China’s president
Hu Jintao.
Falun Gong and other groups have a regular presence outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra, where they protest against Beijing’s alleged human rights abuses.
The Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) Association of NSW is urging the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, Kevin Andrews, to deny Chinese Commerce Minister, Bo Xilai, entry to Australia. He is expected to arrive in Sydney on 5 September for the APEC forum.
The Australia Department of Justice sent Ms. Zhang an official letter confirming that her legal complaint had been delivered to Yan Nan, a staff member at the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. This case finally started to progress recently.
U.S. Falun Gong practitioner travels to Australia to urge APEC nations to help release her father, illegally detained in a labour camp for 8 years.
“We’re not protesting against APEC, we’re not protesting against the Howard Government, we just want people to realise thousands of Falun Gong people are held in camps in China and they’re killed for organ transplants,” said Falun Gong spokeswoman Kay Rubacek.
During the time of APEC meetings in Sydney, Falun Gong practitioners from around Australia request that our Prime Minister, John Howard, openly urge the Chinese Communist Party delegates at APEC ’07 that Australians want the Chinese Communist regime to immediately and unconditionally end the persecution of Falun Gong and release all Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.
The 65th Annual International Council of Psychologists Conference was held at the Westgate Hotel in San Diego from August 11 to 14, 2007. Psychologists from around the world shared their results probing the relationship between mental health and environment. The scope of research is to promote multi-cultural relations and peace between ethnic groups, as well as hope and health.
The awarding of the 2008 Olympic Games to China was an acknowledgment of the country’s dynamic economic progress and its emergence as a world power to be reckoned with. Implicit in this decision was the understanding that China would prove itself worthy of the International Olympic Committee’s vote of confidence by joining the community of nations that promote and protect human rights.
Global Human Rights Torch Relay will travel through 100 cities around the world. Its purpose is to call on the international community to focus on brutal violations of human rights and the Olympics spirit by the Chinese Communist regime, in order to stop such crimes and not let the 2008 Olympic Games that symbolizes peace and freedom of humanity become the “Bloody Harvest Games.”