Media Release
In the larger picture, China has the highest number of executions in the world–not surprising in a country where 68 separate offences warrant the death penalty. The population is constantly monitored on the Internet, aided by western high-tech giants like Google, and the crackdowns on popular protests, whether for the return of seized land or simply religious freedom, can be brutal.
A parade and rally were held in Melbourne to support 16 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its related organizations. Falun Gong practitioners attended the activity and exposed the persecution against Falun Gong to the public.
“Why is it that compassionate people enjoy seeing mountains?” and “Why is it that wise people enjoy seeing water?”
Australian Senators Andrew Bartlett (Democrats) and Kerry Nettle (Greens) and MP Chris Bowen (Labor) jointly held a press conference outside the Australian Parliament Building to announce the establishment of the Australian Delegation of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG).
Guangdong Province is one of the most severe provinces in China in persecuting Falun Gong. Since July 20, 1999, Chen Shaoji actively participated in the persecution when he was Secretary of Guangdong Political and Judicial Committee and Director of the Provincial Bureau of Public Safety.
THE mayor of Maribyrnong, Janet Rice, will be included in a delegation to investigate
human rights abuses in China. The delegation has asked permission to investigate claims that Falun Gong practitioners in China are being imprisoned and killed, their organs harvested and sold.
Belgian Senator Patrik Vankrunkelsven from the Flemish Liberal Party announced this week that he recently conducted his own investigation of organ harvesting in China and was urged by hospital staff to come for an operation before February when supplies would decrease.
QUEENSLAND’S two major organ transplant hospitals have banned training Chinese surgeons because of concerns raised by the Falun Gong group.
International reports have suggested that of the 60,000 organ transplants the China Medical Organ Transplant Association recorded between 2000 and 2005, only 18,500 came from identifiable sources.
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) announced the founding of an investigation team in Victoria, Australia. The team plans to go to China’s Hebei, Jilin and Hubei Provinces for their investigations.
