Media Release
Recently, a seminar on organ harvesting was held at the New South Wales State Parliament. The seminar was hosted by Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Center. Former Canadian Secretary of State, David Kilgour and Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, were the keynote speakers.
The People’s Republic of China is an unpleasant dictatorship – with scant regard for democracy in Australia, it appears. Scant regard for democracy – and a few well placed agents of influence happy to collude with its human rights abuses.
Former Canadian secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific David Kilgour and vice-president of the European parliament Edward McMillan-Scott were invited to visit Australia. Their objective is to report to Australian political circles and the public about their investigations into the harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Further support for an end to organ harvesting came in a statement this week referring to the Matas-Kilgour report, when the U.S. National Kidney Foundation said it “is deeply concerned about recent allegations regarding the procurement of organs and tissues through coercive or exploitative practices abroad, or practices which violate worldwide human rights standards.”
Two senior parliamentarians – one from Europe, the other from Canada – have called on the United Nations to investigate startling allegations that the Chinese government killed thousands of Falun Gong practioners and harvested their organs for sale.
David Kilgour was a member of the Canadian Parliament for 26 years until January this year. During that time he served in many roles including Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific in the years 2002 and 2003. Prior to entering parliament Mr Kilgour practiced law, worked as Crown Prosecutor in Manitoba.
The amazing stories in this book are first-hand accounts of people from all walks of life who recovered from serious, or in many cases, terminal diseases through practicing Falun Dafa.
Chinese police detained Falun Gong practitioner Yuan Sheng, a veteran airline pilot at China Eastern Airlines based in Shanghai, on August 8, 2006 at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport prior to his flight to the United States. It was because he told one of the security personnel about the persecution of Falun Gong.
The Falun Gong spiritual movement has been allowed to use large banners in its protests outside the Chinese embassy in the Australian capital [Canberra], four years after they were banned by Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer.
In early August, Canberra practitioners held a 4-day “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” art exhibition at a bustling shopping centre in Queanbeyan to clarify the truth to local residents. The city is located on the border between New South Wales and Canberra. After the practitioners clarified the purpose of the exhibition, the shopping centre administration, the shopping centre offered the exhibition site for free.
