Media Release
Zhang Dejiang is among a group of top government officials in China who have been involved in implementing and sustaining a campaign of eradication of Falun Gong practitioners in China, particularly in Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces.
The Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) associations of Australia have formally requested the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs to refuse entry to Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Guangdong Province.
Since 1999 when the dictator Jiang Zemin initiated the bloody persecution of Falun Gong in China, the CCP has relied upon state power and an array of CCP terrorist mechanisms under its control to suppress innocent Falun Gong practitioners to the greatest extent possible. Under Jiang and the CCP’s menace, many province- and city-level officials have acted as ringleaders or collaborators in the torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners. Using their official positions, they have participated in this persecution to varying degrees, not only as initiators, co-conspirators and ringleaders, but also as aiders, abetters, and other types of accomplices.
Wednesday 20 July 2005, marks six years since the persecution of Falun Gong began in China in July 1999. The death toll and number of cases of torture and forced labour has continued to increase every month, making the persecution of Falun Gong the most serious issue in China today.
On Monday 18 July 2005, a Directions Hearing will be held in the Supreme Court of the ACT. The case will be heard in court from 9am and a press conference will be held outside the court immediately after the hearing. The plaintiffs and lawyer for the plaintiffs will be available for interview.
A motion will be raised by the Democrats in the Senate in relation to Falun Gong. A brief information package with the most up-to-date information on the ongoing persecution in China and also its effect on Australians will be available.
The Falun Dafa Association of NSW has contacted the Falun Gong practitioners in Villawood detention centre this morning and confirmed that they are all intact and were not involved in the self-harm yesterday.
Falun Gong practitioners have reasonable grounds to legally reinstate the freedom to display the banners and to use amplified sound in exercising their right to freedom of expression in Australia. The proceedings seek exemplary damages against Mr Downer and the return of Falun Gong banners that have been seized.
The Falun Dafa Associations in Australia call upon the Australian Government to offer immediate asylum to Chinese officials Mr Chen Yonglin and Mr. Hao Fengjun and to fully examine allegations of Chinese spies operating in Australia.
In response to the recent allegations of senior Chinese Diplomat Mr Chen Yonglin that the Chinese Communist Party has over a thousand Chinese secret agents in Australia, victims of these secret agents will speak at a press conference today.
