Media Release
Mr. Tang Xianhui, a former democracy activist and current Falun Gong practitioner of six years, has been blacklisted in China for his democratic activities several years ago and is currently facing severe persecution for his practice of Falun Gong if he is deported back to China.
On Sunday the 1st May at 1:30pm both ACT and NSW Falun Dafa practitioners will hold an appeal and press conference outside the Singapore High Commission in Canberra.
16 March 2005 marks the third year that Falun Gong practitioners have been banned from appealing in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. Australia is the only democratic country to restrict Falun Gong peaceful appeals.
John Deller, spokesperson for Falun Gong, received a call from DFAT on Tuesday 8 March, withdrawing the invitation for Falun Gong representatives to participate in the NGO meeting.
Australian Foreign Minister, Mr Alexander Downer, has used the Vienna Convention in an unprecedented manner regarding the Falun Gong appeals outside the Chinese Embassy, Canberra.
Next Stage of Australian lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for the persecution of Falun Gong. The civil case was filed in September 2004 by Australian artist and Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhang Cuiying for torture and inhuman treatment, which she received during an illegal 8-month imprisonment in Shenzhen, China in 1999-2000.
“Jiang’s horrific form of genocide is a terror that does not just destroy lives, but [aims to] destroy faith… It is a terror that must be brought to justice.” Georges-Henri Beauthier Renowned human rights lawyer who successfully prosecuted Pinochet and Rwandan genocide perpetrators and now assisting in the Falun Gong case.
Australian women and Falun Gong victims of persecution will speak of continuing escalation of violence in China at a press conference in Sydney. This is a call for an end to the genocide in China against Falun Gong practitioners, particularly women and children. In past 2 months a mission began to rescue orphans who have become the youngest victims of the genocidal policy.
The Waverly Council is hosting a series of events to bring attention to the hardships suffered by refugees who are escaping persecution in their homelands. This year’s theme at Bondi Pavilion is focusing on oppression suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China.
The historic legal action against Member of the Chinese State Council Chen Zhili has taken a major step forward. The preliminary judgment in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 3 was in favor of the Falun Gong practitioners in Ethiopia, on whose behalf attorneys brought the case.
