Lighting Candles for an End to Torture
According to an incomplete investigation, more than 40 practitioners have been abducted and 3 practitioners have been tortured to death in just a few days.
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According to an incomplete investigation, more than 40 practitioners have been abducted and 3 practitioners have been tortured to death in just a few days.
TANG Yiwen’s life is confirmed to be in a critical condition according to a telephone conversation to Australia this morning from her father, Mr Liang.
Just one month ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Convention this March, Ms Tang Yiwen was abducted on Monday night in Guangzhou City, China for refusing to give up her practice of Falun Gong.
Between November 2003 and January 2004, reliable sources in China reported details on 64 Falun Gong practitioners who died from severe torture suffered in Chinese detention centers and labour camps. Deaths from torture and abuse were reported in 17 provinces throughout China, from Heilongjiang to Guangxi; from Sichuan to Beijing.
It is in France’s own interest to make up for any damage done by this incident, not just to Falun Gong, but to the freedoms and basic rights that should have been protected within France’s borders for all its citizens, residents and peaceful visitors.
The claims put forth by Xinhua in this story follow a pattern of fabricated reports that have under the orders of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin been faithfully churned out by Chinas state-run media over the last four-plus years in an attempt to legitimize the persecution against Falun Gong, or at least dull the interest of would-be critics around the world.
After 21 months of torture and abuse, one of the men who broadcast programs over Chinas state-run airwaves exposing the systematic cover-up of atrocities against Falun Gong practitioners died Friday morning in police custody.
(AFDI) 23 October 2003 – Falun Gong and its practitioners have no interest in politics, even less can people of Chinese descent who practice Falun Gong be called anti their own country of birth. Given the facts about the brutal persecution of people who practice Falun Gong, it is not hard to imagine what certain members of the Chinese government are trying to divert the worlds attention from.
Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners will form a gigantic lotus flower on the beach, highlighting the peaceful appeal for the human rights crisis in China and to call an end to the 4 year brutal persecution.
SYDNEY (FDI) – Petals of Peace is an attempt to raising awareness of the children
who are suffering injustice in the face of genocide. 3-year-old – Fadu who is
a survivor of persecution of Falun Gong in China, has inspired this project.