Media Reports
John Fitzgerald, a professor in Asia-Pacific studies at the Australian National University, told a federal parliamentary committee that many in leadership positions in China felt the Government’s banning of Falun Gong and its subsequent persecution was a terrible mistake.
A GROUP of North Shore Falun Gong practitioners plans to pressure the federal government to expose the trade in human organs in China.
One concerned reader from Changchun City pointed out that according to general medical knowledge, if 100 people who died in the world on that day were found, only one of these people’s hearts would be a match. The reader wanted to know how they could drive to a place 31 miles away within one day and find a donated heart?
Dr Zhao, a business lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, practises falun gong at Burwood Park every morning. LUCY Zhao is living in fear and has grave concerns for several family members living in China.
GRAVE concerns are held for falun gong practitioners imprisoned in China and at risk of being executed for their organs.
“It is an ethical problem. When it is run by the state it becomes like ‘the ultimate tax.’ Once dead, the body is not yours to give but the states to decide.” “Our concern is that tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are being kept there as organ banks.”
HORNSBY resident Fuying Li, who left China in 2000 after harassment by police for practising Falun Gong, continues to protest for the rights of practitioners in her homeland.
FALUN Gong practitioners staged a silent protest outside the office of Warringah federal MP Tony Abbott yesterday afternoon.
WENYI WANG acted rudely when she yelled and waved a banner at visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao during his White House appearance Thursday. She waved a yellow banner and shouted in Chinese: “Stop oppressing the Falun Gong,” “Your time is running out,” and “Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime.” She also yelled to Mr. Bush, “Stop him from persecuting Falun Gong!”
During President Bush’s welcoming ceremony for the visiting Chinese Communist Chairman, according to media, various issues arose one after another, and the largest one turned all the cameras from Hu Jintao to a Chinese woman.
