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This wall of colorful banners was held by Falun Gong practitioners, who were supporting their legal action in the court to stop Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, from signing certificates each month, that restrict the Falun Gong practitioners from peacefully appealing outside of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
Truth, Compassion and Forbearance is a 40-piece art show depicting the trauman experienced by devotees of the controversial Chinese meditation technique, now practised by 100 million people worldwide.
Mr Chen, in his written statement, said the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Falun Gong was a systematic and broad-based campaign.
Former Chinese Diplomat Testifies in Congress, Provides Details of Chinese Communist Party’s “War” against Falun Gong
Chen Yonglin left on Tuesday for Los Angeles, where he will attend a US Congress hearing “to testify about Falun Gong and human rights abuses in China”, The Australian newspaper reports.
Republican Henry Hyde, the Chairman of the US congressional sub-committee on global human rights, has invited Chinese defector, Mr. Chen Yonglin, a former Ist Secretary at the Sydney Chinese Consulate, to testify before the Committee, about Chinese spy networks and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treats Falun Gong practitioners.
One of the two plaintiffs in the case, Zhang Cuiying, told more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners protesting outside the court that the certificates signed by Mr Downer limit freedom of speech.
Mr Chen has produced documents he claims are from the Chinese
consulate-general in Sydney, including the file of one Chinese-Australian
dissident and a list of almost 300 Falun Gong supporters which was sent by
the former Chinese ambassador and marked “very urgent”.
The applicants claimed that Mr. Downer’s actions impaired their right to freedom of expression in Australia and were accordingly invalid. They said they had suffered personal injury and material loss because of the actions of the Chinese Communist Party and had a right to peacefully protest in a dignified manner with banners and loudspeakers in a way that did not intrude upon the Chinese mission.
Chinese spies are closely monitoring New Zealand groups which the Chinese government fears. Recently, Falun Gong Practitioners interviewed Mr. Hao Fengjun, one of three Chinese defectors in Australia regarding Chinese espionage activities overseas.
