Media Reports
I applaud the Noosa News for tackling a front-page report, “Too strong, too real”, on the recent Falun Gong Art Exhibition “Uncompromising Courage” and for clarifying the truth of the ongoing persecution against millions of innocent citizens inside Mainland China.
The Chinese Communist Party has been carrying out massive secret arrests across the country, spanning several provinces and many cities, according to numerous sources in China. The arrests are targeting anyone believed to have an affiliation with Falun Gong, and witnesses say that some cities are being controlled under martial law conditions.
“Witness” Book Launch Meets with Tremendous Public Support on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Mr Law, who has lived in Australia for 25 years, said he had his own horrible experience with China three years ago when he was kidnapped and interrogated for three days and nights.
Director of the PIAC, Robin Banks, said the irony of the religious group being excluded from a meeting about human rights obligations, for exercising their right to protest, could not be ignored.
Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife encountered severe persecution shortly after they went back China. Because they practice Falun Gong, when they were in Germany, they filed application for asylum status there. Unfortunately, their application was turned down and they had to go back China.
The Federal government should reverse a decision to prevent members of a religious group protesting outside the Chinese Embassy, the Australian Greens said today.
Describing the Chinese Government’s brutal persecution of tens of thousands of followers of Falun Gong – a pacifist and apolitical movement based on the tenets of truth, compassion and forbearance – Zeng’s book inspires such outrage that readers will probably feel the need to research the situation for themselves to see if the author has exaggerated the scale of the tragedy or the outrageousness of the Government’s actions.
ONCE a month, Alexander Downer signs a certificate banning adherents of Falun Gong from displaying banners and making excessive noise outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has locked a non-government
organisation out of human rights talks because it planned to protest outside the
building where the discussions are taking place.
