Media Reports
According to outside reports as well as our own organization’s verification, the Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners wishes to make the following statement regarding the upcoming trial of three Falun Gong practitioners who are students of Qinghua University.
At the turn of the century, human beings are again experiencing a test and we are forced to ask if genocide exists in today’s society? Given the preponderous amount of evidence we must answer yes.
Frank Lu, director of the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, said that Liu’s death was being covered up and local officials had been told not to reveal any details surrounding it.
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 China’s 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.
MEMBERS of the Falun Dafa spiritual movement today gathered outside the
Chinese Embassy in Canberra to protest the death of a man in Chinese police
custody.
According to reports from Mainland China, Mr. Liu Zhiyan, a computer science professor in Mudanjiang City, and his wife Shen Chunhua have recently been sentenced to ten years in prison. Their three-year-old son and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter have been left without parents.
Greens councillor David Risstrom, who voted against excluding Falun Dafa in
a six-to-three council vote in February, said that limiting community
involvement because of a group’s political affiliation was a dangerous
precedent.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found the council
discriminated against Falun Dafa by banning it from last year’s Moomba
parade.
Judge John Bowman found Melbourne City Council had breached the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 when it refused the Falun Dafa Association of Victoria a place in the March Moomba parade.
MELBOURNE City Council has been ordered to apologise to spiritual group
Falun Dafa for refusing to allow them to take part in the city’s annual
Moomba parade.
