Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia): Students take on big case
Torture is not an acceptable act in any society, and although I expect this
will be a long and involved case, it’s an amazing opportunity.
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Torture is not an acceptable act in any society, and although I expect this
will be a long and involved case, it’s an amazing opportunity.
The traditional paintings by Bankstown artist Zhang Cuiying were shown in
support of the Falun Gong a practice combining Taoist, Buddhist and new age
spiritual beliefs that is outlawed in China.
The Griffith University students will carry out research for the legal team
representing a practitioner of the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, who
alleges she was tortured in China.
After Luo Gan’s arrival in Finland, the media also published some letters from readers asking why the Finnish Parliament and Ministry for Foreign Affairs invited Luo Gan, a person with such a poor human rights record, to visit their country.
This case is far from over. In fact, it is just beginning. Like the plaintiffs in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala (2nd Cir. 1980), like the plaintiffs in Pinochet, the plaintiffs in Falun Gong v. Jiang Zemin shall prevail on appeal. History will soon show that the principles which comprise the plaintiffs claims shall prevail.
A Chinese Falun Gong practitioner, who is also an Australian citizen, campaigns against the murder of her husband by the Jiang regime in China. This is RFIs correspondent from Paris.
Lisa has joined with three other Australian-based Falun Dafa practitoners,
Myrna Mack, Alan Fang and Helen Liu, in a 900-kilometre journey from Sydney
to Melbourne to raise awareness of Chinese president Jiang Zemin’s campaign
of persecution of practitioners.
A criminal lawsuit was filed today in Helsinki, Finland charging the head of Chinas Gestapo-like 6-10 Office, Luo Gan, with crimes of genocide and torture.
The Chinese authority’s reason for persecuting Falun Gong is that it is a force the Chinese authorities are unable to control, as well as the fact that its numbers exceeded the membership of the Chinese Communist Party. Therefore it was regarded as a threat.
Hong Kong’s government on Friday scrapped plans to introduce controversial security legislation which sparked massive protests and triggered the territory’s worst political crisis since the 1997 handover.