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Ms Zhang has been away from her Bankstown home in Australia on a world tour since
May 2001. She has exhibited in over 40 countries and well over 100 cities. Being
in Australia for just over one month, she has already begun her latest tour, exhibiting
her traditional Chinese paintings in different districts throughout New South
Wales.
ARTIST Zhang Cuiying is all too familiar with suppression so it’s hardly
surprising she found a ban on painting “like a death sentence”.
The Bankstown woman was imprisoned in China in 1999 for practising Falun
Dafa, a form of meditation.
After Falun Gong practitioners in Belgium filed a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin, Falun Gong practitioners in Germany prepared to use German law to file their own lawsuit against the Chinese dictator.
Cuiying and her lawyer will sue Jiang at the UN for violating human rights. Zhang Cuiying’s lawyer expressed that they were also preparing to sue Jiang Zemin in the International Courts.
A line of Falun Gong practitioners take part in an early morning ceremony, Saturday, April 26, 2003, to commemorate the persecution of Falun Gong followers in China. About 100 Falun Gong members gathered on the beach to participate in meditation and exercises during the ceremony.
With the help of world-renowned lawyer and human rights campaigner Geoffrey Robertson, QC, I am filing a lawsuit with the United Nations against Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese leader.
Robertson’s involvement should strengthen Zhang’s case and would
ensure it is likely to become a benchmark fight against the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners.
“The plan is that Geoffrey and I will do some things in New York in the lead
up to it. There’s also a possibility that there may be a separate action in
the international court of justice so that may also require us to make an
appearance in Geneva.”
A Queensland lawyer is preparing a petition to go before the United Nations
(UN) on behalf of a Sydney woman who claims she was persecuted in China.
An Australian Falun Gong practitioner is mounting a
case in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights against former Chinese
president Jiang Zemin.
