Media Reports

A CHINESE couple, accused by the government of faking a heart attack to stay
in Australia, will be deported to China where they could face persecution
because of their beliefs.

There has been a call for Australia's Immigration Minister to show compassion and stop the deportation of a Chinese couple who practise Falun Gong.

The Falun Dafa Association of New South Wales says a Chinese couple who are
being deported from Australia will certainly suffer persecution when they
return to their homeland.

The Falun Dafa meditation group is not planning to gatecrash Melbourne’s
Moomba Parade tomorrow despite losing a legal bid to join in the annual
event.

Lu said the former British colony has rapidly lost its shine
as
the Pearl of the Orient and a “beacon of freedom” since it was handed
back
to Beijing in 1997.

The assembly was to discuss matters regarding opposition to the legislation
of Hong Kong’s Basic Law Article 23 – a law that is considered a grave
threat to human rights that has aroused strong opposition from Hong Kong
people and human rights supporters around the world.

Following reports last month of the mistreatment of Taiwanese Falun Gong

members at the hands of Hong Kong immigration, Vice President Annette Lu

yesterday called on the public to view the
incident as a serious violation of human rights.

HONG KONG,(AFP) – Hong Kong Falungong practitioners on Sunday
slammed government treatment of a group of Taiwanese nationals allegedly

detained and treated inhumanely when they arrived for a group meeting.

About 800 followers of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in
mainland
China, marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday to protest a planned

anti-subversion law they say will jeopardize them.

Council sources told The Age that part of the reason was because Lord
Mayor John So was under pressure from the Chinese business community to
exclude the group. Cr Riley denied the suggestion.