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Shortly after being warned to retract a second open letter about
his Falun Gong cases, Gao received a new summons from the judicial bureau. “I’m not sure how much time I have left to conduct my work,” Gao said. “But
I will use every minute to expose the barbaric tactics of our leadership.”
The Falun Gong spiritual movement seems innocuous anough but the Chinese
Government is torturing thousands of practitioners, claims its WA followers.
NORMAN AISBETT reports.
On Nov. 25, Falun Gong practitioners Liu Jizhi and Han Yuzhi were raped while being held at their local police station. Such rapes are not aberrations. Chinese policemen are encouraged to use “all means” to force adherents of Falun Gong to give up this practice, and rape has repeatedly been employed as a means of terror.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald’s China correspondent, Hamish MacDonald, won a Walkley Award on December 1 for his article on Falun Gong published in October 2004.
On Tuesday 6 December 2005, a motion will be moved in the Senate by Senator Bob Brown, that the Senate to request the government to seek an end to the persecution of Falun Gong members in China and to call on the government to lift restrictions on Australian Falun Gong practitioners’ peaceful appeal outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
The persecution of Falun Gong does not just happen within China, even Australian citizens are experiencing it. Australian Falun Gong practitioners have been receiving all kinds of harassment and interference in Australia as former First Secretary of Sydney Chinese Consulate Mr Chen Yonglin exposed to the media.
A country without democracy and human rights is not only a disaster to its people, but also a threat to the whole world.
I would like to ask your support for this couple by exposing your concern to the officials in charge of the deportation. Please help to allow Mr and Mrs Li Yishu to stay in Australia until the persecution has finished.
I am writing to you in regard to two matters, which touch my heart very deeply.
We are Australian citizens who came to Australia after the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre. We came here because we were disappointed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and we were here for freedom.
