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The United States has named eight countries as the world’s worst violators of religious liberty. China and its neighbours joined Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Eritrea as nations designated as “countries of particular concern”, the State Department said.
And for that Jane Dai says her husband was kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered. Mrs Dai fled China in 2001 fearing for her life with her nine-month-old daughter after her husband was arrested and sent to a detention centre for practising the traditional Chinese spiritual discipline, Falun Gong.
A FESTIVAL will be held to raise money to help rescue Falun Gong orphans and spread the word of the persecution happening in China.
Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Guangdong Province was served today with a summons from the Supreme Court of NSW for the crime of torture.
A Chinese lawyer who criticised government suppression of followers of the banned Falun Gong movement and sought to represent private oil investors in a landmark lawsuit against the state has been ordered to suspend his practice for a year.
An Open Letter to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao from Lawyer Gao Zhisheng
Before I could sit down and send my greetings to you, my two fellow compatriots, out of solicitude for another group of our common fellow compatriots, Falun Gong believers, I went to several places outside Beijing to investigate the real situation about Falun Gong believers suffering a new wave of systematic, large-scale, organized illegal persecution. During my days outside Beijing, I was hiding, laying low like a thief. That’s why many in the outside world spread the hearsay that I was “missing.”
This new round of continued, systematic, large-scale, and organized brutal persecution targeting our fellow Chinese citizens who believe in Falun Gong is an ongoing reality, not only revealed in recent letters addressed to us from different regions, but also a reality we personally witnessed during our trip outside Beijing. As a Chinese citizen, and as a lawyer, I am willing to bear any legal responsibility for witnessing and publicizing these facts.
Judicial authorities in Beijing have shut down the law firm of a prominent civil rights lawyer after he refused to withdraw an open letter urging President Hu Jintao to respect freedom of religion and stop persecuting members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
Zhang Dejiang is among a group of top government officials in China who have been involved in implementing and sustaining a campaign of eradication of Falun Gong practitioners in China, particularly in Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces.
The Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) associations of Australia have formally requested the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs to refuse entry to Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Guangdong Province.
At present, Falun Dafa is being persecuted in Mainland China. Dafa practitioners have withstood enormous pressure under this unprecedented tribulation and made it through several years. There are many heroic and inspiring stories of Dafa practitioners. This article is a review from the historical perspective and discovers how we had steadfastly cultivated ourselves in our past lives.
