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TIANJIN Mayor Dai Xianglong’s four-day tour of Melbourne was briefly marred by a small group of protesters last Tuesday night. The protesters were waving signs and banners calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong meditation practitioners in Tianjin, China.
After the success of launching Jennifer Zeng’s book “Witnessing History – One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong” (Allen & Unwin) on the Sunshine Coast in early April, Falun Gong practitioners once again invited the author to attend further activities in late May to further share her story in China.
June 1 is International Children’s Day, when children around the world are celebrating their own holiday. On this very day and under the same heaven, however, an unbelievable tragedy is happening to a large group of children in China.
Mr. Tang Xianhui, a former democracy activist and current Falun Gong practitioner of six years, has been blacklisted in China for his democratic activities several years ago and is currently facing severe persecution for his practice of Falun Gong if he is deported back to China.
This wicked party has always relied on deception and hiding to enforce its ruling. Even in the Internet age, they still try to blind the people through information blockage and message censoring. Its evil nature will never change. The persecution against Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience helped us see its true nature even more clearly. What it fears the most is the people’s learning the truth, the people’s awakening, and the Party’s ultimate loss of political power.
The report of Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir on freedom of religion or belief for the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights exposed and condemned the fact that the Chinese communist regime abuses the party-appointed committees to control traditional religious activities or belief.
The Melbourne council has been questioned about the integrity of a China official who has sanctioned torture and killing in his area of jurisdiction.
Several years ago, when clarifying the truth of Falun Gong over the Internet, I often sensed unspoken hatred from some Internet surfers incited by the propaganda and deceit of the Party. Some people, unprovoked, would say “Go to hell!” to a person whom they had never met nor had any conflict with. From such actions, one can see the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s distortion of human nature.
Mr. Jiang Renzheng, a Chinese national, had applied for political refugee status for practicing Falun Gong in Germany but was rejected and repatriated to China. Less than one month after he returned to China, he suffered persecution and was sentenced to three years of forced labor.
A western practitioner took a photo as a record. On return to his Sydney home, however, he found that a Falun clearly shows in the middle of the top part of the photo.
