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Paintings by traditional Chinese artist Zhang Cuiying aim to give viewers a sense of peace.A selection of paintings from work she has produced during the last 30 years will be on show from Monday, February 14 at the Momoya Restaurant in Chatswood as part of Chinese New Year celebrations and she has a very personal reason for promoting peace.
Despite a life-threatening illness, Jennifer Zeng was given fresh hope through practising Falun Gong. Soon after she discovered it, however, Falun Gong was banned in the most far-reaching suppression and persecution experienced in China since The Cultural Revolution.
‘My heart goes out to all victims of persecution not only of Falun Gong but all victims of the persecution world wide. The endurance of the human spirit in the darkness of persecution validates the pursuit of human truth more than ever.’
On 28 February 2005, a second Status Conference is scheduled for the landmark case in the Supreme Court of NSW where the defendants, Jiang Zemin and the 610 Office*, and the plaintiff are called to appear before the Registrar.
On the week starting from February 28th 2005, a student-run Falun Dafa Club participated at the University of Western Sydney’s Welcome Week.
Zeng’s account of her ordeal, Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong (Allen & Unwin, $29.95), will be released in Australia. It is the first book by a Falun Gong follower who has suffered imprisonment and torture — and it has been black-listed in China.
A SYDNEY woman allegedly imprisoned and tortured for eight months in China will be a test case for the Australian court system, the president of a Falun Gong group said today.
Next Stage of Australian lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for the persecution of Falun Gong. The civil case was filed in September 2004 by Australian artist and Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhang Cuiying for torture and inhuman treatment, which she received during an illegal 8-month imprisonment in Shenzhen, China in 1999-2000.
You have to wonder about China’s leaders. In the past couple of years, they’ve spent millions of dollars and a great deal of energy trying to play down their human rights abuses and persuade the rest of the world that China is a suitable country to host the world’s greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games.
On February 16, 2005, the “Uncompromising Courage” Art Exhibit was held in the York Hotel in downtown Sydney. More than 40 works of art by Falun Gong practitioners were displayed.
