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Greens councillor David Risstrom, who voted against excluding Falun Dafa in
a six-to-three council vote in February, said that limiting community
involvement because of a group’s political affiliation was a dangerous
precedent.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found the council
discriminated against Falun Dafa by banning it from last year’s Moomba
parade.
Judge John Bowman found Melbourne City Council had breached the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 when it refused the Falun Dafa Association of Victoria a place in the March Moomba parade.
MELBOURNE City Council has been ordered to apologise to spiritual group
Falun Dafa for refusing to allow them to take part in the city’s annual
Moomba parade.
Why is it that the police spare no effort engaging in such inhumane conduct? First of all, they are also victims of the lies and hatred created and instigated by Jiang and his followers.
I am a member of the militia. On September 27, 2002, we were ordered to help with a nursing and caring job. Only when we got to the destination, did we realize that we were supposed to help with a “Legal Study Class” and our task was to “transform” the Falun Gong practitioners there.
Chinese authorities are sending prison directors from around China to study model labor camps that have reportedly been effective in “reeducating” or “transforming” Falun Gong practitioners through torture and brainwashing methods.
I was born in Beijing and grew up in a relatively affluent family. My parents are both well-known musicians in China. In 1994, after graduating from college, I joined a foreign company in Beijing and was well paid.
Chipkar says he has proof that Chinese Consulate officials in Toronto held a hate rally to condemn Falun Gong. They sent hate materials to government officials across Canada asking them to not support constituents who practise Falun Gong in Canada and they have held a hate pictorial display in their visa office for the past year.
Attending government officials and human rights activists had conversations with practitioners to learn more about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. After learning about their evening performance, and said that inviting Falun Gong practitioners to participate this year fit the theme of Human Rights Day perfectly.
