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In the afternoon of August 20, 2003, Ouyang Ming, the brother of Australian citizen in Melbourne Ouyang Yu, also the most outstanding teacher of Huangguang Industry School was tortured to death for his persistence in practicing Falun Gong.
After being detained and tortured at the Wanjia Labor Camp for practicing Falun Gong, 56-year-old Ms. Zhao Chunying wrote about her ordeal and posted it on the Internet. After local police discovered what Ms. Zhao had revealed, she was arrested on April 15, 2003.
DR ZHANG Youlai tells his story to anybody who will listen. The scenario has become well-known: members of a Chinese family caught in the crackdown on Falun Gong or Falun Dafa ordered in 1999.
>From March 25 to 28, along with two of my friends from Shandong, we secretly investigated those persecution cases of Falun Gong practitioners. The results made me quite angry.
They lashed Mr. Sun’s fingers and toes with electrical wire, then passed a current through the wire to administer electric shock.
In the case of Jiang, the attorneys argued that the veteran Chinese politician essentially forfeited his immunity by violating his “nation’s laws and international norms,” through the persecution of China’s Falun Gong followers.
“Selfishness” penetrated my whole cultivation practice; recently I could see my selfishness in a lot of areas. Sometimes a word from other people or an event touched my remaining attachments and shook my heart, causing me to become angry.
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of new cases in Finland, Iceland, Belgium,
France, and Australia. It’s the latest tactic in an ongoing, high-profile campaign to draw
attention to China’s often brutal three-year-old crackdown on the group.
During World War II, Hitler made laws against Jews: he “legally” took away the right for Jews to go to college and become employed. Then “according to the law,” he sent Jews to concentration camps, where over six million died of persecution.
On September 20, this garden city held its 54th grand Flower Festival parade and thereby started the weeklong Flower Festival. This is the fourth time that Queensland practitioners participated in this grand celebration activity to the tens of thousands of local residents and tourists from different areas, including many from mainland China.
