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DISGRACEFUL. Nothing else can be said about the decision to exclude the Chinese meditation movement Falun Gongs prized dance performance from the festival, Asian Comments that started yesterday in Copenhagen.
Harrington specifically mentioned that several hundred members of the peaceful Falun Gong religious movement have died in detention as a result of torture or mistreatment by the Chinese government.
Violation of all 33 UN Human Rights Declarations Cited
Citizens and residents from Australia, Canada, USA, France, Ireland, Hong Kong and China have jointly submitted a legal case against Communist Party Head Jiang Zemin, and two other top Chinese officials, to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the International Criminal Court, for crimes committed in instigating and carrying out the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
U.S. and Canadian Family Members Released in Early October. Last Tuesday, Mr. Shi suddenly found himself on the phone with his mother. “This has been a very traumatic experience, but she seemed to be in relatively good spirits,” Mr. Shi said.
During the Israel Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference, Maariv, one of the most influential newspapers in Israel, interviewed a practitioner from Australia, Ms. Dai Zhizhen and her daughter Fadu.
From October 9 to 10, 2002, Australian Falun Gong practitioner’s personal painting show was held in Dallas City Hall. The visitors not only enjoyed the beautiful painting but also became to know the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and were shocked at the facts.
An official admitted, “We have received various kinds of information from China.” When the practitioners asked whether it included the “blacklist,” the Icelandic officials did not deny it.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:00 — 2:00 p.m. in Washington, DC, a diverse coalition of non-governmental human rights, religious freedom, and women’s organizations, labour unions, and student groups will hold a rally to focus attention on human rights atrocities in China and to protest Chinese Communist leader Jiang Zemin’s upcoming visit to the United States in October.
I write on behalf of Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) practitioners in New South Wales, Australia.
We respectfully ask for your consideration to the plight of Yoko Kaneko, resident of Japan and wife of Atusi Kaneko of Niigata County as she is now suffering in a labor camp in China.
The Chief of Police stated unequivocally, “We have investigated Falun Gong and it has no problem. Falun Gong is legal in Indonesia.”
