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A painter from Hunan province, arrested in a nationwide pre-Olympic roundup of Falun Gong adherents, died the day before the opening ceremonies from injuries incurred in custody. Detained in March, an emaciated Mr. Hu Heping (???) from Yueyang city died August 7, 2008 according to recent reports received by The Falun Dafa Information Center. He was 55 years old.
If this persecution is so severe, why is it so rarely in the news and why isn’t more being done about it?
It was 2:00 am and we were sitting on the floor of a Bangkok slum. We had a flight to catch the next morning, but after interviewing Falun Gong refugees for a week we still couldn’t pull away from what they were telling us.
Often in the news but rarely understood, Falun Gong is regularly associated
with Chinese human rights issues. Leeshai Lemish gives his understanding of what
Falun Gong practitioners actually believe I would have laughed if ten years ago
you told me that my search for a meditation practice would land me on Beijing’s
blacklist.
Stephen Crittenden interviewed Erping Zhang, a Mason Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he specialises in China’s censorship of the Internet.
China’s human rights record is again under scrutiny, this time at an International Transplantation Congress in Sydney. A Canadian human rights lawyer says he has new evidence of forced organ removals from prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Leeshai Lemish looks at the history and causes of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against Falun Gong.
American Dr Erping Zhang and Canadian David Matas will be in Australia from 4th to 17th August and will present at various functions in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra on issues relating to China’s Internet control, abusive organ sourcing, human rights, religious freedom and the Olympics.
With the International Olympic Committee having admitted prior consent to the Chinese authorities to block access for foreign reporters to certain websites (article), the Falun Dafa Information Center, in cooperation with Internet freedom activists, hereby offers journalists in Beijing a resource to gain free access to information during their stay in China.
July 20, 2008 marks the ninth year that Falun Gong practitioners have worked against the persecution. Practitioners have remained uncompromising and persevering in clarifying the truth and calling for an end to the persecution. Many people have shown support for Falun Gong, some by joining the practitioners in holding up display boards.
