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The Falun Dafa Association of NSW has contacted the Falun Gong practitioners in Villawood detention centre this morning and confirmed that they are all intact and were not involved in the self-harm yesterday.
TORONTO – As Jillian Ye braced herself to hear the contents of a secret document recently smuggled from China’s state security agency, she might have guessed she’d be listening to private information. What surprised her is that it was her own.
One time, I happened to accompany an official from China who was overseas with a fellow delegate to visit resorts. Along the way, we naturally started to talk about China’s current situation.
Many New Zealand Falun Gong practitioners believe they have been put on a ‘black list’ held by the Chinese government. Some practitioners have had their passport renewals and visa applications refused. Seven practitioners were arrested when they visited China in 1999.
In order to support my family, I started working for the newly formed Tianjin Bureau of State Security until February, 2005 when I managed to escape from China. I was in charge of Falun Gong issue, and dealt with other Qigong sects that were labeled cults by the Chinese government.
On June 11, 2005, New South Wales Falun Dafa Association held an anti-torture exhibit and a press conference in the Belmore Park located in downtown Sydney to further introduce facts about Falun Gong and the CCP’s suppression.
According to New South Wales Falun Dafa Association spokesperson Kay Rubacek, on March 16, 2002, the day before Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan visited the Australian capital, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Alexander Downer first issued certificates which prevent the use of banners and amplified music within 100 meters from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
Hao Fengjun, 32, a former police officer of the 610 Office of the Tianjin Bureau of State Security, sought political asylum in Australia after he fled China in February, 2005. He left his work because he no longer wanted to be involved in the persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.
Falun Gong practitioners have reasonable grounds to legally reinstate the freedom to display the banners and to use amplified sound in exercising their right to freedom of expression in Australia. The proceedings seek exemplary damages against Mr Downer and the return of Falun Gong banners that have been seized.
My wife and son went to visit our parents in China during the Chinese New Year holidays late in January this year. The day after my wife arrived in our hometown in southern China, two Chinese secret policemen came to my parents’ home.
