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Canadian Falun Gong practitioners won an important court motion on Monday which clears the way for judgment on the merits of an historic $20 million civil lawsuit against the former head of China, Jiang Zemin, and four other officials for torture.
Australian MP Andrew Bartlett recently joined the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG). He stated in an interview that the Australian government is obliged to take more actions in the face of the allegations of the CCP’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and make sure the public learns all facts.
In the letter, the Falun Dafa Association of Australia stressed that they were very much concerned about the two trials that Singapore authorities initiated against Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore. They think that the charges do not have any legal bases or rationality.
Falun Gong practitioners held an activity in front of the Australian Foreign Ministry. They also held a press conference to call on the Australia government to take note of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) atrocities of live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners, and ask for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
EVERY now and then, uncomfortable realities intrude on the serious business of making money in China. At a news conference in Canberra this week following the 10th Australia-China human rights dialogue, the questions immediately turned to Falun Gong, the spiritual movement with tens of thousands of followers who have disappeared, been rounded up in labour camps, tortured and in some cases killed.
A legal complaint filed in Boston charges directors of organ transplant centers in China with overseeing forced removal of body parts such as hearts, livers, and kidneys from living bodies of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners.
Canberra Falun Gong practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Canberra to protest the seven years of persecution.
Ms. Zeng Aihua, a 57-year-old Hong Kong resident and Falun Gong practitioner from Shanghai, was illegally arrested from her home on May 22, 2006. Shanghai’s Pudong New District Police Department carried out the arrest. They also ransacked her home. Zeng Aihua is currently being detained in the Pudong New District Detention Center.
Chinese authorities kill political prisoners and harvest their healthy body parts for use in organ transplants, two Canadian jurists have [concluded]. When will Australia protest?
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong has lasted for seven years. This persecution can be summarized in two words: fabrication and violence. Ever since the establishment of the CCP, it has used fabrication and violence as the means to take power and sustain totalitarian rule. In the persecution of Falun Gong, the CCP is utilizing its accumulated criminal experience of fabrication and violence.
