Information Centre
HUMAN rights activists yesterday launched a civil suit against a senior
Chinese official on a one-day visit to the island, charging him with crimes
against humanity and genocide.
Reliable sources in China indicate that more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners are being held at Jilin Prison, and that most of them undertook a hunger strike to protest the ongoing severe torture by prison guards there. The lives of those engaged in the peaceful appeal are likely in danger.
The perpetrators sent him to the
comprehensive unit of the City Central Hospital. Currently, Liu Chengjun is
unconscious, and the hospital is asking his family to take him home because
it does not want to take responsibility for his death.
The National Association of Lawyers, the largest lawyers association in Taiwan, passed a resolution and issued a public statement on October 25, 2003, to support worldwide legal initiatives to bring Jiang Zemin to justice.
Every September to October in Canberra, Australia, the city hosts a spring flower festival, Floriade, where many thousands of people come from all over Australia and the world to walk through the beautiful display gardens.
On Thursday 23rd of October, Falun Dafa practitioners at Wollongong University held a photo exhibition titled “Peaceful Journey of Falun Dafa”.
On Wednesday, 15 plaintiffs from the United States, Australia, Belgium and Spain filed a criminal lawsuit with Spain’s National Court charging former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin with directing genocide and torture of Falun Gong practitioners.
On Tuesday the Chinese embassy in Canberra wrote to newspapers to ask that they not publish letters or advertisements from “organisations for independence of Tibet or Falun Gong” during President Hu Jintao’s visit.
Falun Dafa
supporters formed a giant lotus flower on Bondi beach in Sydney yesterday morning
to highlight the peaceful appeal for the human rights crisis in China and to call
an end to the 4 year brutal persecution.
Falun Dafa Practitioner Chen Ruichang, the former Deputy Director of the General Editorial Department of Guangdong’s Television Station is illegally arrested again. His younger brother, Australian citizen Richard Chen, is appealing to people from all walks of life to contact the relative departments of the Chinese government in order to rescue his brother before it’s too late. We cannot stand by and allow another tragedy to occur–Ouyang Ming, the relative of another Australian citizen, was persecuted to death in China.
(AFDI) 23 October 2003 – Falun Gong and its practitioners have no interest in politics, even less can people of Chinese descent who practice Falun Gong be called “anti “ their own country of birth. Given the facts about the brutal persecution of people who practice Falun Gong, it is not hard to imagine what certain members of the Chinese government are trying to divert the world’s attention from.
