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The Griffith University students will carry out research for the legal team
representing a practitioner of the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, who
alleges she was tortured in China.
From August 4 to August 31, 2003, an exhibition entitled “An Original Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in Memory of Qi Baishi’s 140th Birthday” was held in the Hurstville area of Sydney. Ms. Dai and her son, both Falun Dafa practitioners organized this exhibition, displaying nearly 100 precious pieces of art by renowned artists.
Those who were sent to the labour camps together with me were teachers, doctors, farmers who got rich from hard work, engineers and company managers. There were quite a few people with Phd or Master degrees, and even professors and tutors of Phd students.
The labour camps were continuously rebuilt and new equipment added since the Jiang regime invested a lot of money in the systems of the prisons and policemen. On the surface one could see the following kinds of change:
Australian Falun Dafa practitioners send 600 individual letters in over ten different languages to the Belgium Prime Minister and Belgium Embassy in Australia in support of the Belgium lawsuit against former Chinese Communist leader, Jiang Zemin and two of his senior-most accomplices, Luo Gan and Li Lanqing, for genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of torture.
After Luo Gan’s arrival in Finland, the media also published some letters from readers asking why the Finnish Parliament and Ministry for Foreign Affairs invited Luo Gan, a person with such a poor human rights record, to visit their country.
Mr. Zhang Xiaohong was only 29 years old when he died. Because of the tortures, his weight dropped from over 60 kg to approximately 32 kg. When it was obvious that he was extremely weak, he was released and his family was called to the camp on May 13, 2003 to take him home. He died at 7:00 p.m. on August 4.
While I was hurriedly walking into the Square, I saw a fire in the distance, and it being put out. I also saw a woman who had been on fire beaten down to the ground by a man, and another person standing on the side, leisurely taking photos and recording it all with a video camera.
This case is far from over. In fact, it is just beginning. Like the plaintiffs in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala (2nd Cir. 1980), like the plaintiffs in Pinochet, the plaintiffs in Falun Gong v. Jiang Zemin shall prevail on appeal. History will soon show that the principles which comprise the plaintiffs’ claims shall prevail.
The precious Chinese people stopped in their steps and attentively looked at the truth-clarifying posters. They were astonished to learn about the persecution in China and the fact that Jiang is being sued in the U.S. and Belgium. Many people eagerly asked for truth-clarifying literature and had various questions.
