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Four Falun Gong members have been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for
breaking into cable television systems in western China to broadcast videos
promoting the banned spiritual group, a court official said Wednesday.
It is important for people to realise that the Chinese Government continues to support a crackdown on a range of political movements, particularly Falun Gong.
On December 29, 2002, Wei-Jao Chen, the President of National Taiwan University attended a Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference and became the first leader in the academic field to speak at a Falun Dafa conference.
Reports from China indicate that 29-year-old Xu Song is currently being detained and tortured at the First Detention Centre in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Mr. Song went on a hunger strike that, as of January 3, has lasted more than 50 days.
In order to enrich Chinese culture in Australia, and to celebrate the onset of 2003 with people of Chinese extraction, volunteer Falun Dafa practitioners and Tongsong Music & Culture Promotions Inc. hosted a free variety performance. Entitled “Music of the Spring”, the event was successfully held at Marana auditorium, Hurstville entertainment centre, on the evening of Saturday 4th of January.
Lawyers have no place at the pinnacle of power. None of the nine
Standing Committee members of China’s all-powerful Politburo is a lawyer;
they are all engineers. Only six of China’s 3,000 national legislators have
a background in law.
On New Year’s Eve of each year, tens of thousands of citizens would gather to watch the show. The local practitioners decided to utilize this opportunity to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises and distribute truth-clarifying materials by the Yarra River. Practitioners also wanted to welcome the New Year in such a meaningful way.
At one particular school her class consists of all mainland Chinese students who recently arrived in Australia. She said she feels sorry for them as she can see how they are suppressed and how they are “brainwashed” in China.
A former prisoner of the Chinese camps says she has manufactured Toy rabbits for Nestle during her detention. After investigation, the Swiss multinational denies, but wants to guarantee that no use of forced labour is done by its subcontractors.
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