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The proposed legislation will cover a range of complicated and sensitive issues. We look to the Hong Kong Government to allow sufficient opportunity and time for full public consultation to allay concerns that basic freedoms will be affected, and to enable balanced and carefully drafted legislation to emerge.
A compilation of letters showing the global sentiment against Hong Kong’s Article 23.
FALUN Gong practitioners Lucy Liu and Jennifer Zeng are caught in the shadows between diplomacy and human rights.
From Ms Liu’s Pascoe Vale flat, the pair last week described how relatives in China have been caught up in the Government’s crackdown on the Falun Gong movement. Like other followers who have fled the crackdown, the women are lobbying their new country’s government to pressure China on its human rights abuses.
Wollongong is the first stop on his journey, where he will be visiting and asking local MP’s to sign the petition in support of his desperate and determined plea to the Australian Government to have his simple wishes delivered to his loved fiancee. Mr Lee went through a long and arduous journey to arrive in Wollongong around 9pm on Monday night.
US Assistant Secretary of State Lorne Craner is leading the 11th round of the human rights dialogue and will meet the chief justice of China’s supreme court and other high-ranking bureaucrats.
Subjects up for discussion include workers’ rights, religious freedom, Falun Gong and issues related to Tibet and Xinjiang.
18 December 2002, (Sydney Falun Dafa Information Centre) – December 24 marks the end of a public appeal for the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, expression, association, and the right to peaceful assembly, currently being challenged in Hong Kong.
To draw attention to his fiancee and other Falun Gong followers’ plight, Mr Lee arrived in Wollongong yesterday on the first leg of a cycling trip to Canberra.
At the time her child was ill and needed medical attention. In front of the 10 year-old child, the police twisted his mother’s arm, slapped her in the face and even tied her up. This shocked the child so much that he would not stop crying.
At least 12,000 demonstrators marched on Sunday to protest
a planned anti-subversion law they fear will undermine Hong Kong’s freedoms
and put the territory more firmly under the thumb of mainland China.
It was the largest protest so far against the controversial legislation.
Organisers put the attendance at 25,000 while police said 12,000 joined the
march. Last week, a survey conducted by the Hong Kong Transition Project, an
academic-led group which monitors the effects of the handover from British
to Chinese rule in the territory, found the proposed security laws had
raised fears about personal freedoms to their highest levels since 1997.
