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U.S. coverage of China has been weak and our policies inconsistent. Terribly so. But it doesn’t render us incapable of doing the right thing. Falun Gong has been getting little press in the torch relay fracas. That’s not surprising. As an indigenous Chinese movement, rather than a separatist one, Falun Gong has taken a neutral position on boycotting the Chinese Olympics, sensing correctly that it has become a matter of Chinese “face” that the Olympics continue.
NEW YORK – The Falun Dafa Information Center reported Wednesday that mobs of hundreds have been assembled in Flushing, New York, daily since Saturday, May 17, to assail Falun Gong practitioners even as millions throughout China mourn.
Recently, under direct orders from Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP continues to frame and slander Falun Gong in China and overseas by fabricating news to inspire hatred towards Falun Gong.
What is it about Falun Gong that people love? What is it about Falun Gong that has attracted millions of people around the world in a few short years? What is it about Falun Gong that people would endure persecution rather than renounce it? Find out at the World Falun Dafa Day celebrations in Sydney!
Statement on behalf of the Falun Dafa Associations of NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Falun Gong practitioners will not be protesting on the Olympic Torch route in Canberra on 24 April.
To commemorate the “April 25 Appeal” in Beijing in 1999, practitioners in Sydney held a rally and candlelight vigil on the square in front of the City Hall on the evening of April 24, 2008. They mourned the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their lives because of the persecution, recounted the nine years of peaceful resistance, and condemned the CCP for its ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
On the afternoon of April 25, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners in Queensland held an activity to commemorate the ninth anniversary of April 25 appeal in front of Chinese Consulate in downtown Brisbane. They called for an end of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
One year before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Communist regime has intensified its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The regime has actually taken advantage of the Beijing Olympics and used it as a justification to further persecute Falun Gong.
FALUN Gong practitioners are urging Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to raise the issue of human rights with the Chinese government when he visits Beijing next month.
In recent weeks, the New York Falun Dafa Information Centre has been receiving regular reports from adherents and their families inside China of door-to-door searches and arrests. According to statistics compiled from these reports, there have been 1,878 arrests taken place.
