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From April 16 to May 9, 2004, the 13th Argentina International Book Fair was held in the largest exhibit hall in the country’s capital city, Buenos Aires. Falun Gong practitioners participated in the book fair for the first time. About 1.3 million people, 300,000 more than usual, came to visit the book fair.
The Chinese Consulate in Chicago refused to renew Ms. Dongmei Wang and Mr. Jiyun Kuang’s passports and withheld the passports simply because they are Falun Gong practitioners. On March 28, US lawyer Eric Ziegenhorn wrote to Consul Saipo Zhou requesting Chinese Consulate to reconsider the withholding of Falun Gong practitioners’ passports to prevent the filing of a legal action.
The Falun Dafa practitioners of Australia are proud to host a grand parade on Saturday, 8th May 2004 in the city centre of Sydney. The parade includes cultural performances, drums & gongs, a special traditional costume performance, floats depicting the history of Falun Gong over the last 12 years.
Importer Leejun Ivie had looked forward to celebrating her 41st birthday with her family in Beijing this year. Instead, she said, she was kidnapped by Chinese authorities and interrogated for 10 hours about her Falun Gong activities in the United States.
On the afternoon of April 24, 2004, in order to allow more people to learn about facts of the nearly five-year persecution, more than 60 Falun Gong practitioners from Melbourne went to the City Plaza in Downtown area to expose the Jiang’s group’s ruthless persecution of Falun Gong through a symbolic trial on the perpetrator Jiang Zemin.
Sydney Falun Gong practitioners came together the commemoration of the April 25 event in 1999. Lots of people were shocked that in the 21st century there are such human rights atrocities.
Celebrated UK Human Rights lawyer, author and playwright, Mr Geoffrey
Robertson QC, has joined forces with high profile Australian lawyer, author and
filmmaker, Mr Chris Nyst, and a group of Australian university students, to
compile a 500 page complaint to the Human Rights Commission detailing instances
of shocking abuse by Chinese prison guards and government officials perpetrated
on an Australian citizen.
Australian Falun Gong practitioner Phillip Law published an open letter
to the public on April 8. In the letter, he called for help rescuing his
fiancée, Shirley Sie, who has been falsely arrested and held by authorities
following the persecution policies of Jiang Zemin in China.
This report further exposes the widespread phenomena of
China’s “re-education-through-labor” camp and prison system, in which
unlawfully detained Falun Gong practitioners have been forced into manufacturing
products.
The Melbourne City Council (MCC) has been ordered to publish an apology for
discriminating against the meditation group Falun Dafa by barring it from
the city’s 2003 Moomba Parade.
