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Frank Lu, director of the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, said that Liu’s death was being covered up and local officials had been told not to reveal any details surrounding it.
The claims put forth by Xinhua in this story follow a pattern of fabricated reports that have – under the orders of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin – been faithfully churned out by China’s state-run media over the last four-plus years in an attempt to legitimize the persecution against Falun Gong, or at least dull the interest of would-be critics around the world.
MEMBERS of the Falun Dafa spiritual movement today gathered outside the
Chinese Embassy in Canberra to protest the death of a man in Chinese police
custody.
Without access to any typical means of communication such as newspapers, magazines, TV, or radio, Falun Gong practitioners in China have resorted to many creative and sometimes unusual methods for raising awareness among Chinese people about the persecution.
Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi both technically violated laws in their peaceful civil disobedience, but such disobedience did not diminish their goals. In fact, their peaceful course of action was the only possible path to their goals, and by strictly adhering to that path they proved the virtue of their cause.
Greens councillor David Risstrom, who voted against excluding Falun Dafa in
a six-to-three council vote in February, said that limiting community
involvement because of a group’s political affiliation was a dangerous
precedent.
Judge John Bowman found Melbourne City Council had breached the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 when it refused the Falun Dafa Association of Victoria a place in the March Moomba parade.
On the afternoon of December 1, motion no. 704 initiated by Senator Stott Despoja, Australian Democrats’ Foreign Affairs spokesperson, at the Australian Senate about the relatives of Australian citizens who are being persecuted for practicing Falun Gong, was passed at Senate in the Parliament House in Canberra.
Despoja further indicated, “The stories of murder, torture and imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioners are truly horrifying. Many Australian citizens have relatives in China who are being subjected to such persecution and it would be wrong not to use the Parliament to speak out on their behalf and highlight their situation.”
The second of two autopsies performed on the body of a Falun Gong practitioner who was beaten to death in police custody revealed that several internal organs had been removed, presumably shortly after her death.
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), established on 23rd January 2003, is committed to systemically investigating the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China by Jiang Zemin and the 610 Office system under his command and the forced labor camps, detention centers, prisons, etc. This report focuses on the evidence of forced labor products made by unlawfully detained Falun Gong practitioners in China’s labor camps.
On December 7, 2003, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao arrived in New York, and practitioners unfurled two prominent banners reading, “Welcome Wen Jiabao to the U.S.” and “Bring Jiang Zemin To Justice,” capturing the attention of all. Is there any special significance to this event?
