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Zhang Yaping commenced a hunger strike, starting on July 29, 2003 in protest. Around August 13, the police notified her family members to go to Dabei Jail Hospital in Shenyang City to pick her up. Zhang Yaping’s family saw that she was unconscious and her body was twitching.
An Australian Falun Gong practitioner is mounting a
case in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights against former Chinese
president Jiang Zemin.
The Australian Senate passed a motion on 21st of August 2003, expressing concern about Hong Kong’s proposed Article 23 legislation.
The World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong have found that one quarter of China’s financial resources are used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. As China is one of our largest trading partners this figure is cause for serious concern here in Australia.
The ancient Chinese said, “Do not commit wrongdoing just because it is a minor offense, do not refuse to do a good deed simply because it offers a small help”, “Whoever harms others will certainly end up harming himself.” These proverbs are indeed true.
MARTIN LEE: I think it started with Beijing looking at Falun Gong in Hong
Kong and wanted to have the activity stopped, but of course, these people
are not hurting anybody. They are behaving themselves. They are the world’s
quietest protesters because they don’t even speak a word when they protest.
According to a statement received from Falun Gong practitioners in China, as residents of a southern Chinese city settled down to view a popular Chinese television program recently.
If only I could live in the country, then I wouldn’t have the problems that I have here in the cramped, busy city…
International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson met with lawyers Chris Nyst and
Jason Murakami on the Gold Coast this week to outline their UN strategy.
On the 28th of July an Australian delegation will visit China for the annual Human Rights Bilateral Dialogue. Over the past 6 years, these dialogues have educated many Chinese judicial and government officials to see other ways of respect for human life and human rights and have the good effect of preparing China for a better future. However, it is the present that is the urgent concern for human rights in China and the effectiveness of these talks should also be considered in that context.
