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The movie “False Fire,” which analyzes the 2001 Tiananmen Square “self-immolation” incident, won a Certificate of Honorable Mention at the 51st Columbus International Movie Festival. New Tang Dynasty TV, a non-profit privately owned Chinese TV station, produced the movie. The award ceremony was held in the Kansas Center, Columbus Arts College, Columbus, Ohio.
Reliable sources in China indicate that more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners are being held at Jilin Prison, and that most of them undertook a hunger strike to protest the ongoing severe torture by prison guards there. The lives of those engaged in the peaceful appeal are likely in danger.
The perpetrators sent him to the
comprehensive unit of the City Central Hospital. Currently, Liu Chengjun is
unconscious, and the hospital is asking his family to take him home because
it does not want to take responsibility for his death.
Falun Dafa Practitioner Chen Ruichang, the former Deputy Director of the General Editorial Department of Guangdong’s Television Station is illegally arrested again. His younger brother, Australian citizen Richard Chen, is appealing to people from all walks of life to contact the relative departments of the Chinese government in order to rescue his brother before it’s too late. We cannot stand by and allow another tragedy to occur–Ouyang Ming, the relative of another Australian citizen, was persecuted to death in China.
Ouyang Yu, the elder brother of Ouyang Ming is an Australian citizen. He is also a famous writer, poet and does not practice Falun Gong. He said he feels grief-stricken and helpless about his younger brother’s death, and he has nowhere to turn to seek redress for this injustice.
This was the third case of a family member of an Australian citizen having died at the hands of Chinese authorities for practicing Falun Gong. There are reportedly more than ten relatives of Australian citizens still detained in China for their continued practice of Falun Gong.
On Monday, 29 Septemember 2003, plaintiffs in Falun Gong v. Jiang Zemin (and the “6-10 Office”) filed legal papers charging Jiang Zemin with crimes of extensive corruption and urged the Court to hold him responsible for committing genocide against Falun Gong for his own private benefit – to consolidate his power base, enhance his stature, and increase his personal wealth.
The World Organization Against Torture USA supports the continuation of the investigation under the Belgian Universal Jurisdiction law of criminal charges concerning Jiang Zemin, the former President of China and two of his senior colleagues, Luo Gan and Li Lanqing. These charges include genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of torture. It is important to apply the principles of the Universal Jurisdiction law to this case and to make certain that these individuals do not escape responsibility for the serious human rights abuse they have perpetrated.
Jiang Zemin is facing another lawsuit. In Australia, after Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Cuiying announced her intent to launch legal action against Jiang Zemin in her own name, practitioners in Sydney decided to bring forward a class action lawsuit against Jiang in Australian Federal Court. Currently, the case is in the stage of consultation and collecting materials.
Today in a criminal lawsuit, the man in charge of the “6-10 Office”, Luo Gan, who is on a two-day visit to Iceland, has been charged with crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity. The lawsuit was filed September 8 with the State Criminal Prosecutor in Iceland.
AN Australian resident subjected to torture and persecution in China is to have her case championed in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by eminent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.
A range of civil actions against Jiang Zemin and his persecution of Falun Gong members are under way internationally, but Ms Zhang’s case is unique in that it is an international legal action launched by an individual against the former Chinese president.
Ms Zhang has been away from her Bankstown home in Australia on a world tour since
May 2001. She has exhibited in over 40 countries and well over 100 cities. Being
in Australia for just over one month, she has already begun her latest tour, exhibiting
her traditional Chinese paintings in different districts throughout New South
Wales.
