Ms. Dai Zhizhen held back the tears while narrating her story: “They arrested him, tortured him with electric batons, sent him to re-education classes [brainwashing classes] and then beat him until he died.”
On the 30th of April 2003, Australian Dafa practitioner Jane Dai, together with Hungarian and Austrian practitioners, met with a member of the Budapest-Helsinki Committee.
Recently, many foreign media have attacked the Party for covering up the SARS situation and they stated that the Chinese officials’ lies “will cost the world many lives and heavy economic loss.”
While assisting other practitioners on Saturday 26th April, 2003 at the Menangle Pace Way Fair, I learnt a beautiful skill, i.e. making paper lotus flowers.
The Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in the western suburbs of Harbin City directly reports to the Chinese Public Security Ministry. It is one of the locations currently being utilized by the Jiang regime to torture Falun Gong practitioners into recanting their belief.
When we left Wanjia, there were still over 300 Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained there. What is more worrisome is that Dafa practitioners who were detained in the mini-cells are still being tortured and their lives are in great danger.
The fast-spreading SARS virus and the mounting death toll of victims have caused worldwide attention and anxiety. Neglected by outside observers, however, have been frantic rumors within China that have aroused public imagination.
The value of deals at China’s top trade fair slumped to a quarter of previous levels — the worst showing in 15 years — state media said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that SARS is hitting Asia’s fastest growing economy.
Had I not been familiar with Falun Gong, I too would have believed the propaganda.
The World Truth Forum will examine topics such as Justice, China and the Law, as well as Human Rights and Civil Liberties.
Individuals who have exposed the illegal detention, torture and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese police custody have been charged with “leaking state secrets,” and sentenced to prison terms or held in detention and tortured themselves.
The theme for the Parade was “Bendigo – golden past, golden future.”
Our parade entry fitted this theme very well. We represented some of the golden past of traditional Chinese culture with authentic Tang dynasty costumes and beautiful dancers including showing the ancient Falun Dafa Qi gong exercises and meditation.