As part of its ongoing efforts to end the Chinese government’s brutal treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) has begun a campaign to secure millions of signatures on a worldwide anti-persecution petition. The signatures will be gathered ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and will…
What is it about Falun Gong that people love? What is it about Falun Gong that has attracted millions of people around the world in a few short years? What is it about Falun Gong that people would endure persecution rather than renounce it? Find out at the World Falun Dafa Day celebrations in Sydney!
Statement on behalf of the Falun Dafa Associations of NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Falun Gong practitioners will not be protesting on the Olympic Torch route in Canberra on 24 April.
More than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners went to the Appeals Office of the State Council in Beijing to peacefully appeal on April 25, 1999.
To commemorate the “April 25 Appeal” in Beijing in 1999, practitioners in Sydney held a rally and candlelight vigil on the square in front of the City Hall on the evening of April 24, 2008. They mourned the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their lives because of the persecution, recounted the nine…
On the afternoon of April 25, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners in Queensland held an activity to commemorate the ninth anniversary of April 25 appeal in front of Chinese Consulate in downtown Brisbane. They called for an end of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) began to spread throughout the world in May 1992. It revealed the characteristic of the universe, “Zhen-Shan-Ren,” and people who began to practice quickly obtained better health while at the same time they strived to become better people. Falun Gong was spreading fast, by word of mouth, from one person to…
One year before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Communist regime has intensified its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The regime has actually taken advantage of the Beijing Olympics and used it as a justification to further persecute Falun Gong.
FALUN Gong practitioners are urging Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to raise the issue of human rights with the Chinese government when he visits Beijing next month.
In recent weeks, the New York Falun Dafa Information Centre has been receiving regular reports from adherents and their families inside China of door-to-door searches and arrests. According to statistics compiled from these reports, there have been 1,878 arrests taken place.
Amnesty International considers Bu Dongwei to have been detained for peacefully exercising his fundamental human rights to freedom of expression and religious belief. The organisation considers him to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.
Chinese security agencies have been conducting large-scale arrests of Falun Gong adherents throughout China in recent months as authorities step up efforts to “stamp out” the practice in advance of the Olympic Games in August, according to the New York Falun Dafa Information Centre (FDI).