After traveling through the Australian cities of Sydney, Grafton, Lismore, and Toowoomba, the Human Rights Torch Relay arrived in Brisbane (Queensland) on November 3, 2007. The Torch Relay once again focused the Australian people’s attention on the persecution of Falun Gong.
After traveling through the Australian cities of Sydney, Grafton, Lismore, and Toowoomba, the Human Rights Torch Relay arrived in Brisbane (Queensland) on November 3, 2007. The Torch Relay once again focused the Australian people’s attention on the persecution of Falun Gong.
US Congressman: The US Should Not Participate in An Olympics Hosted by A Criminal Government (Photo)
US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher pointed out that while the Chinese Communist Party persecutes peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, the United States should not participate in an Olympics hosted by such a criminal government.
The International Chinese Vocal Competition, held in New York City’s Kaufman Hall, concluded on the afternoon of October 17, 2007. Vocalists from around the world competed, with twenty finalists receiving the top awards. The competition attracted many fans, happy to see this elite gathering of Chinese vocalists from around the world, promoting Traditional Chinese culture.
On the morning of October 10, 2007, before the Europe-China human rights dialogue and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Seventeenth Conference, the European Parliament held a press conference on China’s human rights and freedom of belief.
On September 28, dozens of human rights and religious groups rallied outside the United Nations Headquarters urging world leaders attending the 62nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and all people of conscience, to take joint action to end the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) will hold the first “International Chinese Vocal Competition” in late October. Through vocal arts, traditional Chinese art can spread to each corner of the world.
More than 26 million people have quit the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is attracting an ever-increasing readership and is having a huge impact. More than 80,000 copies of the Nine Commentaries were distributed in one city in Shandong Province alone.
Gao Zhisheng, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, was seen being taken away by secret police from his Beijing home on Sunday according to eye-witnesses. Gao had broken China’s biggest taboo by publicly calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
Sponsored by the organization, Free China, and co-sponsored by over 20 groups, a large-scale rally and parade with the theme, “The CCP Must Immediately Stop the Killing” was held on September 6, 2007 in downtown Sydney. A major focus of the rally and parade was a reenactment that exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organ…
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is being held on September 3 to 9, 2007, in Sydney, Australia. Falun Gong practitioners from different states of Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand and other places gathered in Sydney.
They are the quiet, constant protesters who are always left alone by police, even during this security-mad week. “We’re trying to raise awareness of the fact that human rights are never on the APEC agenda.”