Zhang is one of nearly 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners whose deaths due to torture and abuse by police in China have been documented.
Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, European Parliament Vice President, wrote a letter to the Chinese Ambassador in Belgium, strongly urging the immediate release of Cao Dong and Gao Zhisheng. Vice President McMillan-Scott firmly states that he will refer this matter to the United Nations in person when he visits the United Nations on November 8-9, 2006.
The director of the Track and Field Association, the sponsor of the tournament Mr. Rao learned the facts about Falun Gong and found that Falun Gong is not as what the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) negative propaganda describes. He said that Falun Gong is a righteous practice and righteous way of cultivation.
It was estimated that about 70,000 people came to the festival. This is the sixth year for Sydney Falun Dafa practitioners to participate in the parade. The debut of the Divine Land Marching Band was a wonderful surprise for the attendees.
Member of the Australian Labor Party Dr. Carmen Lawrence attended the rally entitled “Join Together to Stop the CCP from Harvesting Organs of Living Falun Gong Practitioners”. She said that the persecution of Falun Gong is against the values respected in the 21st century.
Senator Barlett: Freedom is a Universal Human Value that we Should be Promoting at All Times (Photo)
Australian Senator Andrew Barlett, who recently announced to join the “Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China” (CIPFG) attended the rally and made a speech to express the support and encouragement of the Australian Democrats.
Falun Gong practitioners from Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane held a rally and anti-torture exhibition in front of Parliament House in Canberra. They called on the Australian government to pay attention to the CCP’s atrocities of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and take to measures to stop this crime against humanity.
FALUN Gong practitioners are continuing to pursue Foreign Minister Alexander Downer over what they say was his unreasonable crackdown on their long-running protests outside the Chinese embassy in Yarralumla.
In Lawrence, about 10 people gather three times a week to perform the exercises and study the principles. The exercises are meditative — both slow-moving and static — and designed to open the body’s energy channels and enhance and purify energy levels, among other enhancements.
Hundreds of people from all circles and representatives from different groups in Sydney held a large parade and rally in downtown Sydney, celebrating the 14 million Chinese people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
Taiwan, Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas have already visited 15 countries and areas, calling upon governments to take actions to stop the CCP’s crime. Mr. Kilgour also called upon the government to boycott the Olympic Games, which will be held in China in 2008, if the CCP doesn’t stop the crime of harvesting organs.
On October 4, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Sydney and Canberra started a van tour to clarify the truth of the persecution against Falun Gong to people in the small towns along the coast north of Sydney.