According to Chen, Chinese leaders have been forming personal, close relationships with top Australian officials of the last several years. So close that the Chinese government has been receiving legal assistance from the Australian government in fighting off a torture law suit from an Australian citizen who was imprisoned on a return trip to China,…

ABC TV’s Lateline program has had some of these documents translated and if they are accepted as authentic, the targets are members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong in Australia.

The 53-year-old Peregian Beach resident has been practicing Falun Gong meditation for about five years. He claims he was a victim of information gathered by Chinese spies, after he was arrested and detained in secret for two days in Hong Kong before being deported back to Australia.

Falun Gong practitioner Yan Zhao says she has been warned she has come under the attention of Chinese officials wanting to crack down on the movement in Australia.

TORONTO – As Jillian Ye braced herself to hear the contents of a secret document recently smuggled from China’s state security agency, she might have guessed she’d be listening to private information. What surprised her is that it was her own.

Many New Zealand Falun Gong practitioners believe they have been put on a ‘black list’ held by the Chinese government. Some practitioners have had their passport renewals and visa applications refused. Seven practitioners were arrested when they visited China in 1999.

In order to support my family, I started working for the newly formed Tianjin Bureau of State Security until February, 2005 when I managed to escape from China. I was in charge of Falun Gong issue, and dealt with other Qigong sects that were labeled cults by the Chinese government.

Hao Fengjun, 32, a former police officer of the 610 Office of the Tianjin Bureau of State Security, sought political asylum in Australia after he fled China in February, 2005. He left his work because he no longer wanted to be involved in the persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups.

The group in Australia issued a statement Thursday urging Canberra to grant asylum to the two defectors, and voicing the hope that “just as with the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners and what they have been subjected to in these labor camps will not remain a secret for much…

Ask the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre about China’s freedom of speech; ask the brutally tortured Falun Gong practitioners about China’s freedom of belief.