Mr. Jiang Renzheng, a Chinese national, had applied for political refugee status for practicing Falun Gong in Germany but was rejected and repatriated to China. Less than one month after he returned to China, he suffered persecution and was sentenced to three years of forced labor.
A Chinese dissident and Falun Gong practitioner facing deportation will make a last-ditch appeal directly to Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone in Canberra, having bicycled 600 km from Melbourne.
A CHINESE national who fears persecution in his homeland is cycling from Melbourne to Canberra in a bid to avoid deportation from Australia.
Hong Kong’s top court has overturned convictions against eight followers of the Falun Gong spiritual group accused of assaulting and obstructing police during a 2002 protest. The case is seen as a key test of judicial independence under Chinese rule.
Wasn’t the world shocked and in disbelief when it was revealed what Hitler had done to the Jews in World War Two? Similar questions are being asked about the Chinese Government’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners after last week’s exhibition at the Noosa Library was censored.
I read with interest your article “Too strong, too real”, on the front page of the Noosa News of Friday, 15 April 2005. Such an art exhibition, and indeed such a terrible persecution of its own people taking place in China today, must stir the hearts and compassion of all concerned locals.
I applaud the Noosa News for tackling a front-page report, “Too strong, too real”, on the recent Falun Gong Art Exhibition “Uncompromising Courage” and for clarifying the truth of the ongoing persecution against millions of innocent citizens inside Mainland China.
The Chinese Communist Party has been carrying out massive secret arrests across the country, spanning several provinces and many cities, according to numerous sources in China. The arrests are targeting anyone believed to have an affiliation with Falun Gong, and witnesses say that some cities are being controlled under martial law conditions.
“Witness” Book Launch Meets with Tremendous Public Support on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Mr Law, who has lived in Australia for 25 years, said he had his own horrible experience with China three years ago when he was kidnapped and interrogated for three days and nights.
Director of the PIAC, Robin Banks, said the irony of the religious group being excluded from a meeting about human rights obligations, for exercising their right to protest, could not be ignored.
Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his wife encountered severe persecution shortly after they went back China. Because they practice Falun Gong, when they were in Germany, they filed application for asylum status there. Unfortunately, their application was turned down and they had to go back China.