A Gold Coast lawyer whose client claims she was tortured in China says he is disturbed by reports that the Chinese embassy has asked Australian newspapers not to print material that could disrupt the Chinese President’s visit to Australia.
THE children in Ashfield Mall at a recent rally carefully moved through
their Falun Gong meditation to show how the exercise promoted truth,
compassion and tolerance.
HUMAN rights activists yesterday launched a civil suit against a senior
Chinese official on a one-day visit to the island, charging him with crimes
against humanity and genocide.
The National Association of Lawyers, the largest lawyers association in Taiwan, passed a resolution and issued a public statement on October 25, 2003, to support worldwide legal initiatives to bring Jiang Zemin to justice.
On Tuesday the Chinese embassy in Canberra wrote to newspapers to ask that they not publish letters or advertisements from “organisations for independence of Tibet or Falun Gong” during President Hu Jintao’s visit.
On Wednesday, 15 plaintiffs from the United States, Australia, Belgium and Spain filed a criminal lawsuit with Spain’s National Court charging former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin with directing genocide and torture of Falun Gong practitioners.
The protesters hope to put former Chinese president Jiang Zemin on trial for alleged human rights abuses during his time in office, including persecution against political dissidents and religious groups.
Ouyang Yu, the elder brother of Ouyang Ming is an Australian citizen. He is also a famous writer, poet and does not practice Falun Gong. He said he feels grief-stricken and helpless about his younger brother’s death, and he has nowhere to turn to seek redress for this injustice.
This was the third case of…
After seeing the coverage of a few topics on the CD, such as the Tiananmen self–immolation and the worldwide spread of Dafa and seeing the interest with which the court participants were watching, the presiding judge nervously called a halt to the viewing.
DR ZHANG Youlai tells his story to anybody who will listen. The scenario has become well-known: members of a Chinese family caught in the crackdown on Falun Gong or Falun Dafa ordered in 1999.
In the case of Jiang, the attorneys argued that the veteran Chinese politician essentially forfeited his immunity by violating his “nation’s laws and international norms,” through the persecution of China’s Falun Gong followers.
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of new cases in Finland, Iceland, Belgium,
France, and Australia. It’s the latest tactic in an ongoing, high-profile campaign to draw
attention to China’s often brutal three-year-old crackdown on the group.