Criticism of cultural show eerily echoes Beijing propaganda, but fails to deter audience.
In a landmark case, a judge at the Seoul Administrative Court granted two Falun
Gong adherents political asylum in Korea on January 16, 2008, finding that their
fears of persecution in China well-founded.
Canadian exports to China grew strongly last year despite Ottawa’s increased focus on human rights, Canada’s trade minister said Monday.
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.”
The Canadians supervised calls to several hospitals by Mandarin speakers purporting to be acting for patients seeking urgent transplants, getting some doctors and officials to admit taking organs from young and healthy Falun Gong prisoners.
Members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong will hold a candlelight vigil outside
the Chinese embassy in Canberra to coincide with the visit of China’s president
Hu Jintao.
Falun Gong and other groups have a regular presence outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra, where they protest against Beijing’s alleged human rights abuses.
“We’re not protesting against APEC, we’re not protesting against the Howard Government, we just want people to realise thousands of Falun Gong people are held in camps in China and they’re killed for organ transplants,” said Falun Gong spokeswoman Kay Rubacek.
The awarding of the 2008 Olympic Games to China was an acknowledgment of the country’s dynamic economic progress and its emergence as a world power to be reckoned with. Implicit in this decision was the understanding that China would prove itself worthy of the International Olympic Committee’s vote of confidence by joining the community of…
Director Elefteria Kalogritsa has produced a documentary on the journey of Jane Dai and her daughter Fadu and how Ms. Dai’s husband was brutally killed for his belief in Falun Gong.
A Global Human Rights Torch Relay (HRTR), inspired by the Olympic torch, is to be lit in Greece on Thursday August 9 and will travel around the world to put human rights on the agenda in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Four men accused of pocketing millions of dollars that patients had paid for organ transplants in Asia were arrested in Israel this week.