A total of twenty UK parliamentarians have written to the Chinese communist regime or the UK Foreign Office since Wenjian Liang, her husband Zhiyong Lin and six other Falun Gong practitioners were detained in February, and sentenced to labor camps without trial in March. Amnesty International issued an “urgent action” and the UK media also…
Recently, Chinese authorities sent out the following directive: Since early-April, the Chinese police have been secretly issuing “Notification on Strictly Carrying Out Background Investigations on Candidates for the Olympics and Performing a Pre-Selection Test” to each province, autonomous region, police stations and bureaus in municipalities directly under the Central Government.
When the CCP’s atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners were exposed, the international community was shocked. Last October, Australian activists established the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) Australia Chapter. Currently, the group has drawn more than 80 members including senators Andrew Bartlett, Kerry Nettle and Barnaby Joyce and…
Early this year, UN refugees Ms. Ma Hui and her daughter were unlawfully abducted and deported by the Russian Government. On May 13, another UN refugee was abducted and deported from Russia. Falun Gong practitioner Gao Chunman is a professor from Tsinghua University, forced to flee China because of the persecution.
On May 10th, 2007, ten human rights organisations, including Human Rights Without Borders, International Human Rights Association, the Uygur World Congress and the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), held a joint press conference at the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, Belgium, to expose the CCP’s human…
Falun Gong has been here for fifteen years, from 1992 to today. The fifteen years that Falun Gong has been through demonstrates the glory of righteous belief and foretells the inevitable failure of the persecution.
May 13, 2007 marked the Eighth World Falun Dafa Day. 5000 Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan assembled in front of Chiang-Kai-shek Memorial Hall to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, forming Chinese characters, which read “Happy Birthday, Master” and “May 13–World Falun Dafa Day.”
The Australian Altruism Foundation, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia issued the “The Turtle Award,” the award of humanitarianism, of year 2006 to Ms. Dai Zhizhen and her daughter, Chen Fadu, on the evening of May 3, 2007. The award commends their courage and spirit in their trips to 45 countries around the world in the past…
2007 UN report recently released includes the latest report by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak. He summarized particular cases in his report. In addition to cases related to Falun Gong, he also listed cases about Gao Zhisheng and organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners.
Mr. Kevin M. Jackson, Mayor and the Governing Body of the City of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Proclaimed April 11, 2007 as Falun Dafa Day in appreciation of the New Mexico practitioner’s commitment to community service and raising awareness of these atrocities that cannot be ignored.
In April 2007, an additional twenty one deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China due to torture were confirmed. Among them, sixteen practitioners died between January and March in 2007 and five died in April 2007. Eight practitioners, 38 percent, were females, and thirteen, 67 percent, were seniors over fifty years old.
Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioners from all around Australia will host a series of activities as part of the international celebration of World Falun Dafa Day.