Guangdong Province is one of the most severe provinces in China in persecuting Falun Gong. Since July 20, 1999, Chen Shaoji actively participated in the persecution when he was Secretary of Guangdong Political and Judicial Committee and Director of the Provincial Bureau of Public Safety.
THE mayor of Maribyrnong, Janet Rice, will be included in a delegation to investigate
human rights abuses in China. The delegation has asked permission to investigate claims that Falun Gong practitioners in China are being imprisoned and killed, their organs harvested and sold.
Belgian Senator Patrik Vankrunkelsven from the Flemish Liberal Party announced this week that he recently conducted his own investigation of organ harvesting in China and was urged by hospital staff to come for an operation before February when supplies would decrease.
QUEENSLAND’S two major organ transplant hospitals have banned training Chinese surgeons because of concerns raised by the Falun Gong group.
International reports have suggested that of the 60,000 organ transplants the China Medical Organ Transplant Association recorded between 2000 and 2005, only 18,500 came from identifiable sources.
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) announced the founding of an investigation team in Victoria, Australia. The team plans to go to China’s Hebei, Jilin and Hubei Provinces for their investigations.
Australia: CIPFG Writes to Chinese Consul General, Requesting Facilitation of Investigation in China
CIPFG in Victoria, wrote to Liang Shugen, the Chinese Consul in Melbourne, asking the Chinese Communist Party to stop the persecution against Falun Gong and to stop the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
The reason that asthma is on the rise is not because the air is polluted or because of dust particles, but because our environment is getting cleaner.
The Prime Minister said he would not downplay Canadian values for the sake of the “almighty dollar”. And “neglecting human rights hasn’t opened a lot of doors”, considering the size of Canada’s trade deficit with China. Canada has become a leading venue for Falun Gong activity.
A 60-year-old Chinese woman, Xiao Yun Jiang, has been “kidnapped” by Chinese authorities because of her involvement in the Falun Gong movement, according to her Australian daughter and son-in-law.
Reports that Falun Gong practitioners in China are being killed to extract their kidneys, livers, hearts, corneas and other organs have prompted the establishment of a delegation which will travel to China to investigate the allegations by interviewing both government officials and Falun Gong practitioners.
WND reported in 2004 charges by the banned Falun Gong group – backed up by Chinese doctors and human rights experts – that the communist government was torturing prisoners, executing them and trafficking in their body parts.