Zeng’s account of her ordeal, Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong (Allen & Unwin, $29.95), will be released in Australia. It is the first book by a Falun Gong follower who has suffered imprisonment and torture — and it has been black-listed in China.
A SYDNEY woman allegedly imprisoned and tortured for eight months in China will be a test case for the Australian court system, the president of a Falun Gong group said today.
Next Stage of Australian lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for the persecution of Falun Gong. The civil case was filed in September 2004 by Australian artist and Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhang Cuiying for torture and inhuman treatment, which she received during an illegal 8-month imprisonment in Shenzhen, China in 1999-2000.
You have to wonder about China’s leaders. In the past couple of years, they’ve spent millions of dollars and a great deal of energy trying to play down their human rights abuses and persuade the rest of the world that China is a suitable country to host the world’s greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games.
On February 16, 2005, the “Uncompromising Courage” Art Exhibit was held in the York Hotel in downtown Sydney. More than 40 works of art by Falun Gong practitioners were displayed.
Mr. Luo Xiang graduated with a Ph.D. from the Institute of Theology in the Philosophy Department of Beijing University. He has been rejected several times from employment because he practices Falun Dafa.
Scores of individuals in the U.S., Canada, and at least a dozen countries throughout Europe reported receiving phone calls today with recorded messages unmistakably from China’s Communist regime.
Chinese traditional culture has gone through a lot of difficulties, and in the past fifty years it has been severely damaged by the CCP. However, the greatest perception of Chinese culture is its understanding of the principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition, a principle which posits that things reverse when they reach an extreme.
As I climb up a muddy grade,
I keep falling and wounding myself.
During the process I eliminate one secular attachment after another
Only to fulfill a grand pledge I have made.
THOUSANDS of people have been killed in China for doing the exercise Falun Gong, but a steady group of people practise freely every day on the Gold Coast.
Traditional Chinese culture is a precious cultural heritage. It not only carries 5,000 years of long-standing history but is also the cultural heritage from previous human civilization, or in other words, from pre-historic civilizations.
A candlelight Vigil in memory of Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death in China was viewed by many people driving past on the busy four-lane Old Gold Coast Highway.