The persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners and general respect for human rights has been debated and MEPs have used their position to highlight the situation and apply pressure on the Commission and Council for action.
PARIS (AFP) – Four followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual
group
have launched legal action in France against the Chinese Vice Premier Li
Lanqing, accusing him of torture, their lawyers said Saturday.
Falun Gong has become the major topic between the world and China regarding the issues of virtue and peace. China has been under overwhelming criticisms of the world media [because of the persecution of Falun Gong].
It revealed, among other things, that penalties for crimes against the
state
would be stiffened to include life imprisonment and that groups such as
Falun Gong, which remains legal in Hong Kong despite its illegal status
on
the mainland, could be banned.
Never mind that the typical
Falun Gong devotee is a little old lady practising deep breathing. Soon she
will be an enemy of the state in Hong Kong as well.
The 13 full-time professors criticised the consultation document, pointing out that the proposed legislation disregards the necessity for journalists to have the right to keep their news sources secret, and that it brushes aside the disparity in freedom of the press between the Mainland and Hong Kong, which blurs the ýone country, two systemsý policy.
I hope you ignore those tricks from the Chinese consulate. I support your beliefs. Because I know that your beliefs will bring a good future to our city and to Australia.
Some foreign banks in Hong Kong are deliberating
whether to relocate some operations out of the city if the government passes
proposed anti-subversion laws, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Falun Gong practitioner Jennifer Zeng was arrested in Beijing in 2000, and was detained and tortured for twelve months in a labour camp. After her release, she fled to Australia. In October this year, Jennifer submitted a lawsuit in the UN and the International Criminal Court, charging Chinese President Jiang Zemin with implementing “state terrorism”…
According to the legal summons served during former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin’s visit to Chicago in October, last Wednesday was the final day for Jiang to respond to the Genocide Lawsuit brought against him and the Gestapo-like office he established in June of 1999 to carry out the persecution of practitioners of the…
The Hong Kong office of HRW as well as eight other local human rights groups
have called on authorities to scrap the law altogether. Rights activists say
the proposals as they stand now would, for example, be used to prosecute
spiritual or religious groups, such as Falun Gong (news – web sites), and
political dissidents…
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is also urging Beijing to
release Yoko because she is “prisoner of conscience.”