When people hear the truth about the persecution, they often ask, “Why does the the Jiang regime persecute Falun Gong? Why does this regime treat a group of people with such brutality, just for cultivating their bodies and minds?” Everyone with rational thinking finds it ridiculous.
On the morning of August 6, Falun Dafa practitioners in Melbourne, Australia held peaceful sit-in in front of the Chinese Embassy to protest the Jiang regime’s persecution on Hong Kong people’s freedom and democracy and call on Hong Kong authority to immediately dismiss the politically motivated accusation against the 16 Falun Gong practitioners.
Hong Kong used to have the name of “the pearl of the east.” This is because it is not only an important center of trade and business in world economy but also a free, democratic, and civilized society. It is the window of converging and communication of politics and culture between the east and west.
At 1 pm, August 5, practitioners from the Sydney area held a press conference outside the Chinese Consulate in Sydney regarding Hong Kong’s trial of Swiss and Hong Kong practitioners. They called on people of all walks of life to express concern and help stop this “political persecution.”
Nicholas Johnson, a member of Amnesty International, visited the protest. He says, ‘Their banners are inoffensive, the area is kept clean and unobtrusive and the protestors in no way interrupt the running of the mission, spending most of their time in quiet meditation.
“No amount of hatred can crush our compassionate hearts, and no propaganda can forever hide the truth.” On March 14, 2002, twelve Hong Kong practitioners joined the four Swiss to begin a quiet, three-day sit-in and hunger strike in front of the Peoples’ Republic of China Liaison Office. Photographic and video documentation (photos and timeline)…
HONG KONG, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Hong Kong police did not persecute the 16 Falun
Gong followers charged with obstruction, prosecutors said on Tuesday towards
the end of Hong Kong’s first trial of members of the controversial spiritual
movement.
The magistrate in question rejected Mr. Harris’ request. Below are three incidents that demonstrate a pattern of partiality on the part of the magistrate
August 5, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center) – Today, as 16 Swiss and Hong Kong practitioners of Falun Gong are on trial in the SAR for peacefully appealing outside China’s Liaison Office to end the torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China, reports surface of eight more deaths due to police brutality…
New Zealand’s Auckland airport has defended its decision to order the
removal of a poster promoting the Falun Gong spiritual movement.