About 800 followers of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in
mainland
China, marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday to protest a planned
anti-subversion law they say will jeopardize them.
All costumes and props have been painstakingly prepared and personally funded by Falun Dafa practitioners who wish to make this heartfelt contribution to the community.
On Thursday 13 February 2003, the Hong Kong government published the full text of the draft law to implement Article 23, which it hopes will come into force as soon as possible.
Council sources told The Age that part of the reason was because Lord
Mayor John So was under pressure from the Chinese business community to
exclude the group. Cr Riley denied the suggestion.
The case centred on “one decision” by the festival hosts, their
legal responsibilities and their preparedness to accept the consequences
that could arise from allowing Falun Dafa a stall at the event, Dr Vout
said.
Concern for crowd safety, not politics, was the reason the spiritual
group
Falun Dafa was excluded from last year’s Chinese New Year Festival in
Melbourne, a tribunal heard today.
The “long arm” of Beijing prevented Australian Falun Gong practitioners
from
joining last year’s Chinese New Year Festival in the southern city of
Melbourne, lawyers for the spiritual movement said Tuesday.
FALUN Dafa, a group espousing truth, tolerance and forbearance was
silenced
by Ashfield Council last week in line with the Chinese Government’s ban
on
the organisation.
MANLY Falun Dafa practitioners will be coming together to celebrate
truth,
compassion and tolerance from February 17-24.
The “long arm of Beijing” prevented spiritual group Falun Dafa from joining
last year’s Melbourne Chinese New Year festival, a Melbourne tribunal was
told yesterday.
The Falun Dafa are an exercise and meditation group who had performed at the
three previous Penrith Australia Day celebrations.
Falun turning from cover to cover,
a compendium encompassing every realm beyond…