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DONCASTER’S Shuang Luan has been to hell and survived to tell the tale. The 31-year-old began practicing Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, after reading Zhuan Falun, the teachings of Falun Gong.
Bu Dongwei, also known as David Bu, was assigned to two-and-a-half years’ “Re-education through Labour” (RTL) on 19 June in connection with his activities as a member of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He is detained at an undisclosed location, and Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience. He is at serious…
New Zealand practitioners recently held a “Falun Dafa Practitioners Validating the Fa” photo exhibit on the campus of Auckland University. During the exhibition, a reporter of the Craccum magazine interviewed practitioner Poutama.
Our report has seventeen different recommendations. Virtually no precaution one can imagine to prevent the harvesting of organs of Falun Gong practitioners in China is currently being taken. All these precautions should be put in place.
The event was organised by local practitioners of Falun Gong because many of the victims of illegal organ harvesting are proponents of the meditation exercise who were captured and jailed as prisoners of conscience.
Recently, a seminar on organ harvesting was held at the New South Wales State Parliament. The seminar was hosted by Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Center. Former Canadian Secretary of State, David Kilgour and Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, were the keynote speakers.
The People’s Republic of China is an unpleasant dictatorship – with scant regard for democracy in Australia, it appears. Scant regard for democracy – and a few well placed agents of influence happy to collude with its human rights abuses.
Former Canadian secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific David Kilgour and vice-president of the European parliament Edward McMillan-Scott were invited to visit Australia. Their objective is to report to Australian political circles and the public about their investigations into the harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Further support for an end to organ harvesting came in a statement this week referring to the Matas-Kilgour report, when the U.S. National Kidney Foundation said it “is deeply concerned about recent allegations regarding the procurement of organs and tissues through coercive or exploitative practices abroad, or practices which violate worldwide human rights standards.”
Two senior parliamentarians – one from Europe, the other from Canada – have called on the United Nations to investigate startling allegations that the Chinese government killed thousands of Falun Gong practioners and harvested their organs for sale.
David Kilgour was a member of the Canadian Parliament for 26 years until January this year. During that time he served in many roles including Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific in the years 2002 and 2003. Prior to entering parliament Mr Kilgour practiced law, worked as Crown Prosecutor in Manitoba.