In October 2002 Tang was taken to a room. Her legs and wrists were bound, and her mouth taped over. Teams of interrogators forced her to stand up to 19 hours a time as they shouted insults, slapped and kicked her.
Human Rights in China (HRIC) expresses its deep concern over thisreport, in particular as China’s report on its implementation of itsobligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child comes upfor review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in May 2005.
Since 1999, when the Chinese government started the crack down on Falun Dafa, millions of Falun Dafa practitioners and their family in China have been through brutal persecutions, and I am one of them.
The Waverly Council is hosting a series of events to bring attention to the hardships suffered by refugees who are escaping persecution in their homelands. This year’s theme at Bondi Pavilion is focusing on oppression suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Video footage smuggled out of Inner Mongolia shows the skeletal body of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xia. Two years of torture have reduced her frame to 20 kilos and left her fading in and out of consciousness.
I write on behalf of a local colleague of Falun Dafa members in our area, seeking an update on a very disturbing incident in Republic of South Africa involving Australian citizens who are also Falun Dafa practitioners.
The Sydney University Falun Dafa Club took part in a food fair for the University’s Multicultural Day earlier this month. The club provided traditional Chinese dumplings and egg-tarts for the students, and performed a demonstration of the Falun Dafa exercises.
Three months after Huang Ying’s birth in August 2001, she was forced to separate from her mother who was practicing Falun Dafa. On December 5, 2002, when she was one-and-a-half years old, little Huang Ying saw her mother’s body.
On October 5, 2004, a media event was held in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney by Falun Gong practitioners in order to condemn the secret arrest of the Falun Gong practitioner Li Liang of Tianjin city of northern China, brother of Li Ying who currently is living in Sydney.
AFP – The US House of Representatives approved a measure urging the Chinese government to immediately stop hostile actions against the Falun Gong spiritual group both in China and the United States.
At 8pm Eastern Time on October 4, 2004, the House of the Representatives in the U.S. unanimously passed H. Con. Resolution 304, expressing the sense of Congress regarding oppression by the Government of the People’s Republic of China of Falun Gong in the United States and in China.
According to the photographer who captured the event on film, many on the Square were saying they had finally seen the “brutality of police against Falun Gong” for themselves.