The report was published on March 23, 2004 and submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. It is a summary of communications between the rapporteur and various governments concerning suspected torture cases and urgent appeals during 2003.
A media black-out in China, diplomatic interference abroad, and a global propaganda war keeps the true situation of Falun Gong in China largely unknown to the mainstream…
Why must people be killed for their beliefs
Why must children not know peace
Why cant peace grow on every tree and
Why should little children say why does peace not know me
Peace should be known to everyone , including me.
Before a packed courthouse in downtown Chicago, oral arguments were presented yesterday to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in the class-action lawsuit against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
On April 1st, 2004, China Wuhan City police ransacked the home of Ms. Huang Zhao and her husband, stealing valuables and detaining the couple who both practice Falun Gong. Two weeks later, Huang was dead.
More than a thousand people rallied on Federal Plaza in Chicago this week to gain public support for a civil lawsuit charging former Chinese president Jiang Zemin with the genocide of Falun Gong practitioners.
On May 27, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will decide if former foreign heads of state may use the “head-of-state” defense, typically limited to sitting heads of state, to shield themselves from civil responsibility for the alleged crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity.
On Saturday, 15th May, Falun Gong practitioners from around Queensland joined together at Brisbane’s King George Square in front of Town Hall to celebrate the fifth World Falun Dafa Day with dignitaries and the public. This was also the 12th anniversary of Dafa’s introduction to the public in China.
On May 15, 2004 about 300 Falun Dafa practitioners from Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne gathered in Melbourne, the capital of the state of Victoria, and launched a grand parade, revealing the moving, tragic and glorious history of Falun Dafa since it was introduced to the public in 1992.
A group of teenagers living in the United States organized an original initiative to denounce the persecution of child members of the Falun Gong, as perpetrated by the Chinese governement in Beijing.
Why the attention? Yen Ching who spoke to the gathering at City Hall said, “They are riding to save the lives of children and teen-agers in China because of their own belief or their parents’ spiritual belief in Falun Gong.”
The New South Wales Falun Dafa Association is suing a Sydney Chinese newspaper for defamation.