Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the Fisher’s Ghost
Parade at the Campbelltown City Festival on the afternoon of November 1, 2008.
More than one hundred different groups participated in this annual parade.
The Immigration Department is endangering failed Falun Gong asylum seekers
by forcing them to apply for travel documents from the Chinese consulate in
Sydney, exposing their status to authorities and putting them in danger of persecution,
refugee advocates say.
Human rights groups’ statements submitted to the United Nations Committee against
Torture prior to the body’s review of China on Friday highlight the continued
torture and death in custody of Falun Gong adherents.
There has been an attempt to bring criminal charges against a high ranking Chinese
official (Zhou Yongkang), who is due to meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while visiting
Australia.
One of the four senior Chinese officials responsible for the
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, Zhou Yongkang, is arriving in
Sydney today upon invitation by the Australian Government.
In the afternoon of October 8, New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) and their supporters held a press conference outside the Eutelsat Shareholders’ Meeting venue in Caen, France. They demanded that Eutelsat resume NTDTV broadcasts in Asia.
Around 10:00 a.m. on August 21, 2008, several officers from the Jiadong Police Station, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province arrested fifty-eight-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuling. Then they ransacked Ms. Chen’s home.
NPPA member and photojournalist Jeffrey Rae is safe in Manhattan today after spending four days in a Beijing jail for trying to photograph pro-Tibet protesters at the Olympic games, and the story he tells about how he was treated by Chinese police comes as no surprise to those familiar with China’s history or their police.
The State Department is considering expelling New York’s Chinese consul general
after the official was allegedly caught on tape saying he helped incite violent
attacks in Queens against the Falun Gong spiritual group.
Today we begin a special series on the shocking conditions within China’s “re-education through labour” camps. Now, with cell phone camera footage that has just been smuggled out of China, the international community is being given a rare glimpse of life within these camps.
Mr. Wang Chongjun, age 65, died at home on August 23, 2008 after being
injected with an unknown drug in a Beijing labor camp, according to sources
in China. His wife, Ms. Wang Zhiqin, remains illegally detained and is unaware
of her husband’s death.
A painter from Hunan province, arrested in a nationwide pre-Olympic roundup of Falun Gong adherents, died the day before the opening ceremonies from injuries incurred in custody. Detained in March, an emaciated Mr. Hu Heping (???) from Yueyang city died August 7, 2008 according to recent reports received by The Falun Dafa Information Center. He…