Australian Falun Gong practitioner Phillip Law published an open letter
to the public on April 8. In the letter, he called for help rescuing his
fiancée, Shirley Sie, who has been falsely arrested and held by authorities
…
On April 15, 2004, the 60th session of
the United Nations Human Rights Commission entered its voting period. Sixteen democratic countries including the U.S., Australia, Japan and some
European countries voted against China’s “No-Action” measure, but
twenty-eight other countries voted for the measure.
This report further exposes the widespread phenomena of
China’s “re-education-through-labor” camp and prison system, in which
unlawfully detained Falun Gong practitioners have been forced into manufacturing
products.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
ordered the Melbourne City Council (MCC) to publish an open apology within 14
days in three Chinese newspapers – the Chinese Melbourne Daily, SingTao Daily
and The Australian Chinese Daily – and to pay the Falun Dafa Association’s legal
costs. This ruling marked the end of a year…
Falun Gong practitioners held an experience sharing conference in New York from April 10 to April 11, 2004. On the afternoon of April 10, more than three thousand Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world staged a “Journey of Falun Dafa” grand parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Renowned Chinese Australian
artist and Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Cuiying filed a Petition
to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights via human rights attorney
Mr. Christ Nyst. Australian Nyst…
In a quiet corner at the United Nations building in Geneva where the annual Human Rights Commission meeting is taking place, sunlight brightened the marble floor through the large window. Little Fadu, who turned four years old on April 3rd, was excitedly watching a pretty peacock just outside of the window.
The Melbourne City Council (MCC) has been ordered to publish an apology for
discriminating against the meditation group Falun Dafa by barring it from
the city’s 2003 Moomba Parade.
The rallies, to be held in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, are lobbying for support of the China Resolution, put forward by the United States, which calls for an immediate end to the repression of spiritual and other groups, including Christians, Muslims, Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong and pro-democracy groups.
Mr Nyst believes it is the first complaint on behalf of an individual – a female Australian citizen – to the United Nations about the treatment of people practising the Falun Gong religion.
In October 2003, after being detained for over one year, he was taken to the hospital where he became comatose. To avoid implication, they stationed plainclothes police outside the hospital and monitored all movements. After five months of suffering, Liu Jie passed away in March 2004.
A HORNSBY mother worried about her daughter who was imprisoned in China for
practising Falun Gong, has turned to Berowra Federal Liberal MP Philip
Ruddock for support.