The World Truth Forum will examine topics such as Justice, China and the Law, as well as Human Rights and Civil Liberties.
Individuals who have exposed the illegal detention, torture and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese police custody have been charged with “leaking state secrets,” and sentenced to prison terms or held in detention and tortured themselves.
The theme for the Parade was “Bendigo – golden past, golden future.”
Our parade entry fitted this theme very well. We represented some of the golden past of traditional Chinese culture with authentic Tang dynasty costumes and beautiful dancers including showing the ancient Falun Dafa Qi gong exercises and meditation.
I would like to share the following poem about the commemoration event that took place on Bondi Beach on 26th April 2003, remembering the Zhongnanhai incident of 25 April 1999.
A general sense of making a difference and presenting an event that was an attempt to touch people’s hearts. It was prominent to everyone that Falun Gong was a peaceful practice, and the practitioners that were at Bondi Beach displayed dignity and well-being.
Only when the truth is revealed about the innocent lives lost at the hands
of this regime will the damages born from its lies and propaganda be
tallied.
Many people have died of SARS simply because China is not free, and
educated
Chinese today will be brooding about that.
On March 3, 2003, Dafa practitioner Tang Fafen was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. She was brutally tortured in the Zizhong Female Labor Camp in Sichuan Province. On April 12, 2003, Tang Fafen was released, on the verge of death, and passed away at home two days later.
I have the pleasure to inform you that based upon the information received from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from the point of view of the Romanian authorities, Ms. Zhang Cuiying is free to organize and hold a paintings exhibition in Romania on commercial basis and in the framework of the Romanian laws.
Scattered with paper lotus flowers the site was pleasing to the eye of passers-by, much to the satisfaction of the organiser. The people were captivated by the beauty of the paper lotus flowers, as the practitioner’s energy covered the site while they practiced their meditative exercises.
Melbourne’s Falun Gong community held a candlelight vigil tonight to
mark
the fourth anniversary of a protest they say led to China banning and
persecuting its members.
First of all, Falun Gong practitioners were exercising their rights by appealing as a group. The constitution of China clearly states that citizens have the right to appeal.