Council sources told The Age that part of the reason was because Lord
Mayor John So was under pressure from the Chinese business community to
exclude the group. Cr Riley denied the suggestion.
The case centred on “one decision” by the festival hosts, their
legal responsibilities and their preparedness to accept the consequences
that could arise from allowing Falun Dafa a stall at the event, Dr Vout
said.
Concern for crowd safety, not politics, was the reason the spiritual
group
Falun Dafa was excluded from last year’s Chinese New Year Festival in
Melbourne, a tribunal heard today.
The “long arm” of Beijing prevented Australian Falun Gong practitioners
from
joining last year’s Chinese New Year Festival in the southern city of
Melbourne, lawyers for the spiritual movement said Tuesday.
FALUN Dafa, a group espousing truth, tolerance and forbearance was
silenced
by Ashfield Council last week in line with the Chinese Government’s ban
on
the organisation.
MANLY Falun Dafa practitioners will be coming together to celebrate
truth,
compassion and tolerance from February 17-24.
The Falun Dafa are an exercise and meditation group who had performed at the
three previous Penrith Australia Day celebrations.
The “long arm of Beijing” prevented spiritual group Falun Dafa from joining
last year’s Melbourne Chinese New Year festival, a Melbourne tribunal was
told yesterday.
Falun turning from cover to cover,
a compendium encompassing every realm beyond…
Sdyney(FDI) – In February 2002 a discrimination complaint against the Federation of Chinese Associations Victoria Inc. (FCA) was lodged by Melbourne Falun Dafa practitioners with the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission.
We write to call your attention to the plight of Dr Charles Li, a United States citizen from Menlo Park, California who was seized and illegally detained in China on January 22, 2003.
One week after she was released from China, Australian citizen Nancy Chen flew to Washington D.C., calling upon all circles to help rescue U.S. citizen Charles Li, who was illegally arrested in China on the same day as she.