Gao Zhisheng has stated that he has been threatened and harassed by the authorities since October 2005, when he sent an open letter to the Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, urging them to respect religious freedom and end the “barbaric” crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.
The U.S. Consulate in Shanghai has notified individuals close to U.S. citizen Dr. Charles Lee that he is to be released and deported back to the United States on January 21, following a three-year unlawful imprisonment in a Chinese prison.
Survivors of torture and captivity in China’s notorious gulag system have told the Falun Dafa Information Center of darker agenda behind CCTV’s “Same Song” Chinese New Year event to take place in North America.
Lin Fusheng recalled, “It was very hot on the day Master lectured. Many practitioners did not bring any water with them. We were very thirsty. After the five hour plus lecture, everyone hurried to find water during the break.”
It is hard for the people to know clearly what’s happening in the society right now. Having experienced so many political movements, especially the Cultural Revolution, old people like me will not criticise, nor will we want to follow others. Who is right and who is wrong? We will wait and see.
A number of Falun Gong practitioners around Australia have been harassed during the Christmas and New Year celebrations by a series of disturbing phone calls believed to stem from the Chinese Communist Regime.
In 1996, Master Li came to Sydney to introduce Dafa to people in Australia, and designated the exercise site in Darling Harbour. Since then, local practitioners have steadily come to the site to do the exercises over the past nine years, no matter what the weather conditions.
On December 25, 2005, more than four thousand Falun Gong practitioners from across Taiwan gathered in front of Chungcheng Memorial Hall square to form a Falun–the emblem of Falun Gong. This is the first time Falun Gong practitioners formed the grand and magnificent “Falun Emblem” over the past six years since the Chinese Communist regime…
At noon on December 16, Sydney practitioners held a press conference in front of the Thai Consulate regarding the recent unlawful arrests of practitioners. John Deller, chairperson of New South Wales Falun Dafa Association, delivered an open letter to the Thai Consul General.
On December 2, 2005, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Mr. Manfred Nowak, condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s use of torture at a press conference at UN headquarters in Beijing.
FDI: Falun Gong Practitioners Assaulted in Argentina after Lawsuit against Visiting Chinese Official
The Falun Dafa Information Center (FDI) has received first-hand accounts of assault, battery, and theft perpetrated against Falun Gong practitioners in Argentina. The assailants were described as ethnic Chinese, all wearing suits, and driven by car and van to the scene of the crime; photo evidence has confirmed these descriptions.
December 10, 2005, was International Human Rights Day. On this day, opposite the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, police interfered with a group of Falun Gong practitioners peacefully protesting there. The Thai police were incited to do so by Chinese Embassy officials. The practitioners’ human rights were seriously abused.