2007 UN report recently released includes the latest report by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak. He summarized particular cases in his report. In addition to cases related to Falun Gong, he also listed cases about Gao Zhisheng and organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners.
Court sets aside March 2006 court orders and grants extension of time for service of legal documents to China: “It is anticipated the Registry will transmit this application for service overseas expeditiously.”
Amnesty International released a document on April 30, 2007 titled “People’s Republic of China, The Olympics countdown — repression of activists overshadows death penalty and media reforms”. The report pointed out that the Chinese government uses detention and labor camp sat will to eliminate dissidents, including Falun Gong practitioners. The report updated the case of…
Ms. Wang Bo, at about six feet in height, is an intelligent and good-natured music student who had diligently practiced piano since she was quite young. Wang Bo had passed the highest exam, Piano Exam Level X. She was the pride of her family, friends, high school, and even the City of Shijiazhuang.
Falun Dafa has been widespread in Taiwan nearly twelve years. Looking back at Falun Gong’s widespread history in Taiwan, practitioners’ peaceful and rational appeal on “April 25th,” 1999 was a division point, because Taiwan media gave wide coverage of “April 25th” event, making Falun Gong well-known.
Practitioners in Melbourne held a series of activities to demonstrate the goodness and peacefulness of Falun Gong to tourists and citizens who took part in the commemorative activities on ANZAC Day. People were shocked at the brutal persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have been suffering in China. Falun Gong practitioners’ great deeds of countering the…
The wife of a diplomat stationed in the Chinese Embassy in Canada has defected,
bringing with her documents and testimony said to expose illicit activities organized
by the Chinese Embassy against Falun Gong practitioners, democracy activists and
other critics of the Chinese regime.
The Chinese Cultural Freedom Movement held its “2007 Special Spiritual Faith Award” Ceremony on April 8, 2007 at the Aotea Center in Auckland.
On the evening of March 28, 2007, ABC-TV’s flagship current affairs program “Lateline” reported in prime time that the New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular shows would be staged in Sydney on March 29. The program also exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Consulate-General in Sydney interfering with the show.
All eight were detained on 10 February by around 10 plainclothes police officers, for participating in an illegal gathering at the home of Liang Wenjian and Lin Zhiyong. The police also searched their home, and confiscated Falun Gong literature and their computer.
On March 21, 2007, the Divine Performing Arts Troupe presented the second performance of the 2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The Spectacular was supported by many Parliament Members, businesses, and the media. More than 10 media outlets reported about the Spectacular.
The deaths of Xu and Shen come close on the heels of the U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights Country Reports, released March 6, and confirm in chilling detail allegations of abuse at the hands of China’s communist authorities.