Some recent media reports have linked Ms Shan Ju Lin to Falun Dafa (Falun Gong).
The Falun Dafa Association of Australia, Queensland Branch Inc. does not consider Ms Shan Ju Lin a practitioner of Falun Dafa (Falun Gong).
Public statements by Ms Lin on political and social issues are her personal opinions and are in no…
SYDNEY - Hundreds of NSW Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) practitioners will gather in Sydney’s Inner West on Saturday, May 6 to join a grand parade, marking 25 years since the spiritual practice was first publicly taught in China.
Traditionally celebrated on or around May 13 around the world, the day celebrates the beauty of the Falun…
SYDNEY, 16 April 2015 (Falun Dafa Association) – A photo opportunity and interview with survivors with first-hand accounts from Chinese detention centres/labour camps will be presented to the public.
Falun Gong practitioners’ “Chinese Pegasus” float was an instant hit at the Sydney Chinese New Year Twilight Parade on February 2, 2014. The float, designed and created by local practitioners, is quite fitting for the Year of the Horse. It displays the beauty of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, along with traditional Chinese concepts of harmony between heaven and…
Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province is one of the most economically developed mega-cities in China. It is also the centre of China’s organ transplant industry. Guangzhou is one of the cities in which the persecution of Falun Gong is the most severe. Various government organizations are suspected of implementing the organ harvesting of live Falun…
On 17 December 2009, in a landmark decision, an Argentine judge indicted and ordered the local Interpol department to seek the arrest of two high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for their role in crimes against humanity committed against Falun Gong practitioners. The ruling follows a similar decision in Spain last month, when the Spanish…
In a groundbreaking case, following a two-year investigation, a Spanish judge has accepted charges of genocide and torture in a case filed against five high-ranking CCP officials for their role in the persecution of Falun Gong.
This historic decision by a Spanish judge means that Chinese Communist Party leaders responsible for brutal crimes are…
2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the government’s formal ban on Falun Gong, a spiritual movement based on the teachings of its founder, Li Hongzhi,and Chinese meditative exercises called qigong. Viewing the 10th anniversary as sensitive, the central government held fast in 2009
with its 2008 pre-Olympics efforts to ferret out and punish Falun Gong…
On July 20, 1999, the then leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin, banned the Falun Gong spiritual practice. At the beginning of the suppression, Jiang intended to eradicate Falun Gong in “three months.” Intelligence agents locked onto Falun Gong practitioners whom they thought to be “leaders,” and its propaganda machinery prepared potent…
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) learned in mid-July that three lawyers in different locations in north-eastern China were detained over several weeks by local authorities.
The three, Liu Ruiping, Wang Yonghang, and Wang Ping, who have previously been harassed because of their work defending Falun Gong practitioners, were seized between July 2 and July…
Congressional letter calls Falun Gong plight “one of the most unjust and cruel persecutions of our times.”
“We applaud these members of Congress,” says Falun Dafa Information Center spokesperson Mr. Erping Zhang, “for articulating in no uncertain terms that the United States government will not tolerate the arbitrary arrest, torture and death of Falun…
After two long years of imprisonment and Amnesty International campaigning, Chinese
prisoner of conscience Bu Dongwei was finally released on 18 July 2008. Bu Dongwei was serving time in a ‘re-education through labour’ facility for allegedly possessing Falun Gong materials. For fear of again be detained or harrassed in Olympic crackdowns, Amnesty International was unable…