On August 5, 2004, Sydney Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference
in front of the Federal Court to publicize the lawsuit filed against Chinese State
Councilor Chen Zhili during her visit to Tanzania for extra judicial killing and
torturing Falun Gong practitioners in the circle of education in China. Chen was
the first Chinese official sued by Falun Gong practitioners and summoned to appear
before court.
This lawsuit has a special historical significance. Chen
Zhili's appearing before the court aroused a strong stir among Chinese officials
inside and outside China. This allows those officials to realize that no matter
who they are, no matter where and when, they would not be able to free themselves
from the crimes they have committed in the persecution of Falun Gong. History
will demonstrate that all evildoers have to be held accountable for the crimes
they committed.
 Falun Dafa Association spokesperson John Deller speaking |
 Practitioners demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises in front of the federal court. |
 Reenacted torture methods used against Falun Gong practitioners in China |
 Passersby stop to watch truth-clarifying posters exhibited in front of the federal court. |
Australia Falun Dafa Association
spokesperson John Deller stated what Chen Zhili has done to poison the minds of
people in the education circle in her participation of the persecution of Falun
Gong practitioners. During her term as Education Minister from 1999 to 2003, Chen
launched a Cultural Revolution-style campaign throughout China's education
system — including graduate schools, colleges, high schools, primary schools,
and even kindergartens — ordering teaches and students to undergo “political
shaping of thoughts” with respect to Falun Gong. Amidst the campaign, teachers
and students who practiced Falun Gong were often sent to brainwashing centers
where they underwent psychological and physical torture. Sixty-one are known to
have died as a result. Only in Qsinghua University (A prestigious university in
China), more than 300 professors and students have been illegally imprisoned,
fired or expelled, or directly sent to forced labor camps.
At the end of
June, nine Australian Falun Gong practitioners went to South Africa to try to
file a lawsuit against Chinese official Zeng Qinghong and Bo Xilai for their crimes
in the persecution of Falun Gong. They were shot at by some hired thugs. Practitioner
David Liang was injured in both his feet. Thus the lawsuit was interrupted. A
month later, Chen Zhili who also visited South Africa was unable to escape from
being sued.
John said that Chinese officials who participate in the persecution
of Falun Gong are often afraid of courts of those big countries such as the U.S.
that advocate human rights. Tanzania high court's action of justice indicates:
even if in such a small country in Africa, those human rights violators are unable
to escape.
In order to cooperate with the press conference, Sydney practitioners
once again held truth-clarifying poster exhibition and anti-torture exhibition
at the same time. They also held a group exercise demonstration in front of the
federal court. Most passersby and work people nearby work in the legal community.
Many people stopped to watch truth-clarifying posters to further learn about Falun
Gong and the persecution by the Jiang's group. They became clearer about
Jiang group's evil nature.
In recent years, a number of Chinese officials
who are responsible in the persecution of Falun Gong are successively sued in
Europe and North America. Among them, Liu Qi, Xia Deren, Ding Guangen and Zhao
Zhifei were convicted. Canadian Royal Mounted Police also put 45 Chinese officials
including Jiang Zemin provided by World Organization to Investigation the Persecution
of Falun Gong in a monitoring list for those suspected of crimes against humanity.
Recently, Director of Wuhan TV station Zhao Zhizhen was sued in New Haven, Connecticut
in the U.S. for using media to instigate hatred.
Any evildoings will not
be able to escape from the reach of the law. The legal complaint successfully
filed in Tanzania against Chen Zhili shows that international society is paying
attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. This exposes and shocks
Jiang's group and also indicates the collapse of the system used to suppress
Falun Gong as well as the coming wave of justice that the wrongdoers will inevitably
meet.
Posting date: 11/Aug/2004
Original
article date: 10/Aug/2004
Category: Australian
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