By Nick Soon
Several Blacktown residents are helping a court action against the Chinese Government for attempted assassination of a Falun Gong practitioner.
Simon Huang, 43, and his wife Xie Yan, 27, were among a dozen people collecting signatures in Blacktown recently for petition to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
They plan to collect 10,000 signatures over the next six months to lobby for federal government help.
They are responding in an attempted assassination of their friend David Liang at Johannesburg, South Africa on June 28.
Mr Liang and eight others had gone to Johannesburg to file a lawsuit against visiting Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong and Trade Minister Bo Xilai for the prosecutions of their members.
Mr Liang was shot by a man with a AK47 assault rifle as a car drew alongside his car.
He was hit in both feet and was taken to the nearby Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital for an emergency operation.
Falun Gong is a meditation and self-improvement practice based on the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.
The Chinese Government supported the movement until they discovered about 80 million people are practicing it.
Another resident Simon Huang said the incident in Johannesburg was an act of state terrorism by the Chinese Communist regime.
His wife, Xie Yan and two children were among about a dozen practitioners who were stopped from entering China three years ago.
“They were abused, assaulted and bundled back to Sydney the next day after spending the night in a room at the Hong Kong Airport,” he said.
“They even refused to allow our kids to meet with their aged grandparents.”
He said all practitioners were blacklisted and could not return to China to see their parents and relatives.
Another residents Tracy Li, 41, spoke about her detention for about two years until her release in January last year.
She was handcuffed to high window bars for about four days when she refused to obey the guards to stop her meditation.
“I also worked about 16 hours a day in the prison making dolls and plastic flowers for export.” She said.
Posting date: 2/Nov/2004
Original article date: 26/Oct/2004
Category: Media Report
