By Kate Vereshaka & David Bryceson
May 10, 2005 A Chinese dissident and Falun Gong practitioner facing deportation Tang Xianhui, 42, closed Tang fears he will be imprisoned upon entering China, given his “I want to tell the people about the truth In 1996 Mr. Tang fled China, leaving behind his After He “In June 1999 I was very sick. According to the The Department of Immigration According to the German edition of The Epoch Times, This is a common fate for Falun Gong practitioners Falun Gong is a meditation Source: http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-5-10/28645.html
will make a last-ditch appeal directly to Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone
in Canberra, having bicycled 600 km from Melbourne.
the remaining 45 km to the Department of Immigration on Monday 9 May, having departed
Melbourne on his bicycle on April 29. He hopes Ms. Vanstone will exercise her
personal powers to override a High Court ruling that he leave Australia by May
25, 2005.
history of participation in China’s underground democracy movement, and especially
now that he practices Falun Gong, a meditation which has been brutally repressed
in China for almost six years.
about the persecution of Falun Gong in China,” said Mr. Tang. “That’s why
I’m doing this trip.”
wife and six-year-old son, after his involvement with the student democracy movement
brought him under threat from the authorities. He has not seen his family since.
his application for a protection visa in Australia was refused, he stayed on illegally
as his wife had told him police were searching for him in China. He says he was
reluctant to stay in Australia illegally, but his wife had begged him not to return.
began practicing Falun Gong early in 1999, before it was outlawed only months
later by then Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
I read a paper which said that Falun Gong can help to improve your health. That’s
why I started to practice. Only a few months later, in July 1999, the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong.”
Falun Dafa Information Center (FDI), the persecution of Falun Gong in China has
dramatically escalated in the past three weeks.
has refused to take into account Mr. Tang’s practice of Falun Gong in his
refugee application.
Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Renzheng was sentenced to three years in a forced
labor camp a month after the German government deported him and his family back
to China in March this year.
in China, with hundreds of thousands of adherents sent to labour camps without
trial since the practice was outlawed in July 1999.
practice which combines slow movements with adherence to the principles of truth,
compassion and tolerance.
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date: 15/May/2005
Original article date: 10/May/2005
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