Australian Falun Info Centre – Monday 20 June, 2005: A motion will be raised by
the Democrats in the Senate in relation to Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners
will hold a peaceful appeal and press conference calling on the Federal Government
to:
- Support the motion in the Senate
- Investigate the harassment
of Falun Gong practitioners in Australia - Immediately stop Mr Downer’s
certificates restricting Falun Gong freedom of appeal in Australia - Urge
the Chinese Communist regime to stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China and
abroad.
A brief information package with the most up-to-date information
on the ongoing persecution in China and also its effect on Australians will be
available on the day.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
At Federation Mall,
Parliament House, Canberra
10.00am – 11.00am
Press Conference
Falun
Gong meditation and exercise demonstration
Reenactment of torture methods used
against Falun Gong practitioners in China
Information display
Background
Information:
Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a spiritual practice
composed of five sets of exercises and the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion
and Tolerance. It is non-religious and apolitical.
It is inaccurate to describe
Falun Gong as a sect or a cult.
The moral teachings of Falun Gong are not
inline with the Chinese Communist Party’s atheistic and violent rule by terror
over the Chinese people. In 1998, six years after the introduction of Falun Gong
to the public, a government survey found the number of people practicing Falun
Gong greater than the total membership in the Party. Since July 1999 millions
of Falun Gong practitioners have faced a state-wide ‘eradication’ campaign of
violence and mass propaganda under the orders of the then-Chinese Communist dictator
Jiang Zemin.
2,529 have been confirmed persecuted to death in Chinese labour
camps, prisons or detention centres. Inside sources estimate the death toll to
be much higher.
