Australia Human Rights lawyer Bernard Collaery has filed
a lawsuit in the Canberra Federal Court against Foreign Minister Alexander Downer,
for abusing the privilege of his position by continually issuing certificates
for the last three years to restrain Falun Gong practitioners from displaying
banners and playing exercise music in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra,
the nation's capital.
At noon on June 10, 2005, in front of Canberra Federal
Court, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference. More than 10 major media
gathered to report this news, including Channel 9, Channel 10, ABC, SBS, NTDTV,
Canberra Times, Australia News center, AAP, AGB, Epoch Times, ABC radio, and others.
Zhang Cuiying at the press conference
Three years ago, Foreign
Minister Alexander Downer yielded to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party,
disregarded human rights and justice, and signed a certificate prohibiting Falun
Gong practitioners from displaying banners in front of the Chinese Embassy. The
only reason given was that such activities were “against the dignity of the Chinese
Ambassadors.”
But if the criminal regime in China had any sense of dignity,
they would stop persecuting their own citizens. Since 1949 when the Chinese Communist
Party gained political power, they have caused eighty million Chinese people to
die of unnatural causes. The brutality with which they persecute and murder Falun
Gong practitioners is unmatched in human history.
In order to let people know
the truth about Falun Gong and to protect human dignity, several years ago I went
to China, but I was put into a Chinese prison four times. In prison, I risked
my life to write the truth on my T-shirt. Each time I did so I was subjected to
the severe persecution, beating, and humiliation. The first time, because I did
not have a pen, I used toothpaste to write on a black T-shirt:
“Falun Dafa
is great. Practicing Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is right. Neck can be broken,
and blood can be drained, but Falun Dafa can never be taken away from me.”
When
the prison guards saw this, they locked me into a cell full or mentally disturbed
men, criminals who beat, humiliated, and cursed me. While changing clothes or
taking a shower, the men in the cell and the guards were all watching me. This
is most insulting to a woman. Even now when I think about it, I cannot help shaking.
This fully exposes the vicious nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
Later
on, again I wrote on my clothes with toothpaste: “Evil Jiang, who suppresses Falun
Gong, will go down as a criminal in Chinese history.” When the guards saw it,
they took off my clothes and forced me to stand naked in front of a closed-circuit
TV camera monitored by all the male guards.
Before I got out of jail, on October
30, 2000 around 3 a.m., a kind- hearted inmate risked her own safety to lend me
a pen. Using this ball pen I traced and traced for the whole night and finished
this poem:
“Just because of saying some just words,
'Falun Dafa is
the righteous Fa',
I'm illegally imprisoned for eight months,
suffering so much hardship
only for appealing for justice,
neck can be
broken,
blood can be shed,
noble spirits and righteous heart will forever
remain.”
“Jiang's ghost suppresses Falun Gong;
he will go down as
a criminal in Chinese History.”
The purpose is to let the Chinese people know
the truth of Falun Gong. Just as I expected in Guangzhou airport, everybody applauded
and praised me. Because I am a citizen of Australia, the policemen dared not tear
off my clothes in public as they usually did. Instead they got a camera and took
pictures of me non-stop.
The Foreign Minister of Australia and the Australia
Foreign Affairs Ministry all clearly knew about the inhuman torture that I suffered
in China. When I was in jail, every day I took the risk of being beaten. I hid
a piece of paper in my braid while brushing my hair. When the Australian consul
in China visited me, I took the opportunity of shaking hands to pass the paper
to him. He transferred it to my husband. This was the only way that I could get
a message to my family.
In jail, the torn blanket I tried to keep warm with
was full of mold, and I slept on the cold cement floor. After several months,
my whole body was full of red bumps, and pus and blood covered my clothes. Frequent
burning pain and itching made life hard to endure. In addition, I was carrying
a foot shackle weighing more than 30 kilos (over 65 pounds), and it became tighter
and tighter all the time. It cut into my flesh. The pain was really difficult
to endure. I went on a hunger strike for over 50 days, during which I was dizzy
the whole time. The leader of the guards looked at me and somewhat to my surprise
he said: “Drop dead! You are inferior to a dog.” The head of the prison personally
came with his assistants to my cell and beat me. My whole body was full of bruises
everywhere. Nonetheless, Mr. Downer knew all of these the details very well, but
he still sacrificed human rights for economic benefit to please the CCP. This
is extremely unwise conduct. It not only hurts himself but also the Australian
people as well. Moreover, I believe he will not gain any economic benefit at all.
Because in doing any business with this Chinese Communist regime, which disregards
honor and justice, how can you gain any thing from it? Actually, there are international
trade laws between nations; you really do not have to sacrifice human rights and
democracy to do business with the CCP.
Mr. Chen Yonglin and Mr. Hao Fengjun
said the Chinese Communist Party has more than 1,000 special agents and informants
operating in Australia. The Communist Party not only inhumanely persecutes its
own people in China, now across the ocean they also openly and shamelessly persecute
Australian citizens.
From July to December of 1999, when I was protesting in
front of the Chinese Embassy in Sydney, my car tires were slashed many times,
and my windshield knocked out frequently. This February, some one put a bloody
dead cat in my front door. The cat's blood went into the floor, and even
now the stain still there, and cannot be removed. Every day I feel sick when I
see it, and my daughter is frightened to see it.
For the eight months I was
in prison, the Chinese Communist Party sent spies to snoop around my house in
Australia. My neighbor even noticed it. It brought my family, especially my daughter,
a tense life. They also harassed us on the phone, which can be easily found in
the records at the local police department.
There are so many things I cannot
talk about in detail here, but I sincerely hope all the Chinese Communist special
agents will follow Mr. Chen Yonglin and Hao Fengjun to step forward and expose
the CCP. Do not be scapegoats for the CCP, who ignore their conscience to persecute
innocent people. Also I sincerely hope the Australian government will quickly
clean up these lawless elements who endanger Australian society.
I
hope Australians in all circles and the media can stand up to stop the Foreign
Minister's unlawful conduct, and let Australia forever feel proud of its
respect for democracy, human rights, freedom, and belief. Do not let Australia
become an accomplice of the CCP, become the CCP's political colony. That
is the fundamental reason why I am suing the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander
Downer.
The dead cat the CCP used to intimidate Zhang Cuiying, and the
damaged parts of the car
Posting
date: 25/Jun/2005
Original article date: 22/Jun/2005
Category: Australian
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