Australia: A Press Conference Is Held In Sydney Regarding the Lawsuit against Chinese State Councillor Chen Zhili

August the 5th, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from Sydney held a press conference in front of the Federal Court to publicise the lawsuit filed against Chinese State Councillor Chen Zhili during her visit to Tanzania for her role in the extra judicial killing and torturing Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese education system. Chen was the first Chinese official to be sued by Falun Gong practitioners and to be summoned to appear before court.

This lawsuit has a special historical significance. The appearance of Chen Zhili's before the court caught great attention of Chinese officials from both inside and outside of China. This allows those officials to realise that no matter who they are or where they are they will not be able to hide 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 have committed.

Falun Dafa Association spokesperson John Deller speaking	Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises in front of the federal court
Reenacted torture methods used against Falun Gong practitioners in China	Passersby stop to read Falun Gong posters

Australia Falun Dafa Association spokesperson John Deller stated the acts that Chen Zhili has carried out 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. This includes graduate schools, colleges, high schools, primary schools, and even kindergartens. All of the teachers and students had to undergo "political shaping of thoughts" with respect to Falun Gong. Amidst the campaign, teachers and students who practised Falun Gong were often sent to brainwashing centres where they underwent psychological and physical torture. Sixty-one are known to have died as a result. In Qsinghua University (A prestigious university in China) alone more than 300 professors and students have been illegally imprisoned, fired or expelled, or directly sent to forced labour 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 as Africa, those human rights violators are unable to escape justice.

In order to co-operate with the press conference, Falun Gong practitioners from Sydney again held a simultaneous poster exhibition and anti-torture exhibition. 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 read more about Falun Gong from the posters and about the persecution by the Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin and his group. From this they gained a clearer understanding about the Jiang group's evil nature.

In recent years, a number of Chinese officials who are responsible in the persecution of Falun Gong have been 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 Organisation 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 illegal and evil activities will be brought to justice according to the law. The legal complaint successfully filed in Tanzania against Chen Zhili shows that the 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.