Worldwide News
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World Focuses on Sujiatun Concentration Camp, Practitioners Outside of China Expose CCP Brutality
2006-03-12One practitioner called the Woniushi Township Police Station and asked a policeman if he had ever heard about the Sujiatun concentration camp. The practitioner said, "I heard that no one ever came out after entering the camp, is that true?" The man who answered the phone said, "I heard about the camp; however, some people can get out." The practitioner then asked, "Were those who came out officials?" The man replied, "No, detainees." The practitioner then asked the location of the camp. The man said that he couldn't talk about its location over the phone. -
United States: CCP's Secret Concentration Camp Condemned at Rally in Houston, Texas
2006-03-12Practitioner Wang Bein, 44, was tortured to death on September 24, 2000 by guards at the Daqing Forced Labour Camp. After Wang died, the CCP authorities had his internal organs removed. Falun Gong websites have now received news that the CCP has set up a labour camp where practitioners organs are intentionally removed after death so that they can be sold. -
US State Department 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Chinese Communist Regime Continues to Persecute Falun Gong
2006-03-11Sexual and physical abuse and extortion were reported in some detention centers. Falun Gong activists reported that police raped female practitioners, including an incident in November at the Dongchengfang police station in Tunzhou City, Hebei Province, in which two women were raped while in detention. Forced labor in prisons and reeducation-through-labor camps was common. -
Australia: Falun Dafa Club at the University of Western Sydney Participates in 2006 Welcome New Students Week
2006-03-11Falun Gong practitioners arranged their booth, distributed informational materials, introduced the Falun Gong exercises, and demonstrated how to fold paper lotus flowers, which they distributed for free. Folded paper lotus flowers were very welcomed and many people highly praised them and were happy to receive them. -
Australia: New South Wales Supreme Court Hearing for Zhang Cuiying's Lawsuit against Jiang
2006-03-10Prior to and after the hearing and press conference, dozens of Falun Gong practitioners came to offer support. They unfurled banners and built a "Great Wall of Truth." The torture methods exposed from the banners and the information about the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners were shocking to the passersby -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in New York Staten Island St. Patrick's Day Parade
2006-03-09The St. Patrick's Day Parade every March is a traditional celebration for Irish people in North America. The parade is characterised with green decorations, and is a grand occasion for the Irish community. Falun Gong practitioners were warmly received as the only Chinese group in the St Patrick's Day Parade on Staten Island. -
The New American: Terror in America, Made in China
2006-03-09The Beijing caller and her American translator stopped Gerber with a harsh rebuke. "Shut it, you stupid fool. If you don't stop what you and your organization are doing, there will be severe consequences. We know where you are and who you are. If you don't give up what you are doing, we will kill more practitioners and come after you." -
Front Page Magazine: Red Star Over San Francisco
2006-03-08On March 1st, 2006, Front Page magazine published an article entitled "Red Star Over San Francisco". The article said that although San Francisco, California, boasts its own Human Rights Commission and bills itself as a bastion of tolerance, diversity and inclusion, it didn't quite work out that way when Falun Gong practitioners wanted to showcase their heritage in the 2006 Chinese New Year parade. -
The Epoch Times: Persecuted Father and Daughter Find Freedom in New Zealand
2006-03-08Huang Guohua and his four-year-old daughter Huang Ying still can't believe they were fortunate enough to make it to the paradise of New Zealand, following the nightmare they were put through in China where Mr Huang's wife was tortured to death in a Chinese prison for practising Falun Gong while three months pregnant. On a sunny afternoon in an East Auckland park, Mr Huang calmly tells his story... -
United States: Practitioners in Los Angeles Create "Great Wall of Truth" in New Chinatown
2006-03-07A practitioner from Taiwan was doing the exercises while her coworker and his brother passed by. The coworker was surprised to see her in Los Angeles! They parked their car and came over to talk to her. In the end, they got a lot of materials explaining the facts of Falun Gong and the persecution. -
AFP: Media Group Slams China's 'Brutal Vendetta' against Epoch Times
2006-03-07AFP reported on March 2nd, 2006, that The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has accused China of a "brutal vendetta" against independent media following the ransacking of the offices of one of its leading critics. The Hong Kong office of The Epoch Times was broken into by four unidentified men on Wednesday. They smashed a glass door at the entrance of the building and wreaked havoc in the offices, including entering the computer room in the print shop and wrecking office machines and computers, IFJ said. -
United States: Clarifying the Truth in San Francisco
2006-03-06One day, a western practitioner went to distribute fliers. While she was clarifying the truth to people, a group of arm-waving Cantonese-speaking men surrounded her. She was not frightened at all. She calmly talked with them for about 30 minutes. Later she told me that one of the men asked her: How could you be not frightened? -
Epoch Times: Australian Pressures Government to Uphold Justice
2006-03-06A Sydney woman suing Ex-Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin and the 610 Office (secret Chinese police), says she will seek a court order to pressure the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) into serving legal documents on the defendants. -
Japan: Practitioners Protest CCP in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sapporo
2006-03-05During the three-day activity, practitioners clarified the truth to passersby and Sapporo police. Just as many passersby were shocked by the brutality and expressed their sympathy to practitioners, the informed police officers also expressed that they understood the cause after chatting with practitioners. -
United States: Clarifying the Truth at the Oregon Asian Festival
2006-03-05From February 18th to 19th, the 21st Oregon Asian Festival was held in Eugene. With the increasing interest in Asian culture, the annual festival was even more colourful and well attended. Music, dance, painting, calligraphy, martial arts and cooking, from Asia could be found here.