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Canada: Member of Parliament Condemns China's Human Rights Abuses
2008-08-12
On August 7th, Irwin Cotler, Canadian Member of Parliament and former Minister of Justice, held a press conference in Parliament Hall, and announced the release of a report he authored on human rights violations in China. The report lists eleven typical human rights violations in China. Cotler said, "What we are witnessing today ... is a persistent and pervasive assault on human rights in China." -
Canada: Practitioners Protest CCP's Escalation of Persecution under the Pretext of the Olympics in Calgary
2008-08-11
On August 7th, 2008, the Calgary Falun Dafa Association and the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) jointly held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate to protest the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) escalation of the persecution of Falun Gong under the pretext of the Olympics. -
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Falun Gong Practitioners Request Investigation into CCP Forced Labour Camp
2008-08-11ABC reported on August 6th, 2008 that about a hundred Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the business area in Sydney, Australia, calling for a large scale investigation into the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) forced labour camps during the Olympic Games. -
Hong Kong: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest Arrests Before the Olympics
2008-08-10
According to a Central News Agency report on August 7th, Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong held a parade protesting the persecution and the fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) broke their promise of improving the human rights situation in China, and instead used the Olympics as an excuse to intensify the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Letter from a New Zealand Citizen: Standing Beside These Genuinely Decent Folk, I Am Content, Rubbing Shoulders with These Warm and Friendly Souls
2008-08-10On August 4th, 2008, an Epoch Times editor received the following letter from Mr. Richard McRobbie, a New Zealand citizen. Mr. McRobbie described his experience and feeling when he was standing alongside Falun Gong protestors on the footpath outside the Chinese Embassy in howling wind and freezing rain. -
WOIPFG Report Exposes CCP's Efforts to Infiltrate Free World with Communist Propaganda
2008-08-09On July 29th, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) updated and published a report entitled: "An Investigation Report on the CCP's Foreign Propaganda System Making Ideology Infiltration and Spreading Hatred and Lies Among the International Communities"[sic]. -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Gather at Times Square, New York to Condemn the Mass Arrests in China
2008-08-08
Following the protest against the Chinese Communist regime's intensifying the persecution of Falun Gong under the pretext of the Olympic Games last Wednesday in front of the Chinese Consulate, Falun Gong practitioners gathered in the famous Times Square in downtown New York City on the evening of August 6th, 2008. -
Canada Free Press (CFP): Want to break through China's Olympics censorship? Falun Gong's got the roadmap
2008-08-08With a defiant China standing firm on Internet censorship, one tiny group is standing tall against them. Even as China was hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism yesterday, The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) was writing a detailed guide, a how-to booklet with a map to some of China's most prominent gulags of despair. -
Australia: People from All Circles Rally in Brisbane to Condemn Eutelsat for Siding with Chinese Communist Party
2008-08-07
On August 2nd, 2008, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Queensland Branch, along with Sound of Hope Radio Network (SOH) Brisbane Branch in Australia, held a press conference and rally about the recent incident of Eutelsat suddenly cutting off NTDTV's and SOH's broadcast signals to China. -
Australia: Protest at Chinese Consulate in Melbourne Targets Mass Arrests of Falun Gong Practitioners Before Olympics
2008-08-07The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not kept its promise to improve human rights in China in exchange for being allowed to host the 2008 Olympics. On the contrary, it has accelerated the persecution against Falun Gong. Consequently, on August 1st, Falun Gong practitioners from Melbourne, Australia, held a protest in front of the Chinese Consulate. -
Canada: Practitioners Participate in Ninth-Annual Luminara Community Lantern Festival in Victoria
2008-08-06
The ninth-annual Luminara Community Lantern Festival, hosted by the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, took place on Saturday evening, July 26th, 2008, at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. -
Epoch Times: Flushing Incident Mobster Pleads Guilty
2008-08-05FLUSHING, New York City - Queens Criminal Court indicted mobster Ngan T. Yung with criminal mischief on July 28th. Yung pleaded guilty and was fined to compensate property damage to the victim, vice editor-in-chief of The Epoch Times, also a Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Pan Hongyi. -
WOIPFG Concerned about the Intensified Persecution Before the Beijing Olympics
2008-08-05On July 21st, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) published an urgent notice regarding the arrests of Falun Gong practitioners before the Beijing Olympics. WOIPFG called on the international community to pay attention to the intensified persecution against Falun Gong and take action to stop it. -
Canada: CIPFG Releases Information on Labour Camps Near Beijing Olympics Contest Venues
2008-08-04
Mr. Zhang said, "Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were unlawfully imprisoned in jails, brainwashing centres, and mental hospitals even before the CCP's escalation of persecution. This is the biggest human rights disaster in the world." -
Israel: Wide Support Condemning the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong
2008-08-03
On July 22nd, 2008, a rally was held near the Israeli Parliament building in Jerusalem to support 22 Members of the Israeli Parliament who co-signed a letter condemning the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong.
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