Epoch Times: Manhattan Falun Gong Exhibit Depicts Torture in China (Photos)

Aug 09, 2004

Nelly Au crouches inside a "small cell." (Evan Mantyk, The Epoch Times)

NEW YORK - A battered woman with large gashes in her leg crouches inside a small cage on the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. The woman's name is Nelly Au, and she is an import manager in Manhattan's fashion district. Nelly is also a practitioner of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a meditation practice that was outlawed in China in 1999. She is one of four people in an exhibit demonstrating the tortures used on practitioners of Falun Gong in China.

Washington DC: Practitioners Hold Anti-Torture Exhibit Outside the "Unity: Journalists of Color 2004 Convention" (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) The Unity: Journalists of Color 2004 Convention was held on August 4-8, 2004 at the Washington Convention Center in DC, with more than 7,000 journalists attending. On August 7, practitioners demonstrated the exercises on the lawn outside of the conference site. Practitioners also reenacted methods the Jiang faction uses in China to torture Falun Gong practitioners and displayed photo boards explaining the facts about the persecution. Many journalists and passersby stopped to find out more.

"Society for Threatened People" Contacts Chinese Ambassador to Austria Regarding the Rejection of Yong Wang's Passport Extension

The Honorable Lu Yonghua

Chinese Ambassador to Austria

Chinese Embassy

Metternichgasse 4

1030 Vienna

Vienna, July 28th 2004

Re: Mr. Yong Wang's passport extension.

Dear Mr. Ambassador:

We, the Society for Threatened People (GfbV), are a nonprofit Human Rights Organization that promotes the human rights of religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples to draw attention to violations of human rights and release such information to the public. Mr. Yong Wang advised us concerning his Chinese passport extension rejection. We understand that he has not received, as of date, a written clarification concerning the denial of his right and freedom of travel.

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