Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On February 10, 2007, on the busiest business street of Chinatown in Melbourne, a parade was held to support eighteen million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

Parade passes by business street downtown

Reenactment of CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners

Public watch the parade

The rally was hosted by the Melbourne Service Center for Quitting the CCP. With the assistance of the police, the event included rallies in the middle and at the end of the parade. The first rally was held on the busiest business street in Chinatown in both English and Chinese. After the parade, another rally was held on city square, the starting point of the parade, so that more people and tourists could learn about the quitting the CCP movement in China and the CCP's atrocities of live organ removal.

Representatives from the Service Center for Quitting the CCP, the Epoch Times, the Falun Dafa Association in Victoria and former Olympic Silver medalist Ms. Jan Becker gave speeches at the rallies.

Mr. Yu of the Service Center for Quitting CCP stated that along with the spreading of the "Nine Commentaries on Communist Party", more Chinese people have quit the CCP.

Ms. Fu of the Epoch Times recommended to the public the other commentary, "Disintegrating the Party Culture". She said that heaven would destroy the CCP and eliminating the CCP's contamination of Chinese culture is an essential action.

The event caught the attention of the public and tourists, who stopped to watch or take photos. The truth-clarification literature that was prepared before the parade was all distributed during the parade.

A group of students from Taiwan was interested in the parade and asked what Falun Gong is and why such a parade was held. When a practitioner explained that the CCP extends the persecution to overseas and influences media in Taiwan, they understood. One of them said that some practitioners in Taiwan were denied entry to Hong Kong and mainland China.

A senior lady said that before the parade she signed the petition supporting the Australia investigation team's request to enter China to conduct an independent investigation into accusations of live organ removal. She said that it is horrible, and how could such things happen in today's world.

A tourist from Canada praised the parade and said that he knew the CCP very well due to his work and life. Everyone should have the freedom of expression.

A student at Deakin University said that he heard of the live organ removal from the media. He supported the parade very much and said it would be best to have a parade every day to let everyone know of the persecution.

Mr. Mao, who lived in Singapore for eleven years after leaving China and now lives in Melbourne, saw the parade while shopping. He followed the procession to city square. He said that in the fourth grade (about 1969) in China, he bought an expensive short wave radio receiver to listen BBC broadcasts and so he knew the nature of the CCP. As a Christian, he supports the quitting the CCP activity.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/11/148761.html

On the morning of February 5, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Belgium gathered in front of the Singapore Embassy to protest that government’s unreasonable trial of six Falun Gong practitioners on the charge of "assembly without a permit." They urgently called on the Singaporean authorities to drop the charges against the practitioners and not to help the Chinese communist regime persecute Falun Gong or become an accomplice in the persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners protest Singapore government’s false charges

Human rights lawyer Mr. Ravi shows his support for Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioners submit a petition letter to the Singapore Embassy.

Human rights lawyer Mr. Ravi came all the way from Singapore to participate in the protest. Although it was very cold, Mr. Ravi insisted on staying with the practitioners. Due to his defense of Falun Gong practitioners, his certificate to practice law was revoked by the Singapore government.

With the local police’s assistance, representatives of Belgian Falun Gong practitioners and Mr. Ravi met the Singapore Embassy’s First Secretary and Consul, Mr. Rama. Falun Gong practitioners explained to him the unfair treatment Falun Gong practitioners have received in Singapore, and the reasons why they staged the protest. They also called on the Singapore government not to help the Chinese communist regime persecute Falun Gong. The consulate official stated that Falun Gong is a legal organization in his country and people are allowed to practice Falun Gong in Singapore. When he mentioned that all organizations should abide by the laws, Mr. Ravi told the officials his own experience in defending Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore. He said the trial of Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore is illegal and people don’t have the freedom to protest in Singapore, and that’s why they staged the protest there. He especially pointed out that when trying to defend the Falun Gong practitioners, the Singapore police even took away the evidence he wanted to use for the defense of the defendants. He urged all of Singapore's citizens in other countries around the world to go to their embassies to express their concern about the case.

Afterwards, two Falun Gong practitioners formally presented the Belgian Falun Gong Association’s petition and other related materials to the Singapore Embassy. The practitioners stated that before the Chinese communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, Falun Gong was allowed to hold various activities, and they had never had any problems holding these activities. However, after the Chinese regime started the persecution, the Singapore practitioners’ legitimate activities were interfered with in a variety of ways, and they have been treated unreasonably. It is unacceptable that the Singapore government helps the Chinese communist regime to persecute Falun Gong.

The Embassy’s First Secretary and the Consul, Mr. Rama, eventually agreed to forward the petition as well as the practitioners’ requests to the government.