(Clearwisdom.net) When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Australia, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference on the afternoon of April 3, 2006 in front of the Australian Parliament House. They called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong and demanded to bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to justice and immediately investigate the Sujiatun and other concentration camps where Falun Gong practitioners have their organs harvested and sold, and their murdered bodies cremated to destroy the evidence. At the same time, the practitioners announced to the media that Falun Gong practitioner Pan Yu has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, who accompanied Wen Jiabao to visit Australia. The lawsuit was filed with the supreme court, and the subpoena was successfully delivered to the defendant.
  Anti-torture exhibit shocks tourists who stop to look at and learn about the persecution facts of Falun Gong practitioners |
  Over a dozen Australian media outlets attend the press conference |
During Wen Jiabao's visit, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful appeal once again attracted the attention of the major media and people of Australia. Over a dozen major media attended the press conference, including the ABC TV station, SBS TV station, NTD TV, AAP, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Fairfax, the ABC Broadcasting Station and 2GB Broadcasting Station. Falun Gong practitioner Pan Yu and representatives of Falun Dafa Associations from three provinces, the representative of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, former Chinese consulate officer Chen Yonglin, who has publicly announced his withdrawal from the CCP, law professor Yuan Hongbing, and a representative of the Refugees Action Coalition made speeches at the press conference. An anti-torture exhibition and truth clarification photographs displayed brutal torture methods employed in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Tourists were shocked at the brutality and stopped to learn more about Falun Gong.
Bo Xilai, Who Accompanied Wen Jiabao to Visit Australia is Sued by Falun Gong Practitioners
It is reported that since July 20, 1999, Bo Xilai has been actively involved in the persecution of Falun Gong during his term as deputy secretary of Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and governor of Liaoning Province. As a result, Liaoning Province becomes one of the provinces where the persecution of Falun Gong is the most severe, and as of 2003, there were at least 90 Falun Gong practitioners who were verified to have died as a result of the persecution.
  Falun Gong practitioner Pan Yu speaks at the press conference |
Born in Liaoning Province, Pan Yu once suffered inhuman torture in China for refusing to give up practicing Falun Gong. He was illegally arrested and detained by the police on December 31, 1999. On February 1, 2000, without going through any legal procedure, he was forcibly sent to Danan Custody Center in Shenyang City, where he suffered rigorous tortures. On March 17, 2000, he was sent to a study class at Longshan Forced Labor Camp to receive intensive "reformation" [attempts to force him to renounce Falun Gong]. To meet with the so-called "reformation rate" set by superiors, guards at the forced labor camp beat and kick Falun Gong practitioners for a long periods of time. 40,000-volt electric baton shocks cause practitioners to lose bowel control and become mentally traumatized. He experienced unimaginable excruciating torture.
Pan Yu has filed a lawsuit against Bo Xilai for torture and successfully delivered the subpoena to him several days ago. Pan Yu strongly requested the Australian court, according to international law and Australian law, to bring to justice Bo Xilai, a perpetrator who has committed crimes of torture and anti-humanity. This is yet another lawsuit against Bo that was served when he visited abroad, and follows the lawsuits in seven other countries including the USA, the UK, Ireland and Russia.
Exposing Atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp
A representative of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong read the second investigative report on mass killing in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. The report confirmed that "Shenyang City's Sujiatun Chinese Medicine Hospital of Liaoning Province: Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, (for short: Thrombosis Hospital) illegally contains a crematorium, which is suspected of cremating the bodies to destroy the evidence. There is an unusually large group of living organ providers in Shenyang Area. The Sujiatun-style concentration camp is not the only case. In many areas in China, there have been discovered a large number of cases of harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners' organs for transplant."
Former surgeon Yuan Hong who has been living in Sydney for many years once worked at the No. 1 Hospital affiliated with the Chinese Medical University in Shenyang. He confirmed that the hospital started kidney transplant operations in the early 90s, and that the source of kidneys were from death-roll prisoners. He was aware that organs harvested from death-penalty criminals for organ transplants included hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers and other organs. The on-site organ transplant operations were approved by the authorities in advance, and were performed in cooperation with prisons and police. People in China do not think that such acts are illegal and a violation of human rights.
  Representatives of the Refugee Action Coalition speak at the press conference |
Representative of the Refugee Action Coalition asked that continued attention be focused on the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, especially the horrible incidents like Sujiatun. She called upon Australian members of parliament and the Australian government to investigate, and hoped that the media would speak out. She criticized the Australian government for not attaching enough importance to human rights.
During Wen Jiabao's Visit to Australia, Falun Gong Practitioners Hold a Series of Peaceful Protests
  Standing on the roadside opposite the hotel where Wen Jiabao stayed |
  Tourists stop to learn about the persecution against Falun Gong |
During Wen Jiabao's visit to Australia, Falun Gong practitioners held a series of peaceful protests. On April 1, when Wen Jiabao and his entourage arrived at the first stop--Perth, and on the evening of April 2, when Wen Jiabao and others arrived at the military airport in Canberra, as well as on several roads where Wen Jiabao's motorcade passed by in Canberra, Falun Gong practitioners held many banners, and held a candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra to mourn the Falun Gong practitioners who have died as a result of the CCP's persecution.
Category: Organ Harvesting
