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Western Falun Gong practitioners appeal on Tiananmen Square
for the rights of Falun Gong in China
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At 2:00pm Beijing Time, 20/11/2001,
approximately 35 citizens from 10 different countries, including
Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, France, Israel
and the UK, staged a peaceful appeal on Tiananmen Square
in Beijing for the rights of Falun Gong practitioners. The
practitioners were immediately detained and held at the
Tiananmen Square Police Station.
In a statement issued by the practitioners shortly before
the demonstration, they stated that they were gathering
to appeal for the tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners
persecuted in China over the past two and a half years,
and to show that the international community is deeply concerned
about this atrocity.
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Kay
Belonogoff
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Kay Belonogoff recalled her 23-hour
ordeal:
- I was eyewitness to many acts
of violence and aggression initiated and carried out by
Chinese police, including the beating of another Australian.
- I was violently pushed into a
van, my hair was pulled and I received a large dark bruise
on my upper left arm.
- I was denied any privacy to use
the toilet for over 17 hours.
I ask of the Australian government:
1. To deplore the treatment of Australian
citizens by the Chinese police.
2. To speak up for human rights to end to state terrorism
against Falun Gong in China.
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Chris
Cominos, who was injured the most among the practitioners
in this ordeal in Beijing.
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Mr Cominos was held for more than
26 hours before he was taken to his scheduled flight to
Athens.
"They were very unreasonable,
verbally abusive, I was pushed, pulled, punched in the face
and on the body. I held onto the police van and they pulled
two of my fingers bent backwards causing a hairline fracture
in my left hand which was diagnosed by the doctor later."
"I called out that Falun Dafa
is good…, upon hearing this comment the police immediately
became extremely aggravated and one of them punched me in
the face giving me a bloody nose. They then continued to
roll my coat over my head covering my face and putting their
hands over my mouth so that I wouldn't speak or breath for
a while."
"It was not possible to make
truth, compassion and tolerance illegal."
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Myrna
Mack (Photo Source:AAP)
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"In
an effort to awaken the minds of the Chinese population
that is being mislead by the vicious poisonous propaganda
campaign that was launched in 1999, I have made this decision.
As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I feel it is my duty to
travel to Beijing and join other western practitioners.
To make it known that Falun Dafa is good and is every
where and it belongs to everybody."
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Kate
Douglass
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Ms Douglas was one of the practitioners
who was jailed before being moved to a hotel near Beijing's
airport.
"We were locked in a tiny cell with no ventilation,
35 people were deprived of our basic human rights and
treated like criminals."
"I wanted to raise awareness about the persecution,
they are killing practitioners, they are sending them
into mental institutions, heavily overdosing them with
drugs as well, they are beating them severely."
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Australians'
Appeal for Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square
2002
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group of Australian Falun Dafa practitioners that were detained
after their peaceful appeal for human rights in Tiananmen
Square are due to arrive back early this morning at the
Sydney airport.
Some have been punched and kicked,
both at the time of their arrest and during their detention
and interrogation by Chinese police.
The so-called "law" used
to persecute Falun Dafa in China is against its own Constitution
and the whole process of making such law is illegal as
well. As the law of Nazi's killing of Jewish was opposed
by people all over the world, Jiang Zemin's such illegal
"law" is not recognized by people with justice
either and has been defined by International Education
Development of United Nations as "state terrorism".
Australian practitioners went to China simply for clarifying
such a fact to those who are deceived by Jiang's propaganda
against Falun Gong.
Name List of Practitioners who
went to Tiananmen Square:
- Jan Becker (Australian Olympic
Swimmer Tokyo 1964)
- Michael Molnar
- Candice Molnar
- Greg March
- David Bryceson
- Stuart Martin
- Denice Johnson
- Merilyn Ford
- Ravati Ford
- David Rubacek
- Jarrod
- Emma
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