Human rights campaigners call for new 2008 Olympics venue
Associated Press
Oct 25 12:27 PM US/Eastern
Associated Press
Oct 25 12:27 PM US/Eastern
Dear Secretary General,
The promotion of this United Nations resolution and vote by China and other nations has done nothing to correct China’s policies. China continues to persecute its citizens and deny important and basic human rights. China’s record, in reality, has not improved, but worsened, in recent years, since gaining Olympic endorsement. The most recent and tragic example is the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Nobel Peace nominee, and human rights attorney, Gao Zhisheng. Examples of rights violations, organ harvesting, and commercial exploitation of the poor or disenfranchised are blatant. China has a vast network of forced labor camps, where Christians, Protestants, Falun Gong practitioners, human rights advocates and political dissenters are imprisoned, tortured and murdered. The number of Falun Gong practitioners who have been killed is now estimated at over 3,000. he number of Falun Gong adherents in forced labor camps is greater than 250,000. Their status, health and treatment is largely unknown, and many have themselves fallen ill, only to become victims of organ harvesting for profit. This UN vote is nothing more than a disguise and license to continue abhorrent and genocidal practices, backed by the insensible and collective denial of rest of the nations of world, similar to the denial of Holocaust after WWII.
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 31, 2007
Clay Lucas
October 31, 2007
EVERYONE is welcome in Melbourne, according to Lord Mayor John So. Except Falun Gong.
By Dimitri Bruyas
China Post: TAIPEI, Taiwan
October 30, 2007
Local doctors who have helped a visiting Chinese doctor solicit Taiwan patients for liver transplants in China will be subject to legal penalties, officials with the Cabinet-level Department of Health (DOH) and Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday.
Rebiya Kadeer, a Uyghur activist, speaks about the ongoing treatment of her people in China, with the threat of planned transmigration and the disappearance of the Uyghur culture ever increasing.
Ben Zgodny is a spokesman for the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong. He joins us to talk about the Global Human Rights Torch Relay that his organization launched, and about the efforts to raise human rights awareness in China.