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Organ harvesting links pressure Australian university

Organ harvesting links pressure Australian university

7:30 ABC News Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 29/04/2013 Reporter: Adam Harvey An Australian university is under fire for honouring a Chinese professor linked to China’s controversial organ transplant program. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Every year in China thousands of prisoners are executed and their deaths provide kidneys, lungs and livers for the...

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Falun Gong practitioner fights for asylum [Video]

 By The Australia Network News April 15, 2013 To watch the video, please click here. A Chinese man has sought protection in Australia after escaping alleged torture in his homeland. But despite the United Nation’s pleas for clemency, he is hitting legal hurdles in...

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Amnesty International USA: Free Chen Zhenping & Defend Freedom of Religion in China

Amnesty International USA: Free Chen Zhenping & Defend Freedom of Religion in China

By Amnesty International USA Falun Gong practitioner Chen Zhenping was detained in August 2008 and sentenced to eight-years behind bars. While imprisoned, she has endured brutal torture and ill-treatment- all because of her religious beliefs. Chen Zhenping is being denied access to legal representation. She has not seen her family since March 2009. Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners...

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Chinese Premier Promises Labor Camp System Reform

The Epoch Times By Rona Rui Epoch Times Staff At his first press conference on March 17, China’s new premier, Li Keqiang, announced that a plan will be released later this year to reform the controversial re-education through labor system. Other high-level officials in the Communist Party have made recent statements that are in line with Li’s pledge. The original announcement was made on Jan....

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Australians Rally Against China’s State-sanctioned Organ Harvesting

NTD Television The local Falun Gong community from all over Australia gathered on Wednesday for a rally in Canberra, the country’s seat of government. [Jansin Goldring, Falun Gong Practitioner]: “I’m from Melbourne, it took me ten hours to get here, but I think it’s a very worthwhile journey for me.” They are voicing their concern about state-sanctioned organ harvesting...

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Falun gong practitioner harassed

Bangkok Post Published: 8 Mar 2013 at 15.09 Online news: An elderly falun gong practitioner says she was subject to rare harassment while doing her weekly meditation on a street opposite the Chinese embassy on Ratchadapisek Road on Friday morning. Jariya Ritdechawong, who is in her 70s, said was sitting cross-legged on the pavement in front of the True building opposite the Chinese embassy, as...

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