(Clearwisdom.net) Australia Human Rights lawyer Bernard Collaery has filed a lawsuit in the Canberra Federal Court against Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, for abusing the privilege of his position by continually issuing certificates for the last three years to restrain Falun Gong practitioners from displaying banners and playing exercise music in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, the nation's capital.
At noon on June 10, 2005, in front of Canberra Federal Court, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference. More than 10 major media gathered to report this news, including Channel 9, Channel 10, ABC, SBS, NTDTV, Canberra Times, Australia News center, AAP, AGB, Epoch Times, ABC radio, and others. q1q
Zhang Cuiying at the press conference
Three years ago, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yielded to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, disregarded human rights and justice, and signed a certificate prohibiting Falun Gong practitioners from displaying banners in front of the Chinese Embassy. The only reason given was that such activities were "against the dignity of the Chinese Ambassadors."
But if the criminal regime in China had any sense of dignity, they would stop persecuting their own citizens. Since 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party gained political power, they have caused eighty million Chinese people to die of unnatural causes. The brutality with which they persecute and murder Falun Gong practitioners is unmatched in human history.
In order to let people know the truth about Falun Gong and to protect human dignity, several years ago I went to China, but I was put into a Chinese prison four times. In prison, I risked my life to write the truth on my T-shirt. Each time I did so I was subjected to the severe persecution, beating, and humiliation. The first time, because I did not have a pen, I used toothpaste to write on a black T-shirt:
"Falun Dafa is great. Practicing Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is right. Neck can be broken, and blood can be drained, but Falun Dafa can never be taken away from me."
When the prison guards saw this, they locked me into a cell full or mentally disturbed men, criminals who beat, humiliated, and cursed me. While changing clothes or taking a shower, the men in the cell and the guards were all watching me. This is most insulting to a woman. Even now when I think about it, I cannot help shaking. This fully exposes the vicious nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
Later on, again I wrote on my clothes with toothpaste: "Evil Jiang, who suppresses Falun Gong, will go down as a criminal in Chinese history." When the guards saw it, they took off my clothes and forced me to stand naked in front of a closed-circuit TV camera monitored by all the male guards.
Before I got out of jail, on October 30, 2000 around 3 a.m., a kind- hearted inmate risked her own safety to lend me a pen. Using this ball pen I traced and traced for the whole night and finished this poem:
"Just because of saying some just words,
'Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa',
I'm illegally imprisoned for eight months,
suffering so much hardship
only for appealing for justice,
neck can be broken,
blood can be shed,
noble spirits and righteous heart will forever remain."
"Jiang's ghost suppresses Falun Gong;
he will go down as a criminal in Chinese History."
The purpose is to let the Chinese people know the truth of Falun Gong. Just as I expected in Guangzhou airport, everybody applauded and praised me. Because I am a citizen of Australia, the policemen dared not tear off my clothes in public as they usually did. Instead they got a camera and took pictures of me non-stop.
The Foreign Minister of Australia and the Australia Foreign Affairs Ministry all clearly knew about the inhuman torture that I suffered in China. When I was in jail, every day I took the risk of being beaten. I hid a piece of paper in my braid while brushing my hair. When the Australian consul in China visited me, I took the opportunity of shaking hands to pass the paper to him. He transferred it to my husband. This was the only way that I could get a message to my family.
In jail, the torn blanket I tried to keep warm with was full of mold, and I slept on the cold cement floor. After several months, my whole body was full of red bumps, and pus and blood covered my clothes. Frequent burning pain and itching made life hard to endure. In addition, I was carrying a foot shackle weighing more than 30 kilos (over 65 pounds), and it became tighter and tighter all the time. It cut into my flesh. The pain was really difficult to endure. I went on a hunger strike for over 50 days, during which I was dizzy the whole time. The leader of the guards looked at me and somewhat to my surprise he said: "Drop dead! You are inferior to a dog." The head of the prison personally came with his assistants to my cell and beat me. My whole body was full of bruises everywhere. Nonetheless, Mr. Downer knew all of these the details very well, but he still sacrificed human rights for economic benefit to please the CCP. This is extremely unwise conduct. It not only hurts himself but also the Australian people as well. Moreover, I believe he will not gain any economic benefit at all. Because in doing any business with this Chinese Communist regime, which disregards honor and justice, how can you gain any thing from it? Actually, there are international trade laws between nations; you really do not have to sacrifice human rights and democracy to do business with the CCP.
Mr. Chen Yonglin and Mr. Hao Fengjun said the Chinese Communist Party has more than 1,000 special agents and informants operating in Australia. The Communist Party not only inhumanely persecutes its own people in China, now across the ocean they also openly and shamelessly persecute Australian citizens.
From July to December of 1999, when I was protesting in front of the Chinese Embassy in Sydney, my car tires were slashed many times, and my windshield knocked out frequently. This February, some one put a bloody dead cat in my front door. The cat's blood went into the floor, and even now the stain still there, and cannot be removed. Every day I feel sick when I see it, and my daughter is frightened to see it.
For the eight months I was in prison, the Chinese Communist Party sent spies to snoop around my house in Australia. My neighbor even noticed it. It brought my family, especially my daughter, a tense life. They also harassed us on the phone, which can be easily found in the records at the local police department.
There are so many things I cannot talk about in detail here, but I sincerely hope all the Chinese Communist special agents will follow Mr. Chen Yonglin and Hao Fengjun to step forward and expose the CCP. Do not be scapegoats for the CCP, who ignore their conscience to persecute innocent people. Also I sincerely hope the Australian government will quickly clean up these lawless elements who endanger Australian society.
I hope Australians in all circles and the media can stand up to stop the Foreign Minister's unlawful conduct, and let Australia forever feel proud of its respect for democracy, human rights, freedom, and belief. Do not let Australia become an accomplice of the CCP, become the CCP's political colony. That is the fundamental reason why I am suing the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer.q2q
The dead cat the CCP used to intimidate Zhang Cuiying, and the damaged parts of the car
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