By Swiss practitioners

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 6 2004, at the fifty-sixth session of the UN's Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, (1) regarding Item 6: "Specific Human Rights Issues," a representative of International Educational Development brought before the meeting the lawsuits filed by Falun Gong practitioners outside China and expressed her organization's support for the action taken by the practitioners. The following is an excerpt of her statement:

A representative of International Education Development speaks during a meeting of the 56^th session of the sub-commission on promotion and protection of human rights.

" In our statement under this item in 2001 we presented the "State Terrorism" in China regarding the millions of Falun Gong practitioners. Since that time, courts in the United States have ruled against officials in China who were served while in the United States for gross violations of human rights against Falun Gong practitioners. Our organization participated in several of these successful legal actions. We are now pleased to report that courts in Tanzania have shown the same inclination to allow domestic legal action, as on the 3rd August 2004 a Tanzanian court issued a preliminary judgment against a member of the Chinese state council. We also note the shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa on the 28th June 2004. This victim is an Australian, who had arrived in South Africa to file criminal lawsuits against Chinese officials visiting South Africa who are alleged to be responsible for the office in China responsible for the reign of terror against Falun Gong. We are pleased that the authorities in South Africa are investigating this. However, we must point out that the Chinese authorities have pursued Falun Gong practitioners outside of China for some years."

(1) The Sub-Commission is the main subsidiary body of the UN's Commission on Human Rights.

Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200408/21453.html

Posting date: 8/19/2004
Original article date: 8/19/2004
Category: Worldwide Support
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/15/81849.html

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