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Central News Agency: Canadian MPs Ask Prime Minister to Urge China to Release Falun Gong Practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) Central News Agency reported on August 29, 2007 that
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) summit to be held in Australia. Canadian MPs and others have
started a petition calling for the Prime Minister to urge Hu Jintao to
immediately release imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, particularly family
members of 16 Canadian Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China, during the
APEC summit. The Falun Dafa Association of Canada held a press conference recently on
Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Mr. Li Xun, president of the Canadian Falun Dafa
Association, hosted the conference. Canadian MP Wayne Marston and
representatives of the Canadian families that have practitioner relatives
imprisoned in China attended the press conference. Mr. Marston said that he accompanied Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ma Kai
on a visit to China this year, and paid particular attention to the family
members of the 16 Canadian Falun Gong practitioners who are being imprisoned and
tortured. He called on Harper to urge Hu Jintao during the APEC summit to
immediately release these people and help them to be reunited with their loved
ones in Canada. Mr. Li Xun displayed the petition containing more than 12,000 signatures from
Canadian people at the press conference. He said that the 12,000 Canadians, who
love freedom and democracy, and value human rights, had signed the petition
letter to Harper within two weeks. They hope that Harper will take advantage of
the opportunity during the APEC summit to ask Hu Jintao to release detained
family members of Canadian practitioners and stop the persecution of Falun Gong. On Parliament Hill Square, besides presenting the petition, practitioners
also demonstrated the exercises and presented a reenactment of the harvesting of
organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, as well as the torture and
persecution imposed upon imprisoned practitioners, all at the hands of the
Chinese Communist Party. Their performance attracted a large crowd of people,
and many more people signed the petition.
Posting date: 9/1/2007 |