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On the afternoon of December 7, 2006, practitioners from Sydney and Canberra held a rally and press conference in front of the Singapore Embassy in Australia to protest the Singapore government’s guilty verdict against two Falun Gong practitioners. The verdict ignores the Singapore constitution, and violates the law in Singapore and international conventions simply to flatter the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Austrian Falun Gong practitioners strongly urged the Singapore government to correct this undermining of human rights, and to release the two innocent Falun Gong practitioners, Ng Chye Huay and Erh Boon Tiong, immediately.
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 Rally in front of the Singapore Embassy |
Practitioners presented banners in both Chinese and English reading "Singapore, Don’t Be the CCP’s Accomplice in the Persecution of Falun Gong" and "The Singapore Government Should Drop the Irrational Charge against Falun Gong Practitioners." Many passers-by understood the truth. Many drivers honked to greet practitioners.
Mrs. Dai Zhizhen and Xie Yan, the representatives of Falun Gong practitioners from Australia, gave speeches at the rally. They called upon the Singapore government not to help the CCP do evil. They said that the whole world is paying attention to this case and they hoped the Singapore government would make the right decision. Mr. Colleen, the host of the press conference, said that Singapore is a democrat country and it has laws. The judge's refusal to accept the evidence provided by Falun Gong practitioners was unfair and irrational, and he delivered an unjust verdict.
Practitioners delivered a protest letter from the Falun Dafa Association in Australia to the Singapore Embassy, urging the Singapore authorities to immediately drop the charges against the two unreasonably detained Falun Gong practitioners and to release them.
In the protest letter, practitioners pointed out that the
Singapore government’s charge against Falun Gong practitioners is a
serious mistake. For its own benefit, the Singapore government should
correct this mistake and apologize to the practitioners. The freedoms
of belief, speech, and gathering are protected by the international
convention on human rights. Practitioners called upon the Singapore
government to act as do most governments in the world, by requesting
that the CCP stop the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and
protect basic human rights. Practitioners hope that the Singapore
government understands that the persecution against Falun Gong is a
serious mistake and releases the two practitioners. Practitioners
expressed hope that the Singapore government would uphold the basic
values of freedom and democracy and make the correct decision.
On December 7, 2006, representatives from the Russian Falun Dafa Association came to the Singapore Embassy in Russia to hand in a protest letter regarding the Singapore court’s poor verdict against two Falun Gong practitioners. They strongly condemned the Singapore authority’s shameful conduct, whereby the Singapore court sentenced two innocent Falun Gong practitioners to jail for peacefully protesting against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The letter calls for an immediate release of the illegally imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners and urges the Singapore authorities to stop aiding and abetting the tyranny of the CCP in their own country. We know their actions were done to gain favor with and flatter the CCP. The letter was also sent to the Singapore Embassy by email in advance.
Because the Ambassador was not available, an attaché in the Embassy received the representatives of Falun Gong practitioners. The attaché accepted the protest letter and other truth-clarification materials about Falun Gong, and listened to Falun Gong practitioners’ opinions, especially the truth about the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong and their defamations of Falun Gong. The attaché expressed that he will certainly pass the letter to the related department of the Singapore government, and said he would give an official response to the Russian Falun Dafa Association.
The Russian Falun Gong practitioners expressed that they will continuously pay attention to this incident: if the Singapore government does not correct this wrong verdict, they will continue to come to the Embassy and see the ambassador to protest.