Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese spiritual discipline that incorporates gentle exercise and moral teaching but in China there is mounting evidence that practitioners have been targeted by police and have also been the subjects of human organ harvesting for China’s transplant business.
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Despite most Chinese being unwilling to donate organs, there is only a two to three week wait for organ transplants with an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 transplants per year in the last 15 years, Falun Gong practitioner, Ni Yan said.
Both the European Parliament and the US House of Representatives have made strong statements calling on China to stop organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience such as the Falun Gong practitioners.
Now Australian groups have taken to the road to raise awareness and call on the Australian government to urge China to stop the practise of organ harvesting. They are part of a 200 town SOS car tour and on Tuesday morning were in Merimbula.
Included in the group were three people, now Australian residents, who said they had been targeted by police while living in China.
Changzhi Yue is 78 said that in 1999 she was detained for four years in Beijing Women’s Prision where several points on her spine were fractured and her hip deformed due to beatings.Yanping Wu said she was also tortured and beaten for her beliefs and David Liang was shot after a protest meeting in South Africa.
Falun Gong practitioners have the support of The Greens MP, David Shoebridge in the NSW upper house.
