SYDNEY, Australia—Three prominent Chinese democracy advocates were among the hundreds of supporters of the Falun Gong spiritual moment who rallied in Sydney on Sunday July 19 to commemorate the movement’s tenth year of persecution in China.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) instigated the crackdown on Falun Gong, a popular Buddha school exercise and mediation practice, on July 20 1999. Since that time there have been over 3000 confirmed deaths in custody while tens of thousand have been tortured, held in detention centres or re-education through labour camps and prisons.
Prior to a rally held near Sydney’s Chinatown hundreds of supporters of Falun Gong and the ‘Tuidang’ quit the CCP campaign to assist mass withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party paraded through the centre of the city.
Organisers of the Tuidang campaign say that total numbers of Chinese who have quit the CCP are over 57 million and increasing.
