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The Australian Senate has voted unanimously to end the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group in China, condemning what humanitarian groups call the worst human rights crisis currently facing China. The motion, moved by Greens Senator Ms Kerry Nettle, was passed unanimously in the Senate on Tuesday. The vote represents the first time that the Senate has publicly supported an end to the persecution by the Chinese communist regime. Falun Gong spokesperson Kay Rubacek says that this is the first statement by the Australian Government in support of an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. She thinks Australia has made a historic step, aligning the government s position with that of many other Western democracies around the world. Mrs. Rubacek also said that this is not only a statement in itself, but this will immediately impact positively on the people of China. She says that International condemnation of the persecution is the most effective way to stop the torture and killing. (more )

It seems the violence towards Falun Gong practitioners has spread from Flushing New York to Sydney. A month ago in Flushing New York at the Quit the Chinese Communist Party Centre, a large group of Chinese, physically assaulted Falun Gong practitioners, also tearing their banners and shouting insults at them. All the while Falun Gong practitioners remained calm and avoided this harassment. Mr. Charlie Ni, who is a resident in Sydney, was handing out the newspaper “Vision China” at Taylor’s College and was assaulted by a student.

Welcome to Stages of the East. Tonight marks the last of three of the Chinese Spectacular shows performing at the Canberra theater center Canberra, Australia. The Chinese Spectacular continues to receive outstanding praise from audiences around the world. Please listen to one of the interviews done by SOH Reporter Ben Smith on some of the comments that audiences members Megan and Michelle Bishop made. (more )

Welcome to Stages of the East. Tonight marks the first of three of the Chinese Spectacular shows performing in Canberra, Australia. The Chinese Spectacular continues to receive rave reviews from audiences around the world. (more )

Join the SOH news team for a wrap up of the most crucial news from China for the week

Weekly Summary of the real headlines from China.

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Join us this week for a startling array of news direct from China. The SOH news team brings you the need to know headlines in this bulletin

This week we change up the format of EOC and hear some of the original SOH narrators presenting the stories.

Following the detention of China’s human rights advocate lawyer, Hu Jia, his defending lawyer, Li Jingsong, has been closely monitored by plainclothes police officers and prevented from getting out of his house. On 27th of December last year, Beijing Police Bureau detained Hu Jia under the criminal charge of “suspension of inciting to overthrow the government”. Afterwards, Hu Jia’s wife, Zeng Jinyan was placed under house arrest. Zeng Jinyan’s communication with the outside world was cut off completely; she was neither allowed to step outside the door nor allowed to accept any visitors. Li Jingsong had met 56 writers, lawyers and academics who jointly petitioned and called for Beijing to fulfil its promise of improve human rights when bidding for the Olympic Games, and release Hu Jia immediately. (more )

Reports by Ming Pao newspaper on the 5th of January, indicate that a metal processing and chemical fertilizer plant in Dushan District was suspected of illegally manufacturing sulphuric acid and that it discharged huge amount of effluents that contained highly toxic arsenic into Duliu Jiang River, which is an important tributary of Xi Jiang River of Guangdong province. The pollution has resulted in an arsenic content in the river more than one hundred times higher than normal levels. At least forty villagers have been hospitalised due to poisoning, and many animals have died. Also the Sandu District water plant at downstream was forced to close for more than ten days, and over one hundred thousand people along the river stream had their water supply cut off. (more )

This week, 50 year old farmer aquitted after 10 years in Jail, Hong Kong surges toward true democracy, and a Special update on the Chinese performance, Holiday Wonders. Last week a fifty years old farmer, Hao Jinan, from China’s Henan province, left the jail where he was held for nearly 10 years on false charges. At the beginning of 1998, Hao Jinan was a suspect in a robbery and murder case. He confessed under inquisition by torture, and was sentenced to death with a postponed execution. He was finally released one year after the police arrested the real killer. While in jail, Hao Jinan unknowingly underwent surgery. Not until several days ago, after his release, and after undergoing a health check-up in a hospital that he was told by the doctor that his spleen had been removed. (more )

In this bulletin 63 year old human rights activist to spend 3 years in jail, Taiwanese Vice President condemns organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and up to a million Chinese threaten an Olympic boycott (more )

This week in the headlines from China, Is Bird flu on the move again?, Teachers forced to buy the daily communist Newspaper, and Reporters without borders banned from China. In Hong Kong a wild heron has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, prompting authorities to close a bird reserve on the border with China on Friday. Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the grey heron, a migratory species, was found sick on December 5th near the reserve. It later died and tests confirmed it was infected with the H5N1 avian influenza. As a precaution the Mai Po Nature Reserve was closed to visitors for three weeks. The incident has occurred a week after a 24-year-old Chinese man from eastern Jiangsu province died last week of bird flu in the first case in China since June. (more )

In this episode of Edge on China, toxic chemicals found in Chinese food exports, human to human bird flu transmission fears arise, and China forces Miss Tibet out of beauty pageant. In the latest scare over the safety of Chinese exports, one of China’s largest and most well known food companies has halted exports of all tinned food, after toxic chemicals were found in canned meat products. Food safety officials in Hong Kong have discovered a banned antibiotic, nitrofurans, in tins of Maling brand pork luncheon meat and pork ribs. This year has seen massive recalls of Chinese made toys, tyres and food products from the overseas market and the government in Beijing has come under increasing pressure to regulate the safety of Chinese-made products. (more )

Yuan Wei-Jing, the wife of the blind human rights activist Chen Guang-Cheng, wrote an open letter to the state heads on the twenty-second of November. She shared her consent of Hu and Wen to be concerned with the life of the common people and to run the country by law. Yet, the officials at the grass roots level simply ignored the policy. With her own experience, she exposed how the Shandong authority is breaching the law. Chen Guang-Cheng is a popular blind legal worker, who once won the title “The One Hundred Influential Individuals of the World” published in the American Times. Before the authorities incarcerated him, he had been striving for the rights of farmers and the disabled, providing legal aide for many common folks in need of help. Since Chen’s imprisonment, his wife has been closely watched, kidnapped and bashed violently. She is deprived of her rights to visit her husband in jail, and barred from seeing a doctor. (more )

In this bulletin German State television exposes Organ trade, Chinese espionage poses great risk to US technology, and Beijing Olympics to allow only one bible per person but a total ban on Falun Gong books. On the 13th of November, Channel Two of the German State Television exposed an insider’s story about an international company headquartered in Hong Kong, which engages itself in the global trade of human organs. (more )

The Human rights torch relay made its trip around the rest of Queensland after visiting Brisbane, touching down in the Sunshine Coast, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns, and the Gold Coast. The support from local Politicians, NGO s, and human rights groups was enormous. In this show hear speeches from Joe Natoli the Mayor of the Maroochy Shire Council, and Cr Dawn Crischlow from the Gold Coast. Visit the Human Rights Torch Relay Website 

This week the top headlines include, Chinese consulate tries in vain to thwart Human Rights Torch Relay in Brisbane Australia, Chinese Human rights Lawyer Gao ZhiSheng is heard from for the first time since his abduction, and startling open letter calling for the end to the persecution of Falun Gong surfaces in China .Play the show for the whole bulletin.

The Human Rights Torch Relay arrived in Sydney, for the Australian leg of its journey. A day of activity surrounded the torch s arrival as it draws attention to the Chinese communist parity s gross human rights abuses in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Join us for an interview with Manly Mayor Dr Peter MacDonald as we talk about human rights in China The Epoch Times ran a comprehensive story with additional photos

In this Bulletin, US President Bush meets with Dalia Lama, Protests abound in China, and the Human Rights Torch Relay moves through Sweden

In this Bulletin Dalai Lama recieves the Congressioal Gold Medal, The Human Rights Torch Relay arrives in Gothenburg Sweden, and Mass Rallies in Hong Kong. China should view the Dalai Lama’s high-profile visit to Washington next week as a chance to listen to the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader who Beijing shuns as a Tibetan separatist, his envoy said Friday. Despite fierce Chinese lobbying, the Dalai Lama will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow, on Wednesday after being hosted at the White House by President Bush the day before. The award ceremony at the Capitol will be the first time Bush will have appeared in public with the Dalai Lama, who has visited the White House only for private meetings. (more )

In this bulletin China refuses to condem Burma slaughters, the European Parliment meets Chinese officials to discuss Falun Gong, and more petitioners persecuted. With nine people now reported dead as protests in Burma continue, the UN has announced it will send in a humanitarian force to try and quell the violence. The dead included eight protesters and a Japanese man, identified as a video journalist working for APF News - with 11 demonstrators and 31 soldiers hurt. The deaths came on the 10th day of protests, led by Buddhist monks. China issued a plea for calm in Myanmar on Thursday after refusing to condemn the military-run government at the United Nations, while European countries urged Beijing to put pressure on its diplomatic and economic ally to stop the violence. (more…)

In this bulletin, British journalist detained in Henan, new evidence of organ harvesting in china revealed in New Zealand, and the UN again blocks Taiwan’s bid to join UN. In another display of China’s tightening grip on national and international media, a British journalist was detained after interviewing a petitioner in Henan Province. The journalist for Radio Free Asia was allegedly held for six hours and released only after he handed over all the material he had gathered that day. Public Security officials also ordered the journalist to confess to breaking the law. The International media have again voiced their concern over China’s control of the press. (more…)

In the wake of Chinese Communist Party spies being caught infiltrating into western Internet databases, a senior CCP official says the regime has suffered “massive” losses of state and military secrets through the Internet.The official would give no details of either the stolen secrets or who was responsible, but experts are indicating that the secrets are supposedly from the Party’s Ministry of Public Security and propaganda offices. Details of how the information was leaked or lost have not yet been provided. (more…)

This week we look at the APEC forum in Sydney Australia as protesters take the opportunity to confront world leaders on human rights abuses, especially in China.

On the ninth of August the official launch of the Human Rights Torch Relay, an initiative led by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), has kicked off in Greece.Leading CIPFG member and Secretary-General of Interfaith International, Dr. Charles Graves, gave the first speech which was an account of the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the Falun Gong spiritual movement. There was a statement from U.K. Baroness Caroline Cox, calling out to the world to take a much harder line against the Chinese communist regime. The Human Rights Torch Relay will be traveling to over one-hundred cities in more than thirty-five countries around the world, bringing the attention to the human rights violations by the CCP and with the message that human rights abuses cannot co-exist with the Beijing Olympics. (more…)