An ethnic Chinese adherent of the Falun Gong, Mr. Gao Chunman, has been seized by Russian authorities and is believed to be at imminent risk of deportation to China, the Falun Dafa Information Center has learned.
With assistance and support from the U.S. State Department, Members of Congress and several NGOs, Ms. Weixun Li arrived in the U.S. last week as a UN refugee. Li had fled China where she had been tortured to the brink of death.
Ottawa ? Before the annual United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) convenes next Monday, a letter writing campaign among MPs and a Montreal signature collecting campaign to urge the Prime Minister to table a resolution condemning China?s persecution of Falun Gong have gained strong support.
Today, citizens and residents from Canada, the US, France, Australia, Ireland and Hong Kong jointly submitted a legal case against Communist Party Head Jiang Zemin and two other top Chinese officials to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in instigating and carrying out the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.