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Breaking News – The Australian judiciary system pressured to halt lawsuit against Chinese official.

On November the 13th 2007, the Attorney General Department of Australia took an interest and tried to intervene in the lawsuit case filed by Falun Gong practitioners against Chen Shao-Ji, the Chairman of Guangdong Provincial Politics and Consultation Committee, the former Director of Guangdong Provincial Politics and Law Committee after they received a letter from the Communist regime that intended to seek intervention at New South Wales Supreme Court for default judgement in the absence of the defendant who has been ignoring the lawsuit filed adversely to him. The attorney representing the plaintiff in court requested the Attorney General Department to deliver the context in letter for the intervention of the case on 22nd of November. The court hearing will be re-opened on the 26th November.

Since the lawsuit case filed for anti-humane torture against Chen Shao-Ji who had not responded to the summon of the court as a defendant, the plaintiffs are entitled to request the court of law for default verdict, based on the Australian legislation.

The presence of the Attorney General Department of Australia during court took the Attorney Angela Ketas by surprise, who acted on behalf of the plaintiff at court. She told the reporter of SOH Radio that the Attorney General Department received a letter from the Communist regime and handed the letter to the judge of the court in an attempt to halt a default verdict to be issued during court that favours the plaintiff.

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Attorney Ketas indicated that the defendant could enjoy foreign immunity if the case did not fall in category of violent abuses of human rights. She was confident that default judgement could be reached, as the Australian law and legislation would protect a court proceeding in absence of the defendant.

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When being asked for the chance to reach the default judgement by the court, Attorney Ketas displayed her faith in the Australian law that as the case complies with criterions for the court to reach a default verdict, she expressed her hope and confidence that the decision is inclined to be made by the court of law.

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The legal assistant of the plaintiff, Kelly Zhan, expressed that the letter delivered by the Communist regime to the Attorney General Department of Australia revealed its fear of the default verdict in absence of the defendant, which lead up to its pressurizing the Australian Government for intervention.

One of the Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, a Falun Gong practitioner, Xie Yan, disclosed that she had been suffered tremendously over a two-year and three months detention period. She accused Chen Shao-Ji as one of the culprits in persecuting Falun Gong adherents. She said that as a plaintiff in this case, her ordeals at the brainwashing class, subject to the brutal physical and mental tortures, lead her to sue Chen Shao-Ji.

It is known that the NSW Supreme Court made a default verdict at a court case against the former Liaoning Provincial Governor of the Communist regime, which allows the plaintiff, a Falun Gong practitioner, to seek indemnity from the defendant, a Communist official. Overseas media believed that the default verdict reached in this case is seen as a heavy blow and growing threat to the individual officials of the Communist regime who plot and or participate in the persecution, as how the Communist regime reacted to the lawsuit case against its official, Chen Shao-Ji have already explained its well-grounded fears.

The above news is brought to you by Julia Ye, reported by Erin Toirkens and Jenny Settle for Breaking News on Sound of Hope Radio Network.