On April 26, 2007, whilst Chou was petitioning in Beijing, he was taken against his will to Dalian Public Security Ankang Hospital. He was cruelly operated on and the hospital staff severed his arteries in an attempt to fake his suicide.

The 56 year-old man used to be a worker for Harbin Chemical Plant and started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. He benefited both physically and mentally after practicing, with a variety of diseases including bronchitis and hypertension being reported to have disappeared.

In order to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, Mr Bai went to appeal in Beijing and was detained for 15 days in July 1999 when the CCP started to suppress Falun Gong.
Mr Bai was detained illegally for one year in July 2001. He was kidnapped with his wife again while they visited their neighbors on August 30, 2002. Bai’s relatives were informed that Bai would be detained for three years without any legal procedures. Afterwards Bai was also hijacked and persecuted at Harbin Wanjia Labour Camp, one week after he was sent to Changlinzi Labour Camp.

The police forced Bai into conducting a so-called “transformation” there. He was tortured terribly and had to work till 12 o’clock midnight everyday for his belief in “Truth, Compassion and Forbearance”. He suffered hypertension, severe heart failure and stagnant chest water, even though he was denied to rest until others has finished.

Since the labour camp did not want to take responsibilities for his suffering and injuries, they sent him back home on December 1st, 2004.

Under great pressure by local police and officers after he was sent back home, his condition worsened and he died on August 30, 2007.

The above news is brought to you by Cheng Rong and Chris Thomas for Breaking News on the SOH Radio Network.

Zhang hoped President Bush will be able to effectively improve the human rights situation in China ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games.

On the 14th of September, 2006, Guo was arrested for the third time by local authorities, for his attempts to rescue lawyer Zhisheng Gao. Since then, Guo had not been released, and was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on the 14th of November 2006.

Qing Zhang revealed in her letter, during the lengthy 14 month imprisonment, Guo has maintained his innocence and protested through his refusal to make mandatory confessions. In order to obtain evidence of crime, the Chinese Communist Regime employed torture methods to extort his confession.

According to Zhang, during the time of his imprisonment, the various tortures inflicted on Guo included: continuous interrogation for thirteen consecutive days and nights without permission to sleep; restriction by fetters for more than one hundred days; being chained down to a wooden board for forty-two days; forced to wear the black head-wrap designed for prisoners on death row, before being taken to unknown locations for brutal beatings; being forced to sit on the ‘tiger bench’ torture device for up to four hours; electric shocks to his genitals with high voltage batons.

On the 13th of December 2007, Guo was sent to the Meizhou City Prison of Guangdong Province to serve the rest of his sentence. Zhang revealed that Guo suffered further beatings and maltreatment at that location, and thus decided to carry out hunger strike protest for one hundred days.

In his hunger strike declaration, Feixiong Guo requested that the Chinese Communist regime release all political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, Christians, and other prisoners of religion or belief. He also called for the Chinese Communists to allow Chinese people forced to go overseas in exile, to return to China and reunite with their families. Furthermore, he requested that the Chinese government abolish the re-education through forced labour system, and improve the human rights situation in China.

To conclude the letter, Qing Zhang called on President Bush to help bring an end to the Chinese Communist Regime’s political persecutions on dissidents like Guo. She also called for help from the international community.

The above news was brought to you by Cheng Rong, Chris Thomas and Jenny Chang for Breaking News on Sound of Hope Radio Network.

According to a petitioner, the prison is located in a deserted factory situated in a gully of a mountainous area in Bai-yun Village, within Shun-ping Township of Bao-ding City, Hebei Province. There’s a sign outside reading “Shun-ping Township Legal Education Class”. During the 17th Party Congress last October, over twenty petitioners were confined for over ten days with their cellular phones, personal belongings and identification confiscated. Some of them were arrested and escorted there while some were deceived to come to the sinister jail. One petitioner who exposed a corrupt court for accepting bribes and was sent to the prison for torture said that the court used its privileges to keep him in the sinister jail.

Zhao Gui-xi, a petitioner from Rui-jin Township of Bao-ding City said that he was sent to the malicious jail by the High Court. He said that officers there bashed him everyday and maimed him seriously. Afterwards, he demanded the court pay for his medical bills but the court had refused his requests. He said that he suffered a punctured lung, three broken ribs and head trauma requiring stitches. He went on to say that the doctors wanted him to stay in a hospital for treatment, but because he had no money he discharged himself. He is pursuing medical aid unsuccessfully through the courts.

According to the petitioners who used to be detained there, the officers often dragged the detainees out in the yard in the cold near midnight, asking petitioners if they still wanted to appeal for justice. Anyone who said yes and refused to sign a guarantee letter to end his or her appeals would be beaten further.

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.

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In news just in from China’s Hubei Province, on the 28th December, nearly 100 workers of the Wuhan city vacuum factory blocked the road outside the factory to protest against the authorities forcefully relocating them and demolishing their houses before any agreement for relocation was signed.

So far, more than 50 households have lost their homes, and another 30 more families are facing the same fate.

We are awaiting news on the outcomes of the protests which are becoming commonplace in many rural communities in China.

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And now for SOH original news direct from China

Over one thousand residents of the Gold Bull District in China’s Cheng-Du City have been protesting outside the Long Chang Company complex for six days, demanding the return of assets that they believed were collectively owned.

According to a report over the web page of Daily Life Observation, due to the city planning and construction expansion in Cheng-Du, the rural construction system in the Golden Bull area was raised in 1996 with all households registries changed to urban residents.

The local cadres privatised the collective enterprise of Long Chang Company located in the area.

In response the local residents began to rally, protesting the minority’s privatisation and blocking the traffic outside the company, demanding the return of company assets to all members.

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Hu Jia, a prominent AIDS and human rights campaigner has been detained by Chinese police accusing him of subversion, in an apparent bid to stifle dissent ahead of the 2008 Olympics.

Attorney Teng Biao said that Mr. Jia was taken into police custody on Thursday, adding that Hu’s wife, AIDS activist Zeng Jinyan, has been prevented by police from leaving the couple’s Beijing home.

Zeng Jinyan said in an e-mail that Hu had been arrested on charges of “inciting to subvert the government”.

By 2017 Beijing will allow the special region’s people of Hong Kong to directly elect their leader and their legislators by 2020, as promised by Hong Kong’s chief executive.

Donald Tsang said the decision was a “most important step” in the political future of the former British colony, which became part of China in 1997.

The move comes after Mr. Tsang submitted a report requesting elections by 2012.

Hong Kong’s leader is chosen currently by an 800-member committee.

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The authorities in Shenzhen, Guangdong province in China have forcibly evicted and dismantled the resident’s private properties.

This has triggered massive clashes with the police, who have been using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the residents who are refusing to leave.

Some of the protestors have been arrested and nearly a hundred residents broke into the police station to release those who have been arrested.

Hong Kong “Sun Press” reported on the 28th of December that the authorities dismantled the properties at Liu Yue Village and Heng Gang Road in Long Gang Area.

According to sources, the compensation for the eviction is yet to be settled in court of law, whilst residents’ properties are already being dismantled.

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A mainland Chinese Falun Gong practitioner has revealed to the media that the Chinese Communist prison system has been over working imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, killing many in the process.

Many have died from mining accidents, and others have suffered permanent disabilities and blindness.

He said that during his six-year imprisonment he’d seen practitioners, between the ages of 30 and 70, being beaten and even killed, if they did not meet minimum production requirements.

Collusion among the prison, forensics and medical systems have deceived families of the Falun Gong practitioners’ to make illegal profits.

Although practitioners in Mainland China have been brutally persecuted under strict information control and censorship, facts of the persecution continue to penetrate overseas through different channels.

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In the lead up to elections in Taiwan, the Country’s parliament has passed its most extensive arms budget in years, as lawmakers strive to appear firm on national defence issues.

The 2008 defence budget, passed by the legislature last Thursday, includes funds for the controversial Hsiung Feng IIE cruise missile, a missile that can strike China.

Analysts say legislative elections in January and a presidential poll in March are shaping up as a contest over a Taiwan identity separate from rival China, which has claimed sovereignty over the island since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, and which has said that any attempts by Taiwan to become independent could result in war.

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Wrap up of Holiday Wonder for the, highlighting the shows success and feedback from the Audience.

Holiday Wonders had a huge week in the US leading into the New Year with performances in New York City, Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg Flordia and prestiguos Atlanitic City in New Jearsy. With a total of 12 shows in just 7 days between the 2 troupes the Diving Performing Arts performers were working hard to give a large overall audience a special send off for 2007.

The first shows kicked off in New York City on Monday the 24th of December at the Beacon Thearte on Broadway. On the eve of Christmas the audience had a special treat. Beacon Theartre hosted Holiday wonders daily through to the 26th of Dec when the show moved forward to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. New Yorkers were touched with this special Christmas present, Mr. Hongkuan Li, founder and editor-in-chief of the renowned pro-democratic Chinese electronic magazine Bignews who watched the show on Christmas day said the artistic level was very high and that especially the songs inspired the audience to think about the fundamental issues of life. He was also very happy to see a Chinese traditional performance during a Western holiday.

Florida was the next stop on the tour and the Broward Center for the Performing arts hosted Holiday Wonders. The Premier was an evening performance on the 27th of December. Jan Mitchell, a legal secretary from Fort Lauderdale when asked about the show afterwards said she tought it was wonderful, the colors, the costumes, the precision. She said it was all just perfect.
Claudio Lopez, from Italy, was in Fort Lauderdale on vacation and decided to see the show. Claudio said the show was his first experience with Oriental culture. Claudio said his favorite part of the show was a dance describing the repression suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China. He said it was quite a touching thing to see.”

Fort Lauderdale Hosted Holiday Wonders for 2 days with the Mayor James T Naugle presenting a certificate to the performers and proclaiming the 27th December as Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Wonders Day.

On the same day that Holiday Wonders had its closing performance in Fort Lauderdale, the second Troupe premiered at the Cirus Maximun Theater in Atlantic City, New Jearsey. Audience members were in awe of the show. Scott and Terri said, that they see a hundred shows a year and this is perfection. Perfection. In welcoming the troupe’s performances in Atlantic City, Mayor Scott K. Evans also proclaimed December 28-30 to be Holiday Wonders Weekend and describes the show as “pure compassion and beauty.” Atlantic city hosted 5 performances between the 28th and 30th of December.

And lets not forget St Petersburg, Florida which hosted performances on the 29th and 30th of December at the Mahaffey Theater. The final performance inspired rave reviews, especially of the drums, costumes, choreography, and the profound meaning found in traditional Chinese culture at its best.

Deborah Engel, of St. Petersburg summed it up. She found the show “absolutely beautiful.” She loved the grace and the message, and said she’d love to see it again. Her final comments were Wonderful! Absolutely fabulous!”

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

Chinese dissident Mr Yan Zheng-xue from Zhejiang Province was sentenced to three yeas in prison by the authority for suspected involvement in subversion and, according to sources in Zhejiang, his life is constantly under threat in prison.

According to reports of Free Asia on 19 December, Yan posted a letter to describe his life in prison where he is being detained with gang leaders, and says that his life is constantly threatened.

Eye witnesses have seen Yan badly bashed by a psychiatric patient in prison with a stool.

Mr Yan, aged 63, is an author, a painter, and a human rights activists, for which he has been detained for 13 times.

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Over eight thousands farmers from Shang Ma Tai County, in China’s Wuqing district, have been going to the construction site of Shang Ma Tai Reservoir, in an attempt to stop the construction and to defend their entitlement to about fifteen hundred acres of farmland, according to Tianjin sources.

The farmers are requesting that the government return and redistribute the farmland, which authorities seized in 1992.

According to a report by the Epoch Times, villagers revealed the Wu Qing and Shang Matain Village government took the fifteen hundred acres of fertile land and six villages including Dong Zhuang and Shang Matai village without the residents’ permission in order to construct the reservoir claiming it was required to fight drought conditions.

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On December the tenth, International Human Rights Day, the Coalition to investigate the persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) Asian Delegation, organized an event in Tainan City, Taiwan, to celebrate its first anniversary.

Taiwanese Vice President Annette Lu attended the event and gave a speech to condemn organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and other human rights abuses in communist China.

The event, titled “Taking Action to Safeguard Human Rights”, was aimed at raising awareness to the human rights violations in China and calling for public attention to promote peace, freedom and justice.

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An online commentator who openly criticized the Chinese Governments preparation for the Beijing Olympics has been detained for nearly a week on a charge of subversion, his wife said Wednesday.

Wang Dejia said next year’s Beijing Olympics would force ordinary Chinese to live “like pigs and dogs”.

Mr. Dejia has written numerous online articles about sensitive topics in China such as the Government’s effort in blocking Taiwan’s bid for U.N. membership and human rights abuses against journalists and dissidents.

Press freedom and human rights groups say China has jailed dozens of people for writings posted online.

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In yet another example of tainted products from China, a catfish product has been found to contain carcinogenic toxins as a result of the fish being bred in contaminated water.

Recently international media reported that an aquaculture company that enjoyed “immunity” in safety checks in America has breached safety standards by exporting the tainted products

As a result the European Union and Japan have imposed temporary bans on the import of aquaculture products from China.

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Yu-qing County in China’s Guizhou Province has established a “Guarantee against Corruption” campaign in an effort to prevent the practices of the corrupt CCP officials in the county.

After repeated instances of corruption amongst CCP officials, the county has decided to trial the program in an effort to encourage more moral behaviour amongst officials.

The campaign has met with mixed support, but supporters say it is the only way they can hope for an end to corruption.

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According to Dajiyuan reports, just recently a Hubei Falun Gong practitioner Liu Gang, which is his alias name, who was just released from prison, disclosed the inside story to the outside world how the Chinese Communist authorities persecute the Falun Gong practitioners in the prison.

He said that the arbitrary disinformation and slander of Falun Gong by the authorities convey false information; willful arrest and detention of the people who practice Falun Gong. Some of the practitioners are tortured to death.

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The Divine Performing Arts on Tour (DPA) arrived in Baltimore this week

They will perform the Holiday Wonders Chinese Music and Dance show at the Lyric Opera House

Ms. Peijong Hsieh, stage manager of the Holiday Wonders and a graduate from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, said that the troupe was very excited to perform in the city of Baltimore, which hosts many fine arts cultural events.

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According to Dajiyuan, it was reported that seventy-thousand farmers from Sanmenxia Reservoir of Yellow River in Shaanxi Province, announced to the whole nation, the attainment of their ownership of the 25,000 acres of land that had been seized.

Their movement had immediately raised great alert to the authorities of Shaanxi. For a few consecutive days, the authorities convened urgent meetings to stabilize the current situation in the area. They arrested three representatives of the farmers.

Due to the land issue, the representatives of the farmers had petitioned everywhere for help, but the local government imposed repressive policies to suppress the farmer’s representatives.

Many representatives had been imprisoned.

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Over ten thousand people from different provinces of China have issued an open letter, asking for the release of their representative, Liu Jie, and the abolition of the ‘re-education through forced labour system’ that they say violates the Country’s constitution.

The letter explained that Ms. Liu Jie united the protestors to give the 17th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party a letter of recommendation, however, she was illegally sentenced to forced labour term, being accused of “assembly and disturb the public order”.

The letter appealed to the central committee of the Communist party, asking them to respect the law, to care for the people, to release Liu Jie and immediately abolish the re-education through labour regulation.

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The death bed, a torture method originating from Jilin Prison, is frequently used to torture imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners at the Jilin Prison and Jilin Province Women’s Prison in Changchun City. Many Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death this way.

According to a Clearwisdom.net report on December the 11th, 2007, the death bed involves piecing together two twin-size beds and handcuffing or tying a practitioner’s hands and feet onto the four opposite corners of the two beds. After the practitioner is tied up, the beds are moved in opposite directions and bricks are inserted between the two beds. Each brick adds severe pain and injury.

Once tied to the death bed, the victim is unable to move her hands and legs. The beds can be pulled in various directions to cause additional pain and injury throughout the body.

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On the 14th of December, the victims of the “Yilishen” corporate collapse incident have sent a letter to the Chinese Communist regime saying that if they do not satisfy three basic requests, from January 6th, 2008, they will take action against the government officials and police officers involved in the incident.

The group also stated that they would organise for over one million of their supporters to boycott the Beijing Olympics in protest of their unfair treatment.

Their three basic requests were the return of at least 30% of their investment before the New Year, and agreement that the rest of the fund is indemnified gradually before the Olympic games, and that all the officials involved in the fraudulent case, including Wang Fengyou, must be brought to justice.

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.

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In China, Kong Qiang, the webmaster of the Human Rights Network, published an open letter to Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao and Wu Bangguo on the 6th December, asking them to conform with public opinion, to bring Jiang Zemin and the gang of Shanghai to justice.

Kong Qiang is a civil servant at the Administration Bureau for Industry and Commerce in Qufu City, Shandong Province.

When interviewed by The Epoch Times, Kong Qiang pointed out, that Falun Gong practitioners who sued Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing, Zhou Yongkang in many countries around the world, were a great inspiration to people in China.

He explained that the majority of victims in Jiang Zemin’s persecution are still in China, therefore lawsuit cases against Jiang must be allowed in China.

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Well known Chinese blog personality, Zhou Shuguang, was arrested by public security after reporting on the infamous Yilishen incident in Liaoyang city where the Yilishen company, a pharmaceutical producer, was closed and refused to pay debts to local farmers.

According to reports he was subsequently interrogated, and sent back to his hometown in Hunan province.

Radio Free Asia reported on the 7th Dec, that although the Yilishen incident has been reported widely overseas, and it has something to do with Bo Xilai – the governor, Chinese media have kept silent on the issue and local farmers have been prevented from protesting against their mistreatment.

It is expected that the Chinese authorities will try to cover up the Yilishen incident just as they have with the persecution of Falun Gong and the Tian Anmen Square Massacre in 1989.

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On Friday the 7th of December, the Global Human Rights Torch arrived in Wollongong. It started at the lighthouse with 1982 Commonwealth Games baton relay runner, Geoff Gregory running the first leg.

He then passed it on to Barry and Carolyn Armstrong, who then proceeded to run with the torch to the mall yelling ‘Freedom for China.’ Barry and Carolyn are strong supporters of the Human Rights Torch Relay.

At the mall a few other speakers voiced their support against the human rights abuses in China and then the torch was passed on to Goulburn.

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Fears of human-to-human transmission of bird flu have been raised after the father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has also been infected with the virus.

The World Health Organization said it could not rule out the possibility that the H5N1 virus had spread from the son to the father.

For the most part, humans have caught the virus from sick birds.

Scientists fear if the virus gains the ability to pass easily between humans, tens of millions of people could die.

A statement on the Chinese ministry’s website said a 52-year-old man in eastern Jiangsu province identified only by his surname, Lu, has been confirmed with the virus, just days after his 24-year-old son succumbed to it on the 2nd of December.

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The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) located in Geneva, Switzerland gave its annual “Housing Rights Violators Award” to countries that most seriously and systematically violated housing rights of its people.

This year, the recipients include China, Burma and Slovenia.

The COHRE said a recent trip to the Chinese capital confirmed an estimate it made earlier this year that 1.5 million people would be displaced by the time the 2008 Games are held.

The Chinese authorities however have denied that the residents in Beijing have been forcibly relocated and treated inhumanely.

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The Future China Forum has announced the formation of a Transient Chinese Government, which has ignited strong responses from the Chinese authorities.

Within only a few hours, human rights activists and violence resistance groups, pledged their support of the transient government asking to be delegated responsibilities.

The “Future China Forum,” are a group dedicated to bringing about a peaceful transition to democracy in China and believe a Transitional Government will expedite the collapse of China’s communist rule.

Earlier this month, the Forum issued a statement criticising the Communist Regime for its control of the media and the Internet, restriction of free speech, civil rights abuses, the persecution of activists, church members, and Falun Gong practitioners.

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China has been blamed for a Tibetan entrant in an international beauty pageant in Malaysia to be expelled from the event.

Tsering Chungtak said that China pressured the competition organisers to replace her “Miss Tibet” sash with one reading “Miss Tibet-China”.

When she refused, she claims, she was told she would have to leave the Miss Tourism Queen 2007 competition.

China governs Tibet as an autonomous region and swiftly clamps down on any suggestion of Tibetan nationalism.

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On December 3rd, 2007, in Zhaotong city of Yunan Province, four primary school students who shared a serving of instant noodles on the way back to school began to show symptoms of food poisoning and died soon after.

After the news spread, Internet bloggers began a new wave of criticism against the safety of food in China.

There were strong calls for the regime to investigate the incident in depth and to publicise the brand name of the lethal instant noodles.

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It’s been reported that Chinese state organisations may be spying on leading British firms and government agencies .

UK intelligence network MI5 has contacted 300 chief executives and security experts at banks and financial institutions to raise the concerns.

It is alleged that UK organisations may suffer a concerted cyber attack to gain commercially-sensitive data.
Zhao Shangse, an official from the Chinese embassy in London, has denied the allegations.
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According to reports from China’s Panshen County, three local policemen have detained and abused two Falun Gong practitioners.

Wang Jie-Ming and Zhang Da-Lin went missing over two weeks ago and after much searching by family members Wang was found under police guard at a local hospital suffering numerous abuse related injuries including bullet wounds, while Zhang is thought to be held and being tortured at Tuwei prison

These cases are representative of thousands of similar abduction and detention cases of Falun Gong practitioners across China who are detained and abused because authorities fear the peaceful practice is becoming too popular and a threat to the power of the Communist Regime.

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The results of the by-election for a legislative seat in Hong Kong were released early Monday morning.

Pro-democracy candidate Anson Chan, Hong Kong’s former Chief Secretary won the election over her rival, the former Hong Kong Chief of Security.
The Electoral Affairs Commission announced the vote count at 3:20 a.m. Monday morning.
Chan believes people in Hong Kong made the right decision and her win is a strong boost for the movement toward Hong Kong’s general suffrage.

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The Well known internet security Company McAfee released its annual report on November 29 stating that the Internet Cold War will be the biggest internet security threat to the safety of the internet to all countries in the future.
The report identified China as the main threat as it will proactively probe into the loopholes in the networks of different countries.
In 2007 80% of large scale cyber attacks on government websites are related to China while the United States Homeland Security and government agencies of Germany, India, Australia and New Zealand are main targets of the cyber attacks.

Lawyer Mo Shaoping told Sound of Hope, that Guo did not pursue an appeal, because he had lost confidence in the judiciary system run by the Chinese Communist Party.

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“He clearly indicated that he would not acknowledge the first trial of the case. This is because he is convinced the judiciary system is not independent, and is run by autocratic power. He also feels that if he serves his sentence in prison, then the case would be seen as concluded, but he believes it is deliberate persecution against him. Meanwhile he does hope his case can be settled.”

Guo’s wife Zhang Qing is strongly opposed to the court’s decision, and feels this case clearly illustrates the corruption of the judicial system, and the true situation of the human rights in China.

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“I strongly oppose to the five-year jail sentence made solely by the government. I feel this kind of thing cannot be tolerated. From my perspective, as a person who respects freedom, justice and human rights, I cannot accept this as a fact. In the process of this lawsuit, the corrupted officials from public security, procurator office and judiciary systems colluded with each other to extort confessions by inflicting tortures on him. The fact is that there is no channel to appeal, which bows down to the truth that no law can restrain the corruption and chaos in China where human rights is trashed, leading to countless innocent victims being incarcerated.”

Zhang Qing also said the court verdict has shattered the last strand of dream she held for the current regime.

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“I still hope that some officials from the regime would stand to speak the truth. But up until now, the reality is that no one from our government had dared to speak the truth. From the proceeding of this lawsuit, we can see that China really needs to change, and our government should know this change is essential. What is the point of carrying on like it is now?”

Zhang Qing revealed that she would be on hunger strike every Wednesday to protest against the judgment.

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“My hunger strike protest will not stop, I will carry it out to the end.”

She also expressed her refusal to remain silent, and that she is currently drafting an open letter to Hu Jintao.

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“What the letter discusses expounds the truth of Guo Feixiong’s case, and the corruption of public security, procurator’s office and judiciary system, which lead to this wrongful verdict in Guo’s case. The second point I will make is my hunger strike’s declaration and the reason for my hunger strike. Lastly I will call on the Chinese government to release him unconditionally, as this is a verdict made against the law (as a result of the colluded corrupt officials). I am currently writing a draft that will be completed soon.”

She is determined to let the world know.

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“Next, I will write to international organizations and the international society, and to relevant departments of the Chinese Communist regime. I will expose this to the international society every day. I will write to all the leaders of international communities, and fight to the end with all my efforts.”

According to Asian News, on November 14, 2007, South City Military Court in Guangzhou sentenced the human rights advocate, Lawyer Guo Fei-Xong to five years imprisonment, a fine of 40 000 RMB (Ren-Min-Bi) charged him with “illegal business operation”, which constitutes the article he issued on a local newspapers entitled “The Political Chaos in Shenyang”, where he condemned the corrupt officials of the Communist regime in Liaoning Province.

The above program is brought to you by Wang Qing, Chang Qing, and reported by Erin Toirkens and Jenny Chang for Breaking News on Sound of Hope Radio Network

The legal aide of the plaintiff’s lawyer, Kelly Zhan, stated that the attorney representing the plaintiff in court would revoke the intent of the certificate over the debate in the next round of court hearing, and also would remind the Australian Government of its commitment to upholding its principle of anti-inhumane torture. She said that the Australia is obliged to sue anyone who committed the crime of inhumane torture, regardless of the social status or nationalities of the culprits.

Kelly Zhan said in an interview with SOH that based on the nature of the crime Chen Shao-Ji committed, Chen should not be exempted under the Foreign States Immunities Act.

She said: [Recording]
“Chen Shao-Ji should be exempt from the protection of the Foreign States Immunities Act (FSI), as what he committed is a crime against humanity. If he is given the protection under the Foreign States Immunities Act, then, Hilter, back in 1950’s, should also be protected under the same rule? I think that the international society would not allow it.”

Kelly further expressed that as an UN member, Australia is obligated to carry out its agreement signed in 1988 for counter-inhumane tortures. As per the protocol signed, the perpetrators who committed inhumane tortures are exempt from the protection of the Foreign States Immunities Act.

She said: [Recording]

“Australia is also one of the countries in UN that signed the pact for anti-inhumane tortures, and as per law of Australia, it includes a clause that Australia is against inhumane tortures. In this circumstance, Australia has the responsibility to sue those who committed the crime of inhumane tortures, regardless of the culprits’ social status or nationalities.”

Ms. Xie Yan was illegally sentenced to a term of two-year and three-month imprisonment by the Communist Regime for distributing truth-clarification materials about Falun Gong. She expressed her regret for Foreign Minister Downer’s issuing the certificate. She pointed out that the Minister’s intervention would not befit the long-term benefits of Australians. She hopes that the Australian Government could have a clear perception about the nature of the Communist Party in China.

She said: [Recording]

“The Communist Party is at its last ditch tussle with temptations of money and favourable trade treaties before it comes to a total demise, aimed at victimizing the western countries as accomplices in its horrendous crimes against humanity. I hope that the Australian Government could protect its noble moral value in observing human rights, from the perspective of the Australian public, and steer away from temptation. In actuality, a myriad of Chinese people have already perceived clearly the nature of the Communist Party, and openly speak out for Falun Gong and air their righteous voices. I advise the Australian Government to recognize the very true nature of the Communist Party for the sake of Australian nation and not to be victimized by it”.

Since the defendant Chen Shao-Ji has not responded to the lawsuit filed against him, the plaintiff, by the court of law in Australia, is entitled to request the court to make a default verdict in the absence of the plaintiff. The Supreme Court of NSW will have a further court hearing on the 26th of November for this lawsuit when the legality and capacity of applying the Foreign States Immunities Act in Chen Shao-Ji’s case will be debated as well as the obligations of Australia to commit to its signed pact in anti-inhumane tortures.

It is known that the Australian Foreign Affairs Minister was sued once for issuing certificates to bar Falun Gong practitioners from displaying banners and placards in front of the Chinese Embassy. The lawsuit ended when Downer promised to cease the issuance of such certificates to ban Falun Gong and his adherents from peaceful appeals and offered a payment of $20,000.00 as indemnity towards the court fees as pre-requisites.

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

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.