Maori Emirate: "I Support Falun Gong 150%" (Photos) |
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(Clearwisdom.net) On January 10, 2010, 77 year-old Amato Akarana, Hereditary Maori chief, and member of the Council of Chiefs of the United Tribes of Aotearoa, came to the peak of New Zealand's Mt. Eden to support a Falun Gong event. He was warmly welcomed by the tourists. |
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14/01/2010 , Voices of Support
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New Zealand Political Leaders Support Falun Gong and Condemn the Persecution (Photos) |
| (Clearwisdom.net) To commemorate Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured to death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and call on New Zealanders to pay attention to the CCP's crimes and human rights violations in China, Falun Gong practitioners in New Zealand will hold events on Elizabeth Square in downtown Auckland on the morning of July 18, 2009. In advance of the activity, New Zealand political leaders wrote letters to express their support and call for an end of the persecution. |
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10/07/2009 , Voices of Support
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New Zealand: Maori Chief Appeals to Supreme Court for Falun Gong (Photo) |
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(Clearwisdom.net) Santa Claus Parade organizer Michael Barnett, a top official with the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, denied the Falun Gong application to enter the Christmas parade. Sources report that this was done to help maintain positive business relations with China. On December 1, 2008, Maori Chief Mr. Amato Akarana submitted a petition to the New Zealand Supreme Court asking it to try the case from a human rights violation perspective. |
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03/12/2008 , Voices of Support
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Letter from a New Zealand Citizen: Standing Beside These Genuinely Decent Folk, I Am Content, Rubbing Shoulders with These Warm and Friendly Souls |
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(Clearwisdom.net) On August 4, 2008, an Epoch Times editor received the following letter from Mr. Richard McRobbie, a New Zealand citizen. Mr. McRobbie described his experience and feeling when he was standing alongside Falun Gong protestors on the footpath outside the Chinese Embassy in howling wind and freezing rain. |
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09/08/2008 , Voices of Support
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Letter to the Editor |
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By a non-practitioner in New Zealand Editor's note: The following letter is shared by a member of the public who has seen practitioners protesting outside the New Zealand Chinese Embassy. He was so moved by what we were doing that he wrote the attached letter. |
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01/08/2008 , Voices of Support
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