Radio Australia, Melbourne: Australian Democrats Leader Voices Support For Falun Gong Detainees In China

The leader of Australia's minor political party, the Democrats, has launched a campaign to rescue people being held in Chinese prisons and labour camps for practising Falun Gong. Falun Gong has been banned in China since 1999.

Senator Andrew Bartlett addressed hundreds of people who gathered outside federal parliament to support the movement [...]. He says the international community should do what it can to ensure fair treatment of practitioners being held in Chinese prisons.

[Bartlett] "We need to allow independent observers in to monitor the condition of prisoners in jails and finally to monitor the trials of those prisoners to ensure that those trials are legal and fair."