As we wrote in our first Geneva installment, our main purpose in going there was to participate in the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, as members of the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group. As we were just writing the promised "Geneva Part II: Inside at the UN", something urgent came up which we wanted to share instead.

At this very moment, there is a dire human rights situation | [link 2] playing out in the skies over Canada. Our Immigration authorities have rejected the refugee claim of a Falun Dafa practitioner in Montreal and are deporting her back to China. The woman is almost certainly on a Communist Party blacklist since she's been publicly involved in Dafa activities since late 2003 -- group practices, parades, vigils, etc. -- and we now know that CCP agents are everywhere in Canada. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners in China have been arrested, beaten and tortured by the CCP for much lesser "crimes" than these. The Canadian government judged that she wouldn't be in danger upon returning to China. Germany made that same fateful call a few months ago and the practitioner they deported was arrested upon arrival and is now spending 3 years in a forced-labour camp -- one that is known to the Human Rights Working Group for brutally torturing Falun Dafa practitioners. Germany is now desperately trying to reverse its horrible mistake.

We are posting this right now and will finish the rest of "Geneva Part II: continued" soon. If any Canadians are reading this and want to help we urge you to immediately call or fax the special advisor looking after this case through the office of Anne McLellan, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

Telephone: (613) 991-2924
Fax: (613) 943-0044

If you call, they will patch you through to a voice mail that is collecting these appeals and passing them along. Simply say that you call on the government of Canada to do the morally correct thing and stop the deportation of Hu Xiaoping (or Ms. Hu if you can't pronounce it). Apparently it's been on CBC radio a lot over the last 24 hours, and there's a story on CBC's website, as well as MacLeans, CP, Dow Jones...

Ms. Hu's plane has already left Montreal and is scheduled to land in Vancouver at 3:24 EST so that's how much time is left...

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