PETITION: URGENT CALL TO HELP END THE 26 YEAR PERSECUTION OF FALUN GONG IN CHINA

To the Honourable President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:

This petition of certain citizens and residents of Australia draws to the attention of the Senate our grave concerns over the 26-year ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice rooted in the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out a systematic campaign of persecution against millions of Falun Gong practitioners, including wrongful imprisonment, torture, forced labour, and extrajudicial killings. Outside China, CCP has carried out transnational repression to persecute Falun Gong.

Numerous reports, including by various governments and international human rights organisations, have documented that Falun Gong practitioners are among the primary victims of state-sponsored forced organ harvesting in China. This practice involves the non-consensual removal of organs from prisoners of conscience to supply China’s lucrative transplant industry.

The independent China Tribunal concluded in 2019, that "Forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale and that Falun Gong practitioners have been one – and probably the main – source of organ supply."

In May 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed “The Falun Gong Protection Act” (H.R. 1540) and “Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act (H.R. 1503)” to combat the persecution and forced organ harvesting in China. The Human Rights Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament issued the report “Compassion, Not Commerce: An Inquiry into Human Organ Trafficking and Organ Transplant Tourism” in 2018 and made 12 recommendations to combat organ trafficking.

As a signatory to many international conventions on human rights, and as a nation that values freedom of belief and thought, Australia has a moral obligation to stand up and take actions to combat these atrocities.

We therefore ask the Senate to:

  1. Call for an immediate end to the decades-long persecution of Falun Gong and the unconditional release of all detained Falun Gong practitioners in China, especially the families of Australian citizens and residents;
  2. Condemn the CCP’s transnational repression of Falun Gong in Australia;
  3. Pass legislation and adopt other measures to combat forced organ harvesting in China;
  4. Urge the Australian government to sanction the perpetrators of human rights abuses of Falun Gong.

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