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Conservative MP Garnett Genuis and over a dozen other MPs have urged China to release a Canadian citizen arbitrarily detained for seven years for practising Falun Gong, as well as other detainees with family ties in Canada.
While presenting the petition on Nov. 19, Genuis highlighted the detention of Canadian citizen and Vancouver resident Qian Sun. Sun was arrested at her home in Beijing in February 2017, and in June 2020 she was sentenced to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong.
Sun Qian, a Falun Dafa practitioner who has been illegally detained in China since February 2017, in an undated photo. The Epoch Times/Handout
Genuis mentioned two other cases on Nov. 19: Mingguang Xie, the father of Regina resident Xingxing Xie, was abducted from his home by Chinese police in February of this year and is now detained at the Lichuan Detention Center in Hubei Province. Xie had previously spent three years in prison in 2002, during which he was reportedly tortured.
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MPs who participated in presenting the petition include Cathay Wagantall, Larry Brock, Damien Kurek, Scott Reid, Jeremy Patzer, Brad Vis, Tako Van Popta, Marc Dalton, Dane Lloyd, Dan Albas, Dave Epp, Tom Kmiec, and Greg McLean. Collectively, they expressed concerns about the CCP’s practice of live organ harvesting, torture, forced labour, and other inhumane measures to suppress Falun Gong practitioners.
Like Genuis, each MP highlighted specific cases of detained Falun Gong practitioners with family members in Canada while presenting the petition.
Conservative MPs Garnett Genuis, Tom Kmiec, Larry Brock, Jeremy Patzer, Brad Vis, Greg McLean, and Marc Dalton stand with Falun Gong practitioners, advocating for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the spiritual practice, in Ottawa on Oct. 30, 2024. The Epoch Times
“These and other cases of Canadian citizens or people with close ties to Canada who face persecution in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] because they are Falun Gong practitioners need to be highlighted,” Genuis said. “I join colleagues in highlighting these specific cases, as well as calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in general.
“Petitioners want to see the House take strong, clear action opposing the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and to explicitly continue to call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.”
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is rooted in Buddhist traditions and involves meditative exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
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