RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA

Motion Text

That this House notes the Chinese government's systematic persecution of those peacefully expressing their beliefs, including detention without trial, torture and judicial execution; further notes, in particular, that July 2009 marks the tenth year of the use of these measures against Falun Gong practitioners; further notes the Vice-President of the European Parliament’s request to the UN Secretary General to initiate an inquiry into this issue; and calls on the Government to support unequivocally the Vice President’s call for an inquiry, and to make representations to the UN Secretary General to that effect.