DFAT aids China over Australian alleging torture
43-year-old Zhang Cuiying is an Australian citizen who claims she was tortured for eight months in a Chinese labour camp for practicing Falun Gong. She’s taken her case against the former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, seeking justice for the suffering she endured. But her story recently took a twist, implicating the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, when last year, a journalism student from the University of Western Sydney received documents under the Freedom of Information Act. These documents indicated that, under pressure from the Chinese Embassy, DFAT had been providing legal advice to the Chinese Government in order to preserve the “bilateral relatoinship” between the two countries. Zhang Cuiying and her supporters spoke to The Wire outside the Supreme Court today.