A rally will take place in Dublin tomorrow to protest at the Chinese government's treatment of members of the Falun Gong movement, which Beijing says is an "evil cult".
The ban on the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China is now entering its second decade.
The movement says hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily arrested and illegally imprisoned.
"Detention facilities and prisons all over China have been used to mainly detain Falun Gong practitioners. In some women labour camps, Falun Gong practitioners often constitutes over 90 per cent of the detainees," the Irish Falun Dafa Association said in a statement.
It said Falun Gong's http://www.minghui.org web site had recorded "over 3,283 known cases of death caused by torture and abuses from the authority".
A statement from the Irish Falun Dafa Association said tomorrow's rally to mark "10 years of persecution of Falun Gong in China" would take place at 12pm at the top of Grafton Street.
It said a statement signed by Falun Dafa associations in 38 countries was handed in to Taoiseach Brian Cowen's office today.
"This year is also the 20th anniversary of the collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. Chinese Communist regime has become the last major communist government left on this globe. When the killings and massacres is happening in Xinjiang and Tibet, Falun Gong practitioners’ stories tell that the Communist regime is doing the same brutality to its own Han tribe people."
On Monday, the Irish Falun Dafa Association will hold a press conference outside the Chinese embassy in Dublin.