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CNN.com: China cracks down on Internet
2002-09-01 -
Sweden: Friends of Falun Gong appeals for an end to persecution in the NGO Free Forum Summit
2002-09-01On 30th of August, the NGO Free Forum Summit was opened in Gothenburg. More than 20 non-governmental organisations, such as Friends of Falun Gong, Amnesty International, Red Cross, the International Womens Union, and EU Stafetten have been invited to attend the summit. -
Hindustan Times: The Inscrutable Chinese
2002-08-31I have read some books on [.] Falun Gong. It seems a pretty innocuous [practice] open to people of any faith who believe in truth, compassion and tolerance. Why should anyone in his senses want to stamp it out is beyond my comprehension. -
Wiesbaden Courier: Hong Kong Government Undermines Human Rights With the Verdict Against Falun Gong Practitioners
2002-08-31 -
German Radio Station's Report On Hong Kong Trial: Local Government Seems to be Bending More and More to Pressure from Beijing
2002-08-31 -
BBC Monitoring: Eight Chinese teenage illegal immigrants surrender to police in France
2002-08-31 -
Congratulations to the Founding of Falun Dafa Associations in Czech Republic and Venezuela
2002-08-31 -
Japan Times: Falun Gong seeks peace and freedom to practice (Photo)
2002-08-30"Most were bruised and beaten. One woman told me she had been without food or drink or allowed to go to the toilet for five days. Police called her a panda because of her two eyes were bruised black. There was consideration for practitioners from overseas, but still I was stripped naked and slapped around." -
Economist: Case closed
2002-08-30An unidentified woman has paid the fines of 16 [practitioners] of the Falun Gong spiritual [practice], who were brought up on public obstruction charges in the group's first criminal trial in Hong Kong, local human rights activists have labelled Hong Kong's crackdown a political move to appease Beijing. -
BBC Monitoring: Noted Chinese Dissident Bao Tong Slams Party For Exploiting Peasants
2002-08-30"Books that you are not allowed to read of course include Falun Gong books.[..] The contents of the books promote physical and spiritual training with true, kind, and forgiving feelings." -
Japan Times: Psychiatry confab ends with plea
2002-08-30The World Psychiatric Association, which organized the congress, also confirmed that it will send a team of experts to China in spring to investigate claims that the government is confining political dissidents, including Falun Gong [practitioners] in mental hospitals. -
AFP: China winning Internet war against dissidents for now
2002-08-30 -
EFIC: Beijing Compels Ukraine to Persecute Local Falun Gong
2002-08-29As the Falun Gong practitioners were taken into custody, witnesses say police cited pressure from Beijing as the cause, stating China is huge and powerful compared with a developing country like Ukraine and that Ukraine cant afford trouble with China relations. According to the detained practitioners, police also mentioned that Chinese officials had struck a deal with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop Falun Gong activities in Ukraine. -
Letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine from the European Falun Dafa Association
2002-08-29"It is appalling that Jiang Zemin can dictate the actions of an independent state like Ukraine and that Ukrainian authorities would be subject to decrees from as far away as Beijing. Through a series of recent events, we are witnessing a systematic expansion of Jiangs persecution of Falun Gong in Europe..If Ukraine wishes to aspire to the best European standards, then upholding the freedom of belief and association will be one of the basic building blocks." -
UK: Letter to the Ukraine Ambassador from the Falun Gong Association (UK)
2002-08-29"This detention, that reminds us of the practices of the red terror to which citizens of your own country were subjected not that long ago that are still in our memory, should never have occurred, and could not and would not have occurred in any democracy around the world. The facts of this case are clear: the Ukrainian police were acting under pressure from Jiang's regime."