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AP: Chinese Students on Trial
2002-02-19
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New York Times: In Rural China, Mental Hospitals Await Some Who Rock the Boat
2002-02-19Falun Gong says 1,000 of its members have been forcibly committed. -
German Falun Gong Practitioners Back from Beijing
2002-02-18“I have never seen or experienced anything like it. The police officers were insanely brutal,” said Mrs. Annett Munter from the German Falun Gong group. Chinese officers had slammed them onto the ground during the demonstration and then dragged her into a police vehicle. During the ensuing interrogation, when she refused to reveal the name of a friend, the officers hit her in the face until she bled. -
Report about Florian Akbar’s Arrest
2002-02-18“Some male police officers acted like genuine, beastly animals. They completely lacked self-control. I had the feeling, over and over again, that they really wanted to beat me up.” -
DN [Swedish newspaper]: Three Falungong Swedes home from China
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Press Association: SCHOOLBOY 'ROUGHED UP' IN TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTEST
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Hamburg Evening News [German newspaper]: Hamburg Citizen disappeared in China
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Report from German newspaper: Voice of Heilbronn
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Barometern Oskarshamns-tidningen (Swedish newspaper): Kalmar-citizen might be arrested in China
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DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur): China deports over fifty foreign Falun Gong followers
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PRESS FREEDOM - RSF calls on President Bush to intervene after arrest of seven foreign journalists in China
2002-02-17Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on US President George W. Bush to intervene with Chinese President Jiang Zemin during his forthcoming visit to China to try to end the harassment of foreign journalists covering demonstrations by the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong. Seven foreign reporters were arrested in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square on 14 February while covering the arrest of members of the movement protesting there. -
Swedish falungong practitioners still kept in China
2002-02-17Three Swedish falungong practitioners are still in China this Friday, the Falungong movement in Sweden announced. One of the three is detained by the police in Beijing. The Swedish Foreign Department (UD) did not succeed in getting any official notice about the Swedes.[…]”Our embassy in Beijing haven´t received any information at all. And now the Chinese authorities are closing for the weekend, so we might not get any answers until Monday,” said Kristina Östergren on UD’s press statement to TT. -
Western Falun Gong practitioners brutally treated in China
2002-02-17A German practitioner, Bernhard Aurnhammer 38, was subject to so much violence that when he arrived at the Frankfurt airport yesterday he still suffered pain in various parts of his body. He came out from the plane with a pair of torn trousers which were torn when he was knocked down by the police at Tiananmen Square. -
Friends of Falun Gong Europe: The failure of Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Falun Gong
2002-02-17They went with a pure and kind heart, hoping to awaken the deceived Chinese people, to tell the truth; hoping the Jiang Zemin regime could see the point that Falun Gong is not a China issue, but an international issue! This appeal will not stop until the killing stops! -
AFP (Agence France-Presse): China deports foreign Falun Gong protestors
2002-02-17BEIJING, Feb 15 (AFP) - China on Friday deported at least 24 followers of the banned Falun Gong group detained for protesting in Tiananmen Square the previous day, Falun Gong's New York headquarters said.
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