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Report in the German Mannheim Morning News newspaper
2002-02-17Compassionate helpers are turned into victims Three Heidelberg Falun Gong members demonstrate in China for the release of a friend and are themselves incarcerated. The seventeen-year-old Heidelberg native, together with her 22-year-old sister Caroline and her father, Mr. Hubert Koerper and four other Falun Gong members from Germany had flown to the Chinese capital to demonstrate for religious freedom at Tiananmen Square. -
Ananova: Falun Gong schoolboy 'roughed up' in Tiananmen square protest
2002-02-17 -
Falun Gong Adherent from Breda Sent Out of China
2002-02-17Egon Knapen from Breda experienced a few exciting days in China. Knapen, adherent of the Falun Gong movement which is forbidden in China, wanted to hold a demonstration on Thursday in Beijing together with other western adherents. On his way to Tiananmen Square he was arrested. -
18-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY DEPORTED FROM CHINA
2002-02-17 -
AP: Falun Gong Members Return to U.S.
2002-02-17 -
South China Morning Post: Falun Gong mass arrest worries Bush
2002-02-17 -
DPA: German Falung Gong members deported from China arrive in Frankfurt
2002-02-17 -
CP: Falun Gong followers expelled from China recount police brutality
2002-02-17"They smashed my glasses and I was brought down forcibly and they walked all over me," Sturdza said after arriving back in Canada on Friday. "I think I have some broken ribs. I have trouble breathing." -
AFP: British Falungong Member 'brutally' Arrested in China
2002-02-15 -
IGFM: Germans arrested again – China must end the persecution of Falun Gong;
2002-02-15 -
FDI: Deported North American Falun Gong Practitioners call for Swift Return of 50+ Detained in Beijing Today
2002-02-15The two North Americans recounted the abuses they had faced by authorities earlier this week. "I was choked and punched repeatedly. One police officer grabbed my hair and through me into a chair while another officer twisted my arm backwards," said Loftus. "I thought he was going to break his arm," Browde said who witnessed the assault. -
AFP: Bush "concerned" over Falungong Arrests
2002-02-15 -
AP: China expels Germans, Britons after Falun Gong protest
2002-02-15Chinese police said more than 40 foreigners were detained during Thursday's protest in central Beijing, making it the square's biggest foreign protest yet against a 2½-year-old Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong. -
The Press and Journal, Aberdeen: Scot Interrogated by Chinese Police Over Planned Human Rights Protest
2002-02-15 -
AFP: China deports foreign Falungong protestors
2002-02-15