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AP: Foreign Falun Gong Followers Protest
2001-12-25
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Judgment Against High-Ranking Chinese Official Handed Down by U.S. Court
2001-12-25" Terri Marsh, a Falun Gong practitioner, and co-counsel for the plaintiff, stated "The defendant's attempts to circumvent the legal complaint not only by a campaign of propaganda in the Chinese state-controlled media, but by arresting and torturing the plaintiff, is a cowardly and brutally inhuman response to these serious charges. Today, the Chinese Government's persecution of Falun Dafa in violation of international law has been acknowledged in the United States District Court. The defendant cannot deny this judgement." -
The People’s Review (London Newspaper) – “Nothing new then” by Tom Parker
2001-12-23Report on Falun Gong and the treatment of Westerners after their peaceful appeal in Tiananmen Square -
"Golden Age of Human Rights" in China Leaves Four More Tortured to Death by Chinese Authorities
2001-12-22 Death Count Exceeds 1,600; Over 100,000 Detained; Over 20,000 Sent to Labour Camps without Trial Fearful of Jiang's Persecution Campaign, Chinese Officials Tell Reporters, "Please Don't Ask" About Falun Gong -
Excerpt from FGM TV news…
2001-12-22"For the first few years after Falun Gong was introduced to the public, the government of China used its vast propaganda machine to encourage everyone to practice Falun Gong. Amongst the many benefits, practitioners were saving the country billions of dollars in health care. When a government survey concluded in 1998 that the number of practitioners exceeded membership in the Communist Party, President Jiang Zemin instituted the current crackdown." -
CHINA'S STATE MEDIA USES MURDER CASE TO INCITE HATRED AGAINST FALUN GONG
2001-12-20FDI issued a release early Sunday, December 16th (see website), to alert the media and the public of the upcoming propaganda blitz. This latest media blitz comes just days after the conclusion of a national conference on religion in China, in which, according to the South China Morning Post, President Jiang "tacitly acknowledged international criticism on the issue [of Falun Gong], telling the meeting that China should 'strengthen propaganda'" surrounding Falun Gong. -
The Death of Practitioner Zhang Min From Torture
2001-12-19Han tried to force Zhang Min to tell him the source of the Falun Gong materials she had been distributing. Zhang refused to tell him. Han Yunjie hung Zhang Min on a heating pipe after handcuffing both of her hands. Then he savagely punched her chest, eyes and temples. He grabbed her hair and bashed her head against the wall. Both her hands were swollen and burned from the heat pipes. She vomited blood and passed out after the beatings, but Han Yunjie did not think it was enough. He poured water on Zhang Min to make her regain consciousness and then beat her again until she lost control of her bladder. The torture continued over some sixty hours. -
VOA News: Chinese Police Beat Falun Gong Member to Death
2001-12-19The rights group says police beat her repeatedly in an attempt to find out who had printed the materials and where she had obtained them. The group says authorities cremated the woman's body two days after her death. -
DPA: Beaten Falun Gong Woman Dies in Northeast China, Rights Group Says
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Falun Gong Permitted to Meditate During 2002 Olympics
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Dagens Nyheter (Swedish newspaper): Swedes on their way home from China
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“German TV Station Channel One” Reports on Falun Gong
2001-12-14When the reporter interviewed Mr. Ma, the Chinese Embassy's spokesman, about the Chinese Government's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, the spokesman explained that the forced labour education is only for education and alteration. The reporter then asked: "Then do you agree with the cruel torture?" The spokesman absolutely denied that torture had been applied to Falun Gong practitioners. What a pity that the spokesman of such a great country could openly tell such a bare-faced lie to the German public in the face of so much irrefutable evidence! -
Thueringian Country News [German newspaper] reports on Falun Gong
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Nuernberger Nachrichten [German newspaper] Reports on Falun Gong Activities in Nuremburg
2001-12-12Professor Mr. Rudolf Wagner concurs with [Mr.Zhang’s] views. He is chairman of the Sinology Institute at the University of Heidelberg. This scientist surmises further that, “The [Chinese] ruling party fears for their organization’s monopoly and lives by the dictum that people outside the Communist party might develop their own spiritual value system.” He sees the manifold critique by the PRC’s authorities as “preposterous.”Again and again one hears reports of arrests, torture and even killings of men and women who have done nothing [wrong] except practise the exercises together. -
Taipei Times: Cheering of US attacks - the result of propagandacies
2001-12-12Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials and members of the public in China could be heard cheering the misfortunes of the US. One journalist at an official English-language newspaper called a friend, opening the conversation with the laudatory exclamation "Nice job!" The friend on the other side was left flabbergasted. Discussions on the Internet were even more outrageous -- "The blasts were skillful like no other, the imperialists all went running for cover!" "Using a plane wasn't strong enough; they should have used an A-bomb!" "Homage to bin Laden for exercising the will of the Heavens!"
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