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Falun Gong Man Falls From Building And Dies During Police Raid
2001-10-09 -
AFP: Falun Gong Follower Dies After Mystery Fall During Raid
2001-10-09 -
EVENING STAR [UK]: Call for China to free unlawfully jailed meditators
2001-10-09 -
French Television Reports on Falun Gong
2001-10-08 -
BBC TV Broadcasts programme on Falun Gong
2001-10-08BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] Broadcast Special Long Feature Programme on Falun Gong at Peak Viewing Time on the eve of China's National Day -
German media reports on "Serenity, harmony and success through Falun Gong"
2001-10-06 -
GLASGOW [HERALD]: Chinese baby persecuted from birth
2001-10-06 -
Italian radio reports Chinese embassys Refusal to accept letter from Falun Gong
2001-10-05 -
Two More Falun Gong Practitioners Killed in Custody, Shandong Death Toll Climbs to 51
2001-10-04More Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in Shandong Province than any other province in China. Ian Johnson of The Wall Street Journal has described Shandong as a province of "killing fields" in the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Italian radio station ADN Kronos reports on Falun Gong
2001-10-02 -
Police Throw Falun Gong Woman to Her Death From Fourth-Story Window to Cover Up Evidence of Torture
2001-10-01To cover up their crime, officers Huang and Sun threw her, still alive, out of the 4th floor window and Yu Xiuling died from the impact. The body of Ms. Yu was hastily sent for cremation at midnight of the same evening.Officers Huang and Sun threatened Feng [Ms Yu's husband], saying, "If you want to file a lawsuit, feel free to do that in any place. We have orders from the top that no measure is too excessive when dealing with Falun Gong." The Chaoyang police then reported Ms. Yu's death as a "suicide." -
Amidst National Day Preparations, Reports Surface of Two More Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death
2001-09-28Yuan Zhongyu, of Anshan City, Liaoning Province, died in the basement of the Anshan Public Security Bureau from injuries sustained during police torture, on or around August 16. In a separate case, Gu Yalou, 31, died in the City Public Security Bureau of Beihan Town, Renqiu City, in Hebei Province. -
Another Falun Gong Practitioner Dead in Custody, Death Toll Soars in Hebei Province
2001-09-28It has been learned that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Aizhong, age 33, of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, died on September 20, 2001, following just seven days in custody at the Tangshan Labour Camp. It is believed that Chen was subjected to torture while at the camp, and most likely died of violent force-feeding. This past June two other Falun Gong practitioners were killed in the Tangshan Labour Camp, both by torture. And in the past year at least four other practitioners from Hebei (An Xiukun, Yang Guibao, Wang Ailing, and Liu Dongxue) have died in custody while on hunger strikes from force-feeding and torture by police. -
VOLKSBLATT: (German newspaper) International Association for Human Rights Says China is Number One in Human Rights Abuses, Torture, and Executions
2001-09-26During a press conference in Wuerzburg, the Chinese woman artist, Cui-Ying Zhang, described the gruesome conditions prevalent in Chinese detention centres. Her personal experience report sounds like a horror story. For eight months she was incarcerated, tortured and beaten. To increase her abuse, she was the only woman assigned to a men's section of the prison. For seven months she was prohibited from walking about. She also had been shackled with heavy iron chains so severely that in some areas her skin began to rot. -
Falun Gong Woman Tortured to Death by Beijing Police
2001-09-24Ms. Li Xifang's death brings the number of documented deaths to 282, with government sources inside China disclosing that the actual number exceeds 1,000.