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The Epoch Times: Detained Thailand Falun Gong Refugees Find Freedom in Norway

2006-02-02

Four Falun Gong refugees incarcerated by Thai authorities for the past month for protesting the persecution of their peers in China took an early morning flight to Norway on Tuesday, January 24. Wang Yajun, Liu Ying, Li Jianhui, and Miao Miao, accompanied by four family members including two children, flew to freedom and permanent asylum in the Scandinavian country.

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EFGIC: London Falun Gong Practitioner Assaulted by Chinese Embassy Partygoer

2006-01-27

LONDON (EFGIC) A female Chinese Falun Gong practitioner was punched in the head by a Chinese man while she sat in meditation at the 24 hour ongoing Falun Gong protest opposite the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place W1 around 9 pm of 24th January. Speaking to reporters, Ms Gao Yudong said: “the bruise on the side of my head caused by the blow felt very hot. By the next morning I started to feel pain, and I could feel a swelling on my head. During the day at work, my head felt painful and numb. I had difficulties concentrating.”

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The Epoch Times: Council of Europe Parliament Condemns Human Rights Violations by Communist Regimes

2006-01-27

LONDON—The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) condemned on Wednesday the human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes and expressed sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes. The Assembly passed a resolution, which censured violations such as executions, deaths in concentration camps, torture, slave labour, and starvation committed by communist regimes..."Totalitarian communist regimes are still active in some countries of the world and crimes continue to be committed," the resolution said. "The Assembly strongly condemns all those violations of human rights."

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Epoch Times Ireland: Spanish National Court to Investigate Genocide Crimes

2006-01-18

Last week Spain’s National Court announced to the media that Spain will begin the investigation of the crime of genocide against the Tibetan people by the Chinese Communist Party from the 1980s to 1990s. Reuters released the news saying that Comite de Apoyo Del Tibet (CAT) made an appeal to the secondary court against the crime of genocide committed by seven high-ranking officials of the CCP, including its former president Jiang Zemin.

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EFGIC: Chinese Communist Show to Celebrate Torture on U.S. Stage?

2006-01-14

"This is a sort of sick victory song for the CCP. Captive Falun Gong practitioners are made to sing it under threat of violence. To not 'sing along' is to invite beatings with two-by-fours, shocks from electric batons, or force-feeding using faeces and sludge. Once a victim is completely broken, prison authorities 'celebrate' with a round of this 'Same Song.' For thousands it is a song of pain and despair, and it has no place in our communities," says FDI spokesperson Mr. Erping Zhang.

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Finnish Newspaper 'Kaleva': Chinese Embassy Interferes with Falun Gong Photo Exhibition

2006-01-08

Finnish newspaper ‘Kaleva’ wrote on September 17th that the Chinese Embassy had interfered with a photo exhibition arranged by Falun Gong practitioners in the city of Rovaniemi. According to the newspaper, the Chinese Embassy had contacted the library where the exhibition “Peaceful Journey of Falun Gong” was held. The photo exhibition introduces Falun Gong and its history. It also exposes the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party against the practitioners of Falun Gong in China.

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Radio Free Asia: A Falun Gong Practitioner Condemns the Cruel Persecution by the CCP Using his Personal Experience

2006-01-07

Heping Li from Zejiang Province of China recalled how he was locked up in a forced labour camp because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. He saw with his own eyes and experienced the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP authorities. Heping Li said, “I was released in 2003 and put under detention for two years. As I practice Falun Gong, I used to write letters to the government (the CCP regime) and told friends of mine the truth about Falun Gong and the lies told on TV. For that reason, I was taken to a forced labour camp.

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Iceland Review: Refusal of Falun Gong [practitioners] deemed unlawful

2006-01-05

Representatives of the Falun Gong movement welcomed the decision, and requested that the government pay compensation to those banned from entering Iceland, as well as handing over the list of undesirable people so it could be destroyed. They said that the government had attempted to stifle the voice of justice and bow to the wishes of a foreign dictator. They had gone against the wishes of the Icelandic people and had set a dangerous precedent to other democratic countries in their actions against Falun Gong.

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German Taz Newspaper: Letter to the editor

2005-12-30

"Many people from this area think that China is far away. Yet, they seek economic and political contacts with China. But, most of the time they have no idea what they are getting into. No one dares to bring up the subject of human rights during contacts with high-level political policy makers ... People practise Falun Gong throughout the world. No other country has banned Falun Gong, just the opposite, everywhere where Falun Gong comes to the public it is recognised favourably and receives support."

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Report on German Website: “Fields of Shame” - Become conscious of the horror

2005-12-29

Fields of Shame" is an exhibition touring across Europe. The founder of this project, the Pole Wojciech Modelski said “Above all we hope that many people will learn about the existing reality in our world where murder, rape and torture on a daily basis is the norm.” ... The organiser was the International Organisation for Human Rights.

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Germany's Chamer Newspaper: Silent protest against torture and the persecution

2005-12-28

“Truthfulness – Compassion – Tolerance:” These three words were written on the t-shirt worn by Falkensteiner’s Utz-Reiner Römer during his three-week travels through China. This may sound perfectly harmless to a European, while it gives a political message in China. In China, the words Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance are considered the pillars of the Falun Gong movement.

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Falun Gong Practitioner's Painting "Homeless" Draws Attention from German Newspaper

2005-12-23

The theme of the most recent edition of the “Donau Strudl”, a street magazine from Regensburg, was “Homelessness”. The chief editor adopted Falun Gong practitioner’s painting “Homeless” from the International Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Fine Art Exhibition and expressed sympathy and concern towards the innocent Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives who have been made homeless by the persecution.

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EFGIC: Thai Police Taking Orders from Chinese Embassy?

2005-12-16

LONDON (EFGIC) — Thai police manhandled Falun Gong protesters outside the Bangkok Chinese Embassy on December 10, International Human Rights Day. After being seen going in and out of the Chinese Embassy, dozens of Thai policemen crossed the street and roughly searched Falun Gong practitioners quietly protesting the six-year persecution of their practice in China. The police dragged some of them and took away their banners. One officer stated that he did not want to break up their protest but was told to do so by the Chinese Embassy.

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Italian Monthly Magazine: Millennium China: "The path of Falun Gong cultivation"

2005-12-15

An Italian monthly magazine called “Viaggiand” took “Millennium China” as a topic and published a series of articles about China's five-thousand-year old culture in the November 2005 issue. In a special column entitled “The Spirit and the Rule”, Falun Gong is introduced under the title “Falun Gong, a path of cultivation” The article explains that Falun Gong is a cultivation practice to help people obtain intrinsic improvements.

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Report in Finnish Newspaper: Peaceful Mind with Falun Gong

2005-12-13

Instead of morning coffee the Pekkarinen family in Oulu begin their day with meditation. Without it, the Falun Gong practitioners, Anja and Veijo Pekkarinen don’t feel properly awakened. "The exercise makes you wake up, it cleans the mind and make you alert", says Anja. The Pekkarinen family learned it four years ago."Since then I don't suffer from insomnia...The practise does lot of good things."

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