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• VOA: A Canadian Court Orders the Garnishment of a Chinese Diplomat's Assets

  2004-08-03
  The report stated that in the case involving the Chinese Deputy Consul General in Toronto, Pan Xinchun, the Ontario Supreme Court last week issued a garnishee order against Pan Xinchun's personal assets in the amount of $11,000, to pay for damages and legal fees in a defamation case brought against him by Toronto resident Joel Chipkar.
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• Hungary: Hungarian News Agency Reports on Appeal at the Chinese Embassy to Protest Against the Jiang Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-08-02
  On the 20th of July 2004, the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) reported on an appeal held by Falun Gong practitioners outside the Chinese Embassy in Budapest. According to MTI Budapest daily summary, a group of Hungarian Falun Dafa practitioners held an appeal outside the Chinese Embassy today, protesting against the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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• EFGIC: State Councillor and Former Chinese Education Minister Sued for Torture and Killing of Teachers and Students

  2004-08-01
  'JOHANNESBURG (FDI) – A State Councillor and former Minister of Education who utilized the Chinese education system to indoctrinate teachers and students against Falun Gong – often inciting violence – has been sued for torture and extra judicial killing in a Tanzanian court. The civil suit was filed on July 19th as the former Minister of Education, Ms. Chen Zhili, was visiting several African nations.'
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• Russia: Russian State-Run TV Station Reports on the Jiang Regime’s Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-08-01
  A Russian state-run TV station recently reported the ongoing brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China. It revealed that since July 1999, while Falun Gong has been subject to slanderous propaganda and persecution in China, the practice has spread rapidly abroad to over sixty countries and the number of practitioners has reached 100 million.
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• EFGIC: Canadian Court Directs Garnishment of Chinese Vice Consul General’s Bank Account

  2004-07-30
  LONDON [EFGIC]– The Ontario Superior Court directed the Bank of China to seize applicable assets from the Vice Consul General of China, Pan Xinchun’s bank account for refusing to follow a court order to pay damages when he was found liable for defamation last February in an unprecedented case.
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• Radio France Internationale: Three Thousand Falun Gong Practitioners Make a 'Great Wall of Courage'

  2004-07-30
  A report from Radio France Internationale's Chinese language broadcasting programme to the Asia Pacific area on the evening of Friday 23rd July 2004: According to news from Agence France Presse, several hundred Falun Gong practitioners held a demonstration yesterday in Washington DC to expose the crimes of the Beijing authorities in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Organisers of this demonstration hoped that the 3000 participants would build a “Great Wall of Courage”.
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• Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong Practitioners and Human Rights Organisations Hold Anti-Persecution Activities in Many European Cities

  2004-07-29
  Falun Gong practitioners and human rights organisations in Germany and other major cities in Europe have held activities to commemorate the five year persecution of Falun Gong, urging people all over the world to oppose the torture and suppression by the Chinese government and supporting Chinese people’s freedom to pursue a better life. The following report is the summary of a broadcast by German special reporter Tian Yi at Radio Free Asia.
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• International Society for Human Rights Press Release: People’s Republic of China (PRC) Five Years Since the Crackdown and Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-07-27
  Mrs. Xu Youling is presently held at Beijing’s Daxing Forced Labour Camp. Her son, a student in Germany, announced, “Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners suffer from torture in the PRC and many have died from the most inhuman and cruelest of tortures. Even under the dictatorship, which scorns human rights, my mother had the courage to tell the truth of the Falun Gong persecution to the public. She deserves respect and under no circumstances torture. I will do everything in my power to save my mother’s life.”
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• Radio France Internationale: French Practitioners hold an Anti-Torture Exhibition to Expose the Jiang Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-07-24
  Yesterday, about 4,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Taipei to do exercises and hold a candlelight vigil to commemorate the practitioners who have been killed during the persecution. Also, they launched the 'Rescue Falun Gong practitioners Campaign' in Taiwan in order to express their support towards mainland practitioners. At the same time, French practitioners staged a torture exhibition show in China Town Paris to show the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China to the public.
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• July 20th Press Statement from the Belgian Falun Gong Association

  2004-07-23
  "The whole of China is turned into a tool to implement Jiang's personal vicious will and exterminate belief in 'truth-compassion-tolerance', which are the main principles of Falun Gong. Inhumane brainwashing, torture, various ill-treatments, murder, hate propaganda, etc.; all evil deeds throughout history, are used against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, their families and friends. Millions of innocent people are victims."
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• EFGIC: Turning of the Tide?

  2004-07-22
  'LONDON [EFGIC]– Five years ago today, men and women throughout China were taken from their homes in the middle of the night to face an indoctrination process consisting of scare tactics, brainwashing, and other forms of coercion meant to break their beliefs...Yet, after five years of violent suppression, there is something on the horizon rarely seen amidst such terror: Hope. This hope is ushered in and reaffirmed by three developments.'
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• EFGIC: Photos Reveal Electric Shock Torture Commonly Used on Falun Gong in China

  2004-07-22
  LONDON [EFGIC]– Photos of 36-year-old Ms. Gao Rongrong, whose face was severely disfigured from seven hours of electric shock torture, were obtained from sources inside China last week. The photos offer a glimpse of the systematic beatings and torture of Falun Gong practitioners in police custody and inside labour camps throughout China.
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• Press Release: Dun Laoghaire Student Liu Feng Again Applies for an Irish Visa. Chinese Ambassador says he is Free to Return to Ireland.

  2004-07-21
  Last week it was learned from the Irish Embassy in China that Liu Feng and his wife Qiaona Zhang are again in the process of returning to Ireland to continue their studies. Liu Feng is a Dun Laoghaire student who was detained when he returned to China for his Christmas break in 1999 and was not permitted to return to Ireland because he practiced Falun Dafa.
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• EFGIC: Confirmed Death Count of Falun Gong Practitioners in China Exceeds 1,000

  2004-07-18
  LONDON (EFGIC) – The verified deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China, which began with 18-year-old Ms. Chen Ying on August 16 1999, surpassed the 1000 mark this past week. Based on statistics from Chinese Government sources, however, the actual death toll is at least 5,000, or even much higher.
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• EFGIC: The Motive Clear, The Means Chilling

  2004-07-17
  LONDON (EFGIC) - Has it really come to this? Could it be that the Jiang protégé sitting aside the Chinese Communist throne as Vice President, Zeng Qinghong, hired gunmen in South Africa to do his bidding? Assassins, that is, to murder peaceful, unarmed demonstrators who might upstage his visit?
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