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Report from Swedish Newspaper: “Human Rights Lawyers Will Bring China’s Former President to Justice”
2003-06-04
'If China’s former president, Jiang Zemin, goes abroad, he may face lawsuits against him, due to his infringements of human rights. Grant and some human rights lawyers in various countries have established an international network to carry out legal proceedings to bring Jiang to trial.' -
South China Morning Post: Bar on Falun Gong 'violated Basic Law'
2003-06-04
'The decision to block overseas Falun Gong practitioners from entering Hong Kong to attend a conference earlier this year was unconstitutional because it hampered the ability of local members to share their spiritual practices, a court heard yesterday.' -
FDI: American Beaten and Force-Fed in Chinese Prison
2003-06-04
According to sources in the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, an American being held in a Chinese prison, now on his seventh day of hunger strike, was beaten and force-fed while in custody. -
Taipei Times Commentary Cites Lack of Respect for Human Life in SARS Coverup
2003-06-03"The main reason why this epidemic has created such a serious disaster is China's confused bureaucracy, fighting to gain credit for some things while shifting the blame for others and presenting a falsely positive picture of the situation. The deeper reason, however, is that China has never understood that human life is invaluable." -
FDI: Jiang Retaliates Against Lawsuit
2003-06-03'According to sources in China, shortly after the class-action lawsuit was filed and served on Jiang Zemin during his visit to the U.S. last October, Jiang ordered the Chinese Security Bureau to establish a nationwide "Special Task Force Working on the Jiang Zemin Lawsuit Filed by the Falun Gong Practitioners Living Abroad...' -
FDI: American on Hunger Strike in Chinese Prison
2003-06-02A U.S. consulate official told Ms. Foo, Charles Li's fiancée, that the Chinese government is "completely responsible" for Dr. Li's well-being. "The U.S. government and the American people are watching this case closely and seriously," the consulate official told Ms. Foo. -
Radio France Internationale: 2003 Amnesty International Human Rights Report Claims that Human Rights in China have Become Worse
2003-06-01'Tens of thousands of people in China continue to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association or belief. Based on the Amnesty International Report, torture and ill-treatment remained widespread and appear to have increased as a result of the “strike-hard” campaign.' -
Austrian News Report: “Sometimes Dai Really Wishes She Could Forget the Past”
2003-05-31'From the day she lost her husband to the day her elder brother’s wife was detained; from her anxious wait for information to the time she read on the Internet about her husband not having survived the torture in a Chinese prison, Ms. Dai has often talked about what happened.' -
Media Report from Belgium: “Falun Gong Practitioners Demonstrate Exercises in Antwerp”
2003-05-31"When I was detained in Beijing, we received letters of support from the Belgian Premier, and from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, we had constructive talks with the Belgian representative who attended the Human Rights Meeting in Geneva. City Mayors have also approved our applications to demonstrate the exercises in their city." -
FDI: American Held in Chinese Prison for “Preparing” to Unmask China’s Four-Year Lie
2003-05-30'In April, when Dr. Jiang Yanyong blew the whistle on the SARS cover-up in China, the international community hailed him as a hero – one who put the lives and well-being of the people before concerns for his own personal safety. Approximately a month before, however, Chinese authorities had imprisoned a U.S. Citizen, Dr. Charles Li, charging him with “preparing” to do some very similar whistle-blowing of his own...' -
EFGIC: Seven Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death for Exposing Persecution in China
2003-05-29'The circumstances of their deaths were recently uncovered and reported to the European Falun Gong Information Centre despite the Chinese government’s control of information about Falun Gong-related cases. This same control of media and information was exactly what these seven men and woman risked their lives to break through in order to raise awareness about the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.' -
South China Morning Post (SCMP): Law and Disorder
2003-05-28'Cases of police brutality and corruption occur so frequently on the mainland that many rights activists are convinced such behaviour is favoured by government and party authorities. In any given week, startling cases abound...There is widespread acceptance that sectors of the police force are violent and venal, and form alliances with elements of the Communist Party, the judiciary and criminal gangs.' -
Press Release from International Association for Human Rights: Thailand holds Swedish Falun Gong Practitioner Prisoner
2003-05-27“We are quite worried that so far, Mrs. Svensson is being held without having been formally charged. No charge has been brought against this Swedish citizen. She did, however, receive a covert signal that an unobtrusive leave from Thailand could be arranged. Mrs. Svensson has visited Thailand regularly for the past 3 years and had spent much time there, but never in those 3 years, during her previous Thai visits nor during her visit in April of this year has she ever been in conflict with the law. Now, she wants public acknowledgement of her innocence.” -
FDI: Help Can Go a Long Way…Even as Far as Beijing
2003-05-27
“I would to take this opportunity to appeal to all the kind hearted Pittsburgh people to help me further, to get her here to reunite us,” says Mr. Xu. “It is powerful if everyone speaks up for justice.” -
Press Statement from the Swedish Falun Gong Information Centre
2003-05-26"After three and a half weeks, Pirjo Svensson it still being unlawfully detained, without any official explanation. This is even the case after the Swedish Ambassador in Bangkok, Jan Norlander, has repeatedly contacted the Thai government, and has also filed an official Swedish protest to the Thai government, with the request that Pirjo should be released immediately. In spite of this, the Thai government has still not given any explanation for Pirjo’s detention or the cancellation of her Visa."
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