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• AFP: US ambassador to China slams Beijing over human rights (Excerpt)

  2002-11-26
  ""If China wants to be accepted as both a respected and responsible member of the international community, then China must abide by certain internationally-accepted forms of behavior," Randt told members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing."
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• The Spectator: Jiang's regime is a fascist regime

  2002-11-24
  "Jiang and the CCP have carried on regardless, ruthlessly quashing worker protests, smashing a nascent democratic movement, and dealing mercilessly with religious believers: Roman Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists and the Falun Gong movement."
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• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong): IT experts voice fears over Article 23

  2002-11-24
  Information technology professionals have voiced fears that the government's proposal to introduce an anti-subversion law would inhibit the free flow of data in the cyber world. "The Article 23 legislation will have a direct impact on Hong Kong's status as Asia's information and telecommunications hub," said Democrat Sin Chung-kai.
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• AP: Falun Gong HK Follower Goes On Trial For Sending VCDs

  2002-11-23
  The trial lasted about 90 minutes..."They've already decided he's guilty," said Kan Hung-cheung, a Hong Kong-based spokesman for Falun Gong.
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• AFP: Media Groups Warn Hong Kong Anti-Subversion Law Would Muzzle Free Speech

  2002-11-23
  The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) on Wednesday commented that the proposed Article 23 "would have a chilling effect on all individuals, groups and enterprises engaged in the business of information exchange."
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• AP: HK Man Arrested On Falun Gong Charges Faces China Trial Friday

  2002-11-22
  "They've already decided he's guilty. They're deferring to the wishes of senior Chinese leaders"
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• Radio Free Asia Interviews French Falun Gong practitioners

  2002-11-22
  “After more than three years’ suppression, the French government and the general public have become more aware that Falun Gong is for people to cultivate their minds towards compassion. They have also rendered more and more support to Falun Gong, after they realise the cruelty of China’s persecution."
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• BBC Monitoring: Falun Gong voices fears on Hong Kong anti-subversion laws

  2002-11-22
  He was concerned that the passing of an anti-subversion laws would allow the SAR government to use national security as an excuse to get rid of the Falun Gong and other groups that aren't to their liking.
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• BBC Monitoring: Hong Kong Falun Gong member due in Chinese court 22 November

  2002-11-22
  Sophie Xiao [a Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioner], told Betsy-May Veloo that a lawyer has said the trial is expected to last a day and could end in a five-year prison sentence.
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• Reuters: Britain urges Hong Kong to protect rights and freedom

  2002-11-20
  "Britain has urged the government of Hong Kong to protect basic rights and freedoms as the former British colony prepares to pass an anti-subversion law demanded by the Chinese government...The British Consulate-General said in a statement any legislation that undermined the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms would be "seriously damaging" to the territory, which Britain handed back to China in 1997."
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• EFIC: Swedish Businesswoman Denied Entry into Hong Kong

  2002-11-20
  She was previously denied entry into Hong Kong in June 2001 when Jiang Zemin visited the territory. This time she was denied entry again for no reason other than because she is a Falun Gong practitioner and is therefore blacklisted from the country.
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• South China Morning Post: New Zealand Foreign Minister questions 4 HK ministers about Article 23 and asks whether it will be used against Falun Gong

  2002-11-20
  "US President George W. Bush spoke of the importance of preserving the rights of Hong Kong citizens last month, after meeting President Jiang Zemin, a comment analysts believe was a reference to concerns about Article 23."
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• AFP: HK democrat takes anti-subversion fight to Brussels

  2002-11-18
  "Human-rights and pro-democracy groups fear that China could use the new law to suppress freedoms including those of media, speech and religion, as well as to ban groups it considers a threat."
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• South China Morning Post: Broad-based academic opposition endorses signature campaign against grey areas of provisions in Article 23 New security law

  2002-11-18
  Proposed national security laws are a threat to independent teaching and research, according to more than 100 academics who this week endorsed a signature campaign calling for a thorough government consultation through a white bill.
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• RTE (Ireland): Recent popularity of the Chinese banned practise of Falun Gong among Irish citizens (Video)

  2002-11-17
  RTE (Radio Telefis Eireann) is one of the major television stations in Ireland. Recently one of it's programs, Nationwide, broadcast a report on the spread Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) in Ireland.
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