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• Brock Press (Newspaper of Brock University, St. Catharines): ‘Falun Gong is Good’

  2002-10-21
  It is because of my love for China and Chinese people that I want people to know the truth. More than one billion Chinese people are deceived into hating an innocent group of their fellow countrymen. The self-immolation is staged. Falun Gong is good. It is a practice that improves people’s health and teaches them to be good people, following the universal principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. I want Chinese people to know the truth so that they will not be deceived into participating in or supporting this enormous injustice.
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• AP: Falun Gong [practitioner] Gets Death Penalty

  2002-10-20
  A [practitioner] of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in northeastern China has been sentenced to death...a state-controlled newspaper reported Friday.
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• College Station Eagle: Falun Gong set to protest Jiang

  2002-10-20
  "All we want is for the persecution to stop" - Dianne Roberts, a spokesperson for Falun Gong in Houston.
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• Press Release: Chinese Officials’ Attack on U.S. Officials, Citizens

  2002-10-18
  "The Chinese government, not content with persecuting the Falun Gong in China, has [urged] local U.S. officials to shun or even persecute them right here in America. The approach... tends to combine gross disinformation with scare tactics and, in some cases, slyly implied diplomatic and commercial pressure." -- The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2002
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• Central News Agency: "U.S Government Officials Predict Religious Freedom to be Important Topic During Jiang-Bush Meeting"

  2002-10-18
  "On October 8, 2002, a U.S. government official said that the issue of religious freedom will "almost certainly" be the main topic of the meeting between Party leader Jiang Zemin and President Bush later this month, and the U.S government will mention religious freedom and the "very serious problem" of many Falun Gong practitioners' deaths while in custody in Mainland China, making those probably the main topic."
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• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local Falun Gong followers have message for China leader

  2002-10-18
  thousands of ...Falun Gong [practitioners will be] in Texas next week when Chinese President Jiang Zemin visits Bush...[they] plan to call attention to the Chinese government's three-year crackdown on the spiritual practice
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• The Daily Texan: Artist hopes to raise awareness

  2002-10-18
  In 1996, Cuiying suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis that inhibited her from painting. A year later, she was introduced to Falun Gong and her arthritis disappeared completely. She attributes it to the exercise and meditation..."Soon after I started practicing Falun Gong, [the arthritis] went away. I could paint again."
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• BBC Monitoring: Hong Kong grants permission for Falun Gong show

  2002-10-17
  The government has granted permission for Falun Gong [practitioners] to hold a variety show at the Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun town halls despite repeated applications from the group being rejected since last year. They have also been allowed to hold a photo exhibition at one of the venues.
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• SCMP: Regina Ip slugs it out with critics at rowdy forum

  2002-10-17
  Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was drawn into a [heated discussion] yesterday at a forum on the proposed anti-subversion law, during which she endured a 90-minute barrage of criticism.
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• The Standard: University Librarians In Subversion Law Plea

  2002-10-17
  [If Article 23 were passed] police [would] be granted the power to enter and search libraries if they are suspected to have publications which are seen as seditious. Librarians fear this may infringe academic freedom and the freedom of information.
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• Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong plans Texas protest

  2002-10-17
  About 50 Falun Gong [practitioners] demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy on Monday plan to carry their protest to Texas next week for President Bush's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
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• AFP (Agence France-Presse): China's Jiang to visit Chicago, Houston, San Francisco on US trip

  2002-10-17
  Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit the US cities of Chicago, Houston and San Francisco as well as President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on a trip from next week, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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• South China Morning Post: Draconian measures threaten HK freedoms

  2002-10-16
  Margaret Ng, a legislator representing the legal profession in Hong Kong, wrote in the SCMP, "A careful reading of the consultation paper reveals numerous draconian measures and serious pitfalls. These proposals surrender to the central authorities a fundamentally important part of the autonomy provided under the Basic Law." She supports the call for a white bill for further consultation.
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• SCMP: Article 23: let us debate the language of the law (Excerpt)

  2002-10-15
  The proposed legislation states; "we should defer to the decision of the central authorities based on the comprehensive information it possesses". [...]That means if the Chinese government proscribes Falun Gong on national security grounds, Hong Kong will follow suit, since Beijing knows best what is a threat to its national security.
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• Catholic News Service: President Bush urged to press China on religious, human rights

  2002-10-15
  A coalition of human and religious rights advocates called on President Bush to make human rights a top agenda item in meetings with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in late October.
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