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Dow Jones International News: CHINA WATCH: Taiwan's Falun Leader Frets China Collapse
2002-10-10
"Last month, Beijing hurled more accusations against the Falun Gong. China alleged a Taiwan-based broadcast outfit was used by Falun Gong to hack into China's top television satellite systems. Taiwan officials are looking into the matter, but one said such possibilities are "farfetched."" -
Taipei Times (Taiwan): Letters - The Wrong Side of History
2002-10-09"Nobody knows when or how it will come to an end, but it most certainly will. The PRC's continued suppression of the Falun Gong and its ethnic minorities, its censorship of the Internet and its lies will eventually prove too much for Beijing to bear." -
China Post: U.S. report slams PRC human rights record
2002-10-09Government controls on the dissemination of information also remains "strict," states the report. While reporting of official corruption has been permitted as part of the government's attempt to crack down on corruption, direct criticism of the Communist Party is prohibited. Limits are imposed on topics deemed sensitive, including workers' protests, rural unrest, Taiwan independence, Falun Gong, corruption at high levels and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. -
Daily Texan: Falun Gong practitioners ask President for assistance (Photo)
2002-10-09Jane Zhizhen Dai and her 2-year-old daughter, Fadu, were left behind when her husband, Chenyong, was arrested, tortured and eventually killed. She now travels worldwide to tell her story. "I'm only one of thousands of families who suffer, and they don't have a chance to speak for themselves. I speak for them from my heart," Dai said. -
Globe and Mail: China stifling dissent on Internet
2002-10-08"BEIJING -- The illicit e-mail seemed tantalizingly close, glowing quietly in a Hotmail inbox in Beijing. But a click on it produces nothing except an ominous beep and an error message. And then the entire inbox seizes up, freezing helplessly until the computer is rebooted." -
Taipei Times: MAC (Mainland Affairs Council) hopes Hong Kong can retain its freedoms
2002-10-08"The anti-sedition legislation has sparked concern about freedom of speech since the power to interpret the law is vested in the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress...Some have said that, under such laws, China might designate Falun Gong as a national security threat. The spiritual group is still legal in Hong Kong." -
Taipei Times: Time to protest HK's subversion law is now
2002-10-08"The document further stipulates that the secretary for security has the power to outlaw Hong Kong groups affiliated with "proscribed organizations" in China that "endanger national security," or those which "organize or support the activities of proscribed organizations." This article is aimed at the Falun Gong." -
Het Parool (Dutch newspaper): Falun Gong exercises take grandmother (85) to prison
2002-10-08"Practitioners say they do not form an organisation or political movement. Neither is it a religion. It’s free and it makes you feel better. What practitioners of Falun Gong stand for are three fundamental values: truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. What can be wrong about that? asks Wang Xianghe to herself at the Dam, where a demonstration was being held last Sunday. “We want to become good people. Happier and more healthy.”" -
Holland: Amsterdam Local television broadcasts program about persecuted Dutch-Chinese family
2002-10-08On Friday the 4th of October, Salto 2, an Amsterdam local television station, broadcasted a 30-minute documentary about the Dutch-Chinese family Warnaar-Wang. Almost all members of the family practise Falun Gong. The family members that live in China are victims of the severe and inhumane persecution of Falun Gong. -
Calgary Herald: Google in China and the real Internet censors
2002-10-07"The interesting thing about China's recent efforts to block access to Google, the U.S. Internet search engine, is not the Beijing leadership's readiness to censor. We already knew about that. No, the interesting thing is the readiness of Web sites such as Yahoo! to censor themselves to survive in the Chinese market. That's where the lesson lies, and the true disgrace..." -
Christian Science Monitor: China's Move on Hong Kong
2002-10-05"China's slow march toward openness took a big leap backward last week. Beijing forced the leaders in Hong Kong, which China took over in 1997, to put forth tough new laws that would end up stifling political dissent and the media in that major Asian city." -
Washington Post: Banned in Hong Kong
2002-10-04'Not only has political freedom not expanded significantly in China, it is steadily shrinking in Hong Kong, despite Beijing's promise to respect the formula of "one nation, two systems." Moreover, many of those who promised to be vigilant about Hong Kong's rights at the time of the hand-over -- or to fight for their expansion -- have been apathetic about their erosion.' -
AFP: Hong Kong's Chan calls for debate on subversion law
2002-10-04'Chan called on Hong Kong's people to have the courage to speak up to defend their freedoms, saying "we will not serve the best interests of our country, nor those of our children and grandchildren, if we allow them to be gradually chipped away for the sake of expedience, or a short-sighted solution to a far-reaching problem."' -
Far Eastern Economic Review: Hong Kong - A Time for Prayer
2002-10-04'The Falun Gong spiritual movement is seen as one of the more likely potential targets of Hong Kong's proposed new national security laws.' -
Associated Press: Hackers hit Hong Kong newspaper; Falun Gong suspected
2002-10-04'But a Hong Kong-based spokesman for Falun Gong said the meditation [group] was not responsible for the hacking. "Just because the users are redirected to the Falun Gong Web site doesn't mean Falun Gong did it," Kan Hung-cheung said. "We suspect others are trying to frame Falun Gong with these kinds of tricks. In a free and open society, you don't have to resort to these tactics."'
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