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• US Congressional Commission calls on President Bush to press Jiang Zemin on the issue of human rights

  2002-10-04
  A congressional panel has issued a report criticizing human-rights abuses in China and recommending ways the United States can help China improve its rule of law. The panel also calls on President Bush to press China on the issue of human rights when he meets later this month in Texas with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.[read full text]
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• Reuters: Panel urges active US role on China human rights

  2002-10-03
  In its first report, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China took Chinese leaders to task for human rights abuses..."China's leaders still do not respect fundamental international standards on many rights for the Chinese people," the commission said...the panel highlighted Beijing's suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual group.
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• South China Morning Post: Multinationals Making a Mint from China’s Great Firewall

  2002-10-03
  "There is a growing trend towards holding multinational corporations accountable for any degree of complicity with repressive governments in human-rights abuses...The United Nations, meanwhile, is exploring ways to bring corporations under the same umbrella of human-rights laws that apply to states."
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• Association for Asian research: Beijing's think-tanks: China re-enters a period of social instability

  2002-10-03
  "Three 40-something scholars with substantial influence over the Chinese leadership have co-authored their newest report on China’s social dilemma [..] entitled “Social Instability behind the Economic Prosperity"[..]. In it, they send their most serious warning yet to the Chinese leadership that its society has entered into a period of instability wherein terrible turmoil and crisis loom."
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• Ha’aretz (a daily newspaper in Israel): Members of Falun Gong protest in Tel Aviv

  2002-10-03
  Falun Gong practitioners protesting yesterday outside the Chinese Embassy in Tel Aviv against the Chinese government's crack down on the meditation movement.
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• Financial Times: National security move makes it hard for HK to claim it is business as usual

  2002-10-02
  "Hong Kong, a city with civil liberties enshrined in its post-colonial constitution, stands poised to enact laws on sedition and subversion that would in many cases allow its Communist sovereign, which has been often- criticised on civil liberties grounds, to define what sort of behaviour crosses the line."
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• Reuters: Hong Kong activists protest China's violation of rights [Excerpt]

  2002-10-02
  "The planned law, unveiled last week, has raised concerns it could be used against anyone whom China or Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government finds objectionable, such as political dissidents and Falun Gong adherents. "This would allow a dictator to impose his own will on the government and people, and spread the human rights abuses, persecution of Falun Gong and other peaceful groups to Hong Kong,""
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• Time Magazine: Subverting Hong Kong's Autonomy

  2002-10-02
  "It's taken a few years, but now Beijing has what it wants: complete control."
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• International Herald Tribune: China's 'Great Firewall' limits Internet

  2002-10-02
  E-mail sent containing sensitive words such as 'Falun Gong,' for example, have been blocked from being downloaded. In some users' experience, all subsequent e-mail messages in their accounts remained blocked until the offending e-mail was deleted via a Web-based e-mail system.
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• Taipei Times (Taiwan): MAC says Beijing kept it in the dark (Excerpt)

  2002-10-01
  "Chang Ching-his, the Falun Gong's branch leader in Taiwan and a professor of economics at National Taiwan University, has denied Beijing's accusations that Taiwan-based members of the movement were responsible for interfering with the satellite signals."
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• The Associated Press: China Holds Falun Gong Follower Suspected of Planning [Interception of] Cable TV Broadcas

  2002-10-01
  "Over the last six months, Falun Gong sympathizers have repeatedly [tapped] into local television systems to show videos protesting Beijing's 3-year-old crackdown on the spiritual movement."
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• Central News Agency (Taiwan): The Courts and Media in China Are Accomplices in the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2002-09-30
  "Ever since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime began the persecution of this practice, which has attracted tens of millions of people, the media in China have been used to demonize Falun Gong. Courts also do not uphold justice when trying and sentencing Falun Gong cases. The media and the courts in China have become accomplices of Jiang's government in the persecution of Falun Gong."
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• In These Times (Online publication): Shanghai Surprise

  2002-09-29
  "China has taken the battle against the Falun Gong outside its borders. Beijing convinced Cambodia to deport two Falun Gong practitioners who had fled to Phnom Penh and has used its consulates in America to harass Falun Gong adherents. One Falun Gong follower in Washington claims that Chinese agents have recorded his private conversations and then left the recordings on his answering machine to intimidate him. Beijing also may have influenced the stance of Hong Kong’s government and media toward Falun Gong."
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• AFP: Hong Kong's proposed anti-subversion law stokes concern

  2002-09-29
  Kan Hung-cheung, a spokesman for the Falungong spiritual group which is banned in China but legal in Hong Kong, slammed the proposed legislation as being part of a "plot" by Chinese president Jiang Zemin "to expand the persecution of the group." "No matter how the government explains it, it is targetting us," said Kan.
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• South China Morning Post: Article 23 to test Hong Kong's autonomy

  2002-09-29
  [The Secretary for Security] admitted the government would have no way to challenge a decision to ban a group over national security...it is inconceivable the Falun Gong will still be able to operate freely in the SAR if it is categorised a threat to national security on the mainland.
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