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An Overseas Practitioner's Mother Begins Practising Falun Dafa While Visiting from China
2003-05-25She came from China in order to visit me and had originally planned to convince me to stop practising Falun Gong during her visit. After she arrived, she learnt the truth about Falun Dafa, and soon discovered that all the Dafa practitioners she met are kind people. As a result, she decided to find out what the Falun Dafa books really contain. -
Falun Dafa Broadcast Heard Above Pengxi County Detention Centre in Suining City, Sichuan Province
2003-05-22On May 11, 2003, from 11:50 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., a Falun Dafa truth-clarifying broadcast was heard coming from the area around Pengxi County Detention Centre in Suining City, Sichuan Province. The sound could be heard throughout one third of the county. During the night, the news about the lawsuit against Jiang in the United States and the establishment of the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong was heard in Pengxi County. -
Prison Inmates Benefit from Learning the True Facts About Falun Gong
2003-05-21A lady of forty was subjected to torture with the use of every torture instrument that the police could find. She was introduced to the teachings of Falun Gong in the detention centre. She said it would be nice if the methods of torture that she had experienced were for practising Falun Dafa. When I brought Teacher's new articles into the cell, she was very happy to read them. She was especially excited when she saw the pictures of Teacher sending forth righteous thoughts. She asked, "Can you bring in some Falun Gong leaflets? I really want to read some leaflets." -
No Persecution Can Shake My Determination to Practise Falun Dafa
2003-05-11The following is what a Dafa practitioner in Liaoning Province has witnessed and experienced. It shows us how Jiang's regime persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. This practitioner was illegally arrested and sent to the Guangming Police Substation in Jizhuo District, Dalian City, where police beat and shocked her with electric batons so that her whole body was covered with bruises. She was later sent to a forced labour camp where she witnessed how police beat, force-fed, and used instruments of torture to persecute practitioners. None of this can shake her determination in truly cultivating herself and becoming a better person. -
Righteously Standing Up Against The Persecution
2003-05-10Before, practising Falun Gong, an 80-year-old man often couldn't walk due to pains in his leg. His son is a Falun Dafa practitioner and persuaded him to cultivate in Falun Dafa. After he began his cultivation, this man's symptoms vanished and he became healthy once again. One day a member of staff from the "610 Office" came to his home to harass him. The man asked this person sternly, "My leg pain disappeared after I began to practise Falun Gong. Are you going to carry me around if you don't want me to practise Falun Gong?" Surprised and speechless, the staff member from the "610 Office" left without another word. -
Citizens Of China Disregard Jiang's Orders
2003-05-10Right at that moment, my husband came to visit me. He is a very tall person, and he was able to block five of them so that the other practitioners and I could escape. I ran until I was out of breath. Just when I could run no farther, a taxi pulled up, but the persecutors were catching up to us. They shouted to the taxi diver," Do not take them, they are Falun Gong practitioners!" The taxi driver shook his fist and said to them, "So what if they practise Falun Gong. If you want to beat up a practitioner, why don't you come and try me first?" Later on the taxi driver told us his father-in-law is a practitioner. -
Chinese Policeman : You have to say Falun Dafa is Good, and be sincere
2003-05-07When posting Dafa banners and posters, her husband would squat down, letting her stand on him so that she could post them higher. In the area where they live, the police hired several persons to watch at night and catch Dafa practitioners who distribute truth-clarifying materials. This practitioner's husband warned the thugs, "Why would you want to earn such dirty money? Aren't you afraid of suffering karmic retribution? Do not dare to report my wife." -
Son Collects Signatures to Rescue Highly-Respected Doctor Sent to Forced Labour Camp
2003-05-07After the father was illegally detained in the forced labour camp, his son realised that he should take the opportunity to clarify the truth to people and rescue his father, rather than enduring it passively. He began to clarify the truth to his neighbours, and then to villagers. He even started collecting signatures on a petition to rescue his father. Because his father is the local doctor and has good standing reputation, many people sympathised with the courageous young man and they bravely signed their names. -
The Fruits of Comprehensively Clarifying the Truth of the Persecution -- Chinese Regime Unconditionally Releases the Family Members of Practitioner Wang Yuzhi
2003-05-05Ms. Wang Yuzhi said that her younger brother Wang Chengyuan is still detained in a prison in Harbin. According to reliable sources, the police expressed that they did not want to detain Mr. Wang Chengyuan and they wanted to release him...Ms. Wang commented: "All of these events have demonstrated that more and more people in mainland China, who had been deceived [by the government's propaganda], have begun to resist the evil. They don't want to assist the evil and serve as Jiang Zemin's scapegoats." -
Police Flee Under Criticism and Ridicule From Neighbours
2003-05-04Over the phone, he told his wife, "The police will send me home, do not open the door." The police were concerned after hearing that, and put him in the police car and drove to his home immediately, in order to avoid their responsibility for his condition. They put him in the bed and told his wife, "We brought him back," and ran away. His wife walked out and said, "You detained him illegally." The police ran to the car and told the driver, "Start the car, run." The police ran away under the neighbours' criticism, and ridicule. -
An Elementary School Student Righteously Writes, "Falun Gong Is Really Miraculous," During His School's Signature Collection Campaign
2003-05-04In a city in Northeast China, an elementary school student felt that Falun Gong was remarkable and miraculous after he saw so many people practising Falun Gong. In 2001, his school collected signatures to oppose Dafa. He quietly signed, "Falun Gong is really miraculous." -
Chinese Citizens get a Clearer Understanding of Official Chinese Media Reports
2003-05-01My mother also mentioned that through this [SARS] incident, people have a clear understanding of whats going on in Chinese news reports. People realise that past propagandas are actually not to be believed. For example, reports on the war between USA and Iraq have been used to fan up the anti-American feeling. Mother also said now people wont be fooled anymore. This time even people who are not sharp are awakening to the truth. -
Kindhearted Taxi Driver Helps a Falun Dafa Practitioner Whom He Has Never Met Before
2003-05-01The taxi driver did not charge him for the ride. Instead, he took out 20 Yuan and gave it to the practitioner. The practitioner was very touched and promised that he would pay the driver back. However, the driver replied, "No need. I am very happy to be able to help you. You are all good people." -
Concealing the Extent of the SARS Outbreak Angers the Public -- Only Seven Provinces Have No Cases So Far
2003-04-29Many Chinese people still don't feel that the government officials have started telling the truth and are very indignant. One opinion holds that SARS is not only an infection on the verge of being out of control, but is also a political crisis, which may cause far-reaching effects on the relationship between the government and the common people. -
Activities in Ireland Help Reveal the Facts to People in China
2003-04-28My young cousin (not a Dafa practitioner) went to Ireland in 2001 to work. In the letters he wrote to his parents in China, he would attach some photos and reports from various newspapers and magazines about the activities of Falun Dafa practitioners. We are all very excited when we got to read them!