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• Reuters: Protesters Pour into the Hong Kong Streets

  2003-07-03
  'HONG KONG (Reuters) - Brandishing banners, umbrellas and fans, a crowd estimated at hundreds of thousands braved stifling heat on Tuesday to denounce Hong Kong's planned anti-subversion law and demand the right to elect their own leaders.'
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• Sweden: Practitioners hold Activities to Support the Anti-Article 23 Parade on July 1st in Hong Kong

  2003-07-02
  
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• UK: Thousands of People Learn about Bringing Jiang to Justice at the Edinburgh Chinese Consulate

  2003-07-02
  On the 28th and 29th of June, practitioners from Scotland gathered in Edinburgh to peacefully appeal in front of the Chinese Consulate. During these two days a well-known pop singer was performing in a stadium just behind the Consulate and there were 55,000 people passing by the Consulate on their way to the concert each day. Scottish practitioners therefore took the opportunity to expose the brutality in Jiang Zemin’s persecution of innocent Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Newsletter from the International Human Rights Organisation in Germany on the Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-07-02
  We felt that our freedom of expression enshrined in the German constitution was illegally curtailed. We believed that the words ‘Please Support the Lawsuit against Jiang Zemin for Committing Genocide in China’ displayed on the banners could cause no insult. If the information we tried to convey annoyed the Chinese consulate, then let them look at the suffering of the persecuted people in China.
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• Austria: Revealing the Truth about the Persecution through Music and Poetry

  2003-07-02
  Between music performances and poetry reading, the audience listened to the story of Dai Zhizhen, a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner with Australian citizenship, who lost a husband and a father due to the Jiang regime’s persecution. Practitioners told people about the arrest of U.S. citizen Charles Li, for being a Falun Gong practitioner. The audience was also told about “Yellow Express”, a group who aim to use their music to tell people about the persecution.
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• The Gothenburg Post: Condemning the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-07-02
  'On April 29, the Chinese Prime Minister paid a state visit to Thailand. On that day, I was arrested in my house in Bangkok. The Thai government wanted to deport me and revoked my visa. Later, I learned that the Chinese government had pressured the Thai government on this matter.'
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• RFI Radio Free Asia: Falun Gong Practitioners in Ireland Expose the Lies of the Jiang Regime during the 2003 Special Olympic Games

  2003-07-02
  "Today, I saw the Chinese delegation and the athletes receiving a warm welcome and a good service, which made me think that among our Falun Gong practitioners in China, not only the ordinary practitioners have been brutally persecuted and tortured, but also those practitioners with special needs have been persecuted and tortured as well. Some of them have even been tortured to death. I think that this brutal crackdown should not have happened."
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• Agence France Presse (AFP): Proposed Hong Kong Legislation could Undermine Autonomy: EU

  2003-07-02
  "(The EU) has now studied the... proposed amendments issued on 3 and 6 June. The European Union welcomes the proposed changes but regrets that the elements relating to the proscription of local organisations remain fundamentally unchanged," [written statement by the EU]
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• Members of the UK House of Lords Support the Lawsuit Against Jiang

  2003-07-01
  While Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin is being sued in Chicago’s Federal Court, former member of the UK House of Lords, Lord Moyne (2nd from right), gave a speech expressing his support for the lawsuit. Many other Lords, including Lord Hylton (2nd from left) and Lord Avebury, have expressed their support for Falun Gong.
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• France: Photo Report - Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa at Bastille Square to Support Bringing Jiang to Justice

  2003-07-01
  
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• Germany: A Successful Falun Gong Demonstration at Magdeburg Mid-Summer Night Festival

  2003-07-01
  Several hundred college students and visitors gathered in the University campus to watch many different performances. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and gave a voiceover outlining the practice. The demonstration lasted more than ten minutes and was very successful, receiving enthusiastic applause from the audience. In the University, there were many students from China. They saw clearly the huge difference between the false propaganda manufactured by the Jiang regime and the truth about Falun Gong.
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• Switzerland: Photo Report - Practitioners Tell People the Facts in Zurich University on the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

  2003-07-01
  
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• France: Photo Report – Promoting Falun Dafa in Chinatown to Support the Global Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin

  2003-07-01
  
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• UK: A Parade Against HK's Article 23 Legislation Held in London

  2003-07-01
  The “Global Coalition against Article 23 Legislation” held a press conference and parade in London to support the people of Hong Kong’s appeal against Article 23. UK citizens who are concerned about the democracy, freedom, and future of Hong Kong, including some Falun Gong practitioners, took part in this parade.
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• The Guardian: Hong Kong's Flawed Law

  2003-07-01
  'The most worrying clause requires the government to proscribe any group found to be linked to an already proscribed mainland organisation. The obvious example is the Falun Gong [group], already banned on the mainland where it is claimed, ludicrously, to be a threat to national security.'
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