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• Report from Spanish Newspaper - "World Health Organization Criticizes China Again for Manipulation of SARS-Infected Population"

  2003-05-16
  The World Health Organization has published a straightforward condemnation of the Communist regime in China. The WHO also firmly indicated that the Chinese authorities continue to cover up the facts, and manipulate the SARS-infected population so that the world is kept from panic.
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• CNN: China Censors CNN SARS Report

  2003-05-16
  In recent months, many CNN reports on controversial government issues -- human rights, Tibet, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement -- have been blacked out. "We regret the Chinese action and we are checking the circumstances and details of the interruption," a CNN spokesman said. "In the meantime, we will continue reporting forthrightly and responsibly on SARS and other important matters."
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• Post and Courier (NC): China Shuns Doctor Who Told SARS Truth, WHO says

  2003-05-16
  "Most people in China don't read Caijing, a business biweekly with a small circulation and a reputation for daring reportage. And they don't have access to newspapers like the Singapore Straits Times, which said in a recent column, "In other countries, Dr. Jiang would probably have been lauded as a national hero." Instead, Jiang remains an unknown figure in China, neither praised nor punished, but who has been asked by the government not to talk to the press without prior permission, though he spoke briefly with a reporter on Tuesday."
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• Swedish Embassy Submits Official Protest to Thai Foreign Ministry

  2003-05-15
  The Swedish Embassy in Thailand last week demanded an immediate explanation into the reason for the detention of a Swedish citizen and Falun Gong practitioner, Mrs. Pirjo Svensson. The Thai Foreign Ministry has still not responded. Mrs. Svensson has now been detained for 15 days unlawfully without an explanation.
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• Norway: “Falun Gong” Printed in Norwegian

  2003-05-15
  During the book launch, practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts and practised the fifth exercise, the sitting meditation. This created a very peaceful atmosphere. The audience listened with great attention and asked many questions during and after the event.
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• Oxford University Journal Carries a 15-Page Article on Falun Gong

  2003-05-15
  'History has witnessed many persecutions of righteous beliefs yet none of these suppressions succeeded. The current persecution in China is doomed to meet the same fate. If there is any difference, it may be that the efforts of the practitioners and the world community will make the suppression much shorter-lived.'
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• Switzerland: Grandfather Writes to an MP Calling for Action to End the Persecution

  2003-05-13
  After reading the latest information about the persecution of Falun Gong in a newspaper, the grandfather decided to help practitioners in China. He wrote a letter to a superintendent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is also an MP, appealing for help stop the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. He cannot understand why this practice, which brings so many benefits to his grandson, has been banned and brutally persecuted in China.
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• Sweden: Supporting the Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin

  2003-05-13
  Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm gathered at the Chinese Embassy to send forth righteous thoughts and hand out flyers that revealed the facts about the persecution. This appeal was part of the worldwide effort by Dafa practitioners to further expose the crimes that Jiang’s regime has committed against Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Office of the EU Commissioner on Foreign Affairs Expresses Concern Over Article 23 Legislation in Hong Kong

  2003-05-13
  "..the EU also underlined that the proscription mechanism, as well as the broad definition of sedition offences, remain specific areas of concern to the EU. It reiterated that the handling of the Article 23 legislation would be an important test for the “One country, two systems” principle and called on the Hong Kong authorities to go on upholding the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Basic Law.”
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• Sweden: Practitioners Tell People about the Lawsuits Against Jiang and the Lies Behind the Spreading of SARS in China

  2003-05-12
  A new flyer was given out, detailing the lawsuits against Jiang Zemin for genocide and crimes against humanity and the Jiang regime’s risking of countless lives in an attempt to cover up the SARS epidemic. As usual, practitioners combined clarifying the facts of the persecution with exercise demonstrations in public.
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• Letter to the Irish Falun Dafa Association from the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister)

  2003-05-12
  "..both the Minister for Foreign Affairs and I together with our EU partners, continue to raise these issues with the Chinese authorities. We view with concern the human rights situation in China, including that of Falun Gong, and our Embassy in Beijing is monitoring these issues carefully."
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• Letter from Denmark Falun Gong Association Calling for the Release of Pirjo Svensson

  2003-05-12
  "The Swedish Embassy in Bangkok has been requesting an explanation from the Thai authorities but as of yet no reply has been given. The arbitrary and groundless arrest of Mrs. Svensson by the Thai authorities, as well as the Thai Authorities’ lack of openness and willingness to come forth in this case, is sending out a disturbing message about the true motives and intentions behind the arrest."
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• Sweden: Practitioners Perform the “Lotus Flower” Dance at a School

  2003-05-12
  “Lotus Flower” is a performance, which uses dance, music and poetry to reveal the truth about Falun Gong and the Jiang regime’s brutal persecution of over 70 million practitioners. After three performances, Swedish practitioners were invited into each class to tell the students more about Falun Gong and the situation in China.
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• The Asian Wall Street Journal: China's Turning Point

  2003-05-12
  'Commentators have praised China's new president and premier for finally taking decisive steps late last month to combat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS. What is not said is that they acted only after Chinese doctors and nurses openly contradicted their government and made the continuation of the cover-up, which had lasted almost half a year, untenable. Leaders in the Chinese capital were, for the first time in a decade, left with no real choice but to tell the truth, since health care professionals were already telling all they knew to the foreign media and the World Health Organization.'
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• AP: WHO: Beijing's SARS Data Seriously Flawed

  2003-05-12
  'China's SARS data has serious flaws because the information does not show how half of the country's patients caught the highly contagious respiratory illness, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Saturday."Right now the situation is that we have a whole load of people, and we don't know where they got the disease," WHO spokeswoman Mangai Balasegaram told The Associated Press. "The problem with the data is that there are holes in it."'
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