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Denmark: Practitioners Continue to Send Forth Righteous Thoughts to Support the Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang
2003-04-21Practitioners from Denmark were joined by Swedish practitioners for this important activity to send forth righteous thoughts and to let more people know that the Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, who instigated the brutal persecution against Falun Dafa in 1999, will be brought to justice for his horrific crimes against humanity. -
Time Asia: Unmasking A Crisis
2003-04-21As a Time reporter continued through the ward, a nurse who wouldn't give her name stopped him and explained, "[...] All of these wards are full of SARS patients, there are over 100 at least. Don't believe the government--they never tell you the truth. They say it's a deadly disease with 4% mortality? Are you kidding me? The death rate is at least 25%. In this hospital alone, there are over 10 patients dead already." -
AP: Hundreds Demonstrate For Falun Gong Movement
2003-04-21'Several hundred demonstrators peacefully protested in Times Square and elsewhere in the city Saturday to attract attention to China's ban on the Falun Gong meditation movement. The protesters listened to music and speeches and passed out literature to people passing by in Chinatown and midtown Manhattan.' -
Jiangs Regime Persecutes a Dafa Practitioner in the Netherlands
2003-04-20Today, in order to force me to give up practising Falun Gong, the Chinese Embassy confiscated my passport. The Embassy's actions are inhumane. Looking at it from another angle, Chinese citizens have the freedom of belief, which is guaranteed by the Chinese Basic Law. What is the Chinese Embassys excuse for interfering with citizens right to believe, particularly when they are outside of China? -
Sweden: Teachers and Students Learn Falun Dafa Together
2003-04-20'During the Open Day, I held two introductory exercise-teaching classes: one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. As well as teaching the exercises I explained that Falun Dafa improves the mind as well as the body, and this improvement is based on improving ones moral standards in everyday life by assimilating to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.' -
UK: Falun Gong Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Outside Chinese Embassy to Support the Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang Zemin
2003-04-20Upon seeing our flyers and posters regarding the lawsuit against Jiang, many kind-hearted people said that this is really an effective way to solve the problem of the Jiang regime's persecution. They also expressed their understanding and support for our persistent peaceful appeal and sincerely wished us great success! -
Radio Free Asia Reports on Appeals in Support of Lawsuit Against Dictator Jiang Zemin
2003-04-20Radio Free Asia broadcast a report about Falun Gong practitioners in Germany and Europe holding peaceful appeals in front of the Chinese embassies to support the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. Practitioners are successively filing lawsuits in the courts of European countries, charging Jiang with genocide and anti-humanitarian acts through his persecution of Falun Gong. -
Central News Agency (Taiwan): SARS Strikes Beijing, Citizens Are In a Panic
2003-04-20"The Beijing Travel Bureau recently conducted an investigation of local hotels, and discovered that since March, hotel occupancy rates have seriously declined. A large number of tour groups have canceled their trips to Beijing. SARS has caused the country to "to stop all foreign contact" and people are in a panic. Both international conferences and general mass activities had to be canceled, causing a severe blow to the general development of the Chinese economy." -
EFGIC: Brother and Sister Hung by Their Wrists and Beaten - Brother Dies from Torture
2003-04-19'The police took the siblings to an outdoor yard. The police hung them both up by their wrists and then proceeded to beat them severely. These sources say that Mr. Chen was beaten until he spat up blood; his entire body was black and blue, and both his legs were broken. After the beatings, the police sent Mr. Chen to the Huailai Detention Centre.' -
Pohjolan Sanomat (Finland): Cultivation of Mind and Body
2003-04-19'Falun Dafa is an ancient Chinese qigong practice, which has been founded by Mr. Li Hongzhi. He brought his practice to the public in 1992 and ever since it has attracted millions of practitioners worldwide.' -
EFGIC: Lawyer for U.S. Rights Org Takes Aim at Overseas Assets of Chinese Officials Persecuting Falun Gong
2003-04-19'The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong recently launched an initiative targeting assets and properties of Chinese government officials who have participated in the persecution of Falun Gong in China.' -
The Swedish and Persian Versions of "Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou" are Now Available
2003-04-19The Swedish Video-CD of Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou and the simultaneously translated Persian video cassette version of Master Lis Lectures in Guangzhou are now available. -
Looking at the Credibility of China's Official Propaganda in Light of the SARS Outbreak
2003-04-19If the media had been allowed to cover the issue openly at the beginning of the outbreak, reveal the reality of the situation and the risk to the public and to people's lives, it would have resulted in the necessary precautions being instituted earlier. How many lives could have been saved in China and elsewhere? -
Ming Bao (Hong Kong Chinese Newspaper): Falun Gong Sues Immigration for Discrimination
2003-04-19'In total more than eighty Taiwan Falun Gong practitioners were refused entry to Hong Kong including the four plaintiffs. They had planned to attend the "World Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference" on February 22 2003. When they arrived at Hong Kong on February 21, the Immigration Office rejected their entry without reasonable explanation and expelled them...Two of the plaintiffs were violently expelled, though they offered no resistance.' -
Irish Practitioners Start Letter Writing Campaign to Rescue 2 Dublin Students Detained in China
2003-04-18Irish Falun Dafa Practitioners are appealing to all kind-hearted people to help their fellow practitioners who have been detained in China, by asking them to sign a petition letter and send it to the Chinese Embassy and the Irish Government. Here are some background details on their cases, and the petition letter.