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• Epoch Times: Chinese Government Interference Leads to Challenges for New Tang Dynasty TV's Press Permit Application For Geneva Human Rights Conference (photo)

  2003-03-17
  The reason given was that NTD TV is a non-profit organization. A spokeswoman said, "This reason cannot be accepted, as AP and VOA are also non-profit organizations. Both of them have obtained permission. Based on our investigation, some UN officials disclosed that the Chinese Government had exerted pressure and is not happy with the New Tang Dynasty TV's reports on Falun Gong."
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• Sweden: Letter from the Dafa Association to the Foreign Minister Regarding the UN Human Rights Commission

  2003-03-17
  The United Nations Human Rights Commission is about to be held in Geneva. We hope that Sweden can take the initiative to nominate a resolution condemning China for its serious violation of human rights as well as the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.
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• More Details of MEP Marco Pannella`s Question to the European Commission on the Persecution against Falun Gong in China

  2003-03-17
  "Considering that since 1999: - according to public and well-known information provided by the Falun Dafa Information Centre, Amnesty International and other major international and national NGOs, Mr. Jiang Zemin, the leader of China, has begun the persecution of the more than 100 million people Falun Gong practitioners..."
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• Opening speech of the European Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience-Sharing Conference, Geneva, 2003

  2003-03-16
  Today we are here together with fellow practitioners from more than forty countries. We have, this time, received numerous experience sharing reports. So many that the limited conference duration will leave many speeches unheard. This Fa-conference will also be unique in that many speakers are coming from countries from which no speech has ever been given before.
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• Germany: Letter from the Chairman of Duisburg City Committee to the Mayor of Wuhan City, Calling for the Release of Lin Wenrong

  2003-03-16
  After talking with the practitioners, the Chairman of the City Committee wrote a letter to the Mayor of Wuhan City, telling him about Lin’s arrest. He voiced his sympathy and concern for Lin who might easily be suffering from torture and ill-treatment. In his letter, he also mentioned how worried Lin’s friends are about her detention, and that he would try every possible means to help her return to Dusseldorf as soon as possible.
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• Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor Press Release: An Assessment of Article 23

  2003-03-16
  'We remain of the view that the Bill is not needed to catch any genuinely criminal organisation or activities, as these are amply catered for under existing law, and that some of its provisions are still open to misuse in future to persecute those who are unpopular with the Mainland authorities but are merely exercising their rights of free speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly in Hong Kong.'
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• Italy: Practitioners File Lawsuit Against Those Responsible for Slandering Falun Gong

  2003-03-15
  In order to uphold justice and to warn those who were slandering Dafa that there actions would not be accepted, practitioners filed a lawsuit against the people responsible for the slanderous exhibitions and newspaper articles, including Shu Maogao, the Consul General of the Chinese Consulate in Milan who published defamatory articles in a Chinese newspaper called “European Chinese Newspaper”. This article incited hatred and threatened Falun Gong practitioners.
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• MEP Tables Question to European Commission on the Persecution Against Falun Gong

  2003-03-15
  Pannella denounces the fact that the “crusade” launched by Jang Zemin in 1999 now affects 100 million followers of Falun Gong, and has already led to hundreds of deaths, thousands of barbaric episodes of torture and the imprisonment of tens of thousands of people, as denounced by Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch and the Falun Dafa Center of New York.
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• EFGIC: Two School Teachers Among Four Latest Falun Gong Death Reports

  2003-03-14
  The details of four more Falun Gong deaths have been confirmed by sources in China. All four of these practitioners were sentenced to forced labour camps in attempts to have them renounce their practice of Falun Gong. In each case, the practitioners refused to recant their beliefs. As a result, they were brutally tortured to the edge of death. Three of them were released to die quietly at home as officials attempted to shirk responsibility for the deaths they have caused.
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• Latvia: Falun Gong Practitioner’s Art Exhibition Opens in Riga

  2003-03-14
  On March 5, Zhang Cui Ying, an Australian Falun Gong practitioner and a painter, was officially invited to hold a three-day Art exhibition in Riga, Latvia...Several newspapers, a magazine for women as well as the local radio station interviewed Ms. Zhang...The governor of the police headquarters also made a special visit.
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• Germany: Practitioners Present the Facts About Falun Gong at a Meeting of General Committee for University Students

  2003-03-14
  The attendees saw the peacefulness of Falun Gong practitioners, the spreading of Falun Gong around the world and the fierceness and cruelty of Jiang’s regime, who is nothing but a group of evil political scoundrels.
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• The Russian Dafa Association Congratulates the Establishment of the Philippines Dafa Association

  2003-03-14
  "The Establishment of Philippines Dafa Association marks a very important step...Warm congratulations on the establishment of the Philippines Dafa Association."
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• Congratulations from the Austrian Falun Dafa Association to the Establishment of Falun Dafa Associations in the Philippines and Moscow

  2003-03-14
  "It is great to hear about the establishment of Falun Dafa Association in the Philippines, Moscow, Reibinsk, Yaraslafli and St. Petersburg. Please all accept our sincerest congratulations from the Austrian Falun Dafa Association. Your establishment demonstrates that more and more people understand Dafa"
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• Congratulations from the French Dafa Association on the Establishment of the Philippines Dafa Association

  2003-03-14
  "On behalf of all Dafa practitioners in France, the French Dafa Association offer the heartiest congratulations on the establishment of the Philippines Dafa Association...As Dafa practitioners in this special period, we should use our righteous thoughts and actions to diligently do everything.
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• Congratulations from the UK Falun Gong Association on the Establishment of the Moscow Dafa Association

  2003-03-14
  "We are proud and pleased to hear of the establishment of the Dafa Association in Moscow, Reibinsk and Yaraslafli. UK Falun Gong Association offers our heartiest congratulations"
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