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Flushing Times, NY: Falun Gong parade march in Flushing goes smoothly
2003-02-07'..threatened with an investigation by the city's Commission on Human Rights, parade organizers at last Thursday's meeting decided to allow the group to march...Falun Gong practitioners contend that as their movement has shifted to the United States, persecution has followed them, and they point to the parade controversy as an example of such discrimination.'
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UK: Message of Support from Councillor Brian Coleman on International Human Rights Day
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France: Falun Gong Activities During Chinese New Year
2003-02-06During this years Chinese New Years celebrations in Paris, France, practitioners handed out information on Falun Gong and also balloons with "Falun Dafa is good" on them. So many balloons were handed out that they could be seen everywhere.
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Austrian Practitioners Respectfully Wish Master Li a Happy Chinese New Year
2003-02-06RealPlayer DownloadRealPlayer On-lineFor high resolution, please see main article
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AFP (Agence France-Presse): Hong Kong government "fixed subversion law consultation results"
2003-02-06Democracy Party Chairman 'Yeung accused the government of "political calculation" to show that those who agreed with the legislation outnumbered those against the laws, which rights groups fear could curtail basic freedoms. "I think this is unacceptable," he told local radio.'
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UK: Righteous Thoughts and Actions at a Chinese New Year Party in York
2003-02-05To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Chinese students attended an evening of music and dance at York University. Falun Dafa practitioners from Scotland and England also attended the performance in order to give the Chinese students the opportunity to learn about truth about Falun Gong and to expose to them the slanderous nature of all the media reports on Falun Gong in China.
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Ukrainian Practitioners Send New Year Greetings to Master Li
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UK:Collecting Petition Signatures in a University for the Rescue Our Family Members Campaign
2003-02-04After learning about the persecution, some people expressed their sympathy for the suffering Dafa practitioners in Mainland China and expressed their anger at the brutal persecution that the Jiang regime has enforced on Falun Gong. I told them how Canadian practitioners successfully rescued seven family members with the help of the Canadian government and citizens. They all felt encouraged and were happy to offer their help in any way possible.
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Belgium: Practitioners Reveal the Truth in the City of Antwerp's Chinatown
2003-02-04Many of the Chinese people have been deceived by the web of lies created by Jiang Zemin, so the practitioners hoped to help them see the goodness of Dafa and the truth about the brutal persecution being carried out by the Jiang regime.
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UK: Appealing in Front of the Chinese Consulate in Manchester
2003-02-04On the 14th January 2003, UK Dafa practitioners joined the worldwide peaceful appeal in front of Chinese embassies and consulates by holding an activity in front of the Chinese consulate in Manchester.
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A Chance Encounter between the Greek Premier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Practitioners from Europe and Australia
2003-02-03Just as I had finished preparing an album of paintings and truth-clarifying materials, the Premier came to visit us. He warmly greeted us and shook our hands. We also offered some materials to the Foreign Minister who accepted them and said that he has already heard of Falun Gong.
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Norway: Chinese New Year Celebrations in Oslo
2003-02-03On the first day of the Chinese new year, practitioners from Norway and Sweden hosted a cultural event to show some of the rich Chinese culture to the people of Oslo. The performances were very beautiful and moving. During the singing and dancing, some of the onlookers even shed tears.
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New Years Greetings to Master Li from Practitioners in Norway
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Digital Freedom Network: China blocks blog again
2003-02-03Chinese users who went to dweb.blogspot.com were automatically redirected to a nonworking I.P. address. The address formerly belonged to http://falundafa.ca, the site of a Canadian-registered organization that promotes Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that the Chinese government has labeled a threat to national security. Since the Canadian Falun Gong site is blocked in China, DynaWeb speculated that the redirecting was being done to discredit Falun Gong by making unsuspecting users think that Falun Gong had hijacked the sites being redirected.
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Australian Financial Review: Hong Kong Sees Red
2003-02-03New laws are to be introduced that threaten to radically change the way of life in Hong Kong, the way business is done and the protection of personal liberties. The government is proposing to widen its powers to act in cases of treason, secession, subversion and sedition, including theft of state secrets.