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Press Release (Ireland): Happy Chinese New Year!
2003-02-01"The Chinese spring festival is a traditional family celebration in the Chinese Year. Similarly to the Irish Christmas period it is when family and friends come together...celebrate the coming of the New Year...Yet due to Jiang Zemins persecution of Falun Dafa in China many happy families have ben broken up and many family reunions will be incomplete. In Ireland there are many tragic examples."
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EFIC: 15 Falun Gong Practitioners Dead in China from Police Brutality, Torture or Forced Labour
2003-02-01On January 12th, 2003, the Municipal Procuratorate forced Qunyings family members to sign the autopsy report. The report did not list the time of death, the cause of death, or the time or steps taken to rescue her. Caidian District judiciary branches and the legislative committee of Caidian District demanded that Qunying's whole family admit that she committed suicide.
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Croatia: Falun Gong in the City of Rijeka
2003-02-01"Your master is truly a master. Other qigong masters just teach the movement and never explain the principles. Your master teaches the highest principle of the universe. He unselfishly taught this precious knowledge. Falun Gong and your master are wonderful."
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French Government Officials and Parliament Members Send New Year's Greetings to the France Falun Dafa Association (1)
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Reply to a Question from MEP on the Effect of Article 23 on Dafa Practitioners
2003-02-01"In addition, the Union has on several occasions undertaken formal demarches to express concern about report of torture and ill treatment of followers of the Falun Gong movement who have been arrested, and has urged China to review harsh sentences imposed on them."
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French Mayor: I Salute You for your Efforts to Respect Human Rights and Safeguard Democratic Values
2003-02-01"I paid close attention and fully understand the document, which is about the Falun Gong practitioners who are victims and are being persecuted in the Peoples Republic of China...Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention. I salute you for your efforts to respect human rights and safeguard democratic values."
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Letter from the Swiss Falun Gong Association to the Burma Consulate in Geneva
2003-02-01"We, who are citizens of Switzerland with its long tradition of human rights, find situations of this kind quite incomprehensible and totally unacceptable...How is it possible that in your country, which is currently making efforts to return to the international stage, displaying the words Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance can put an elderly man in prison for seven years? It is quite simply absurd and truly scandalous."
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Letter from the Irish Falun Dafa Association to the Ireland Minister for Foreign Affairs
2003-02-01"According to the media the Foreign Affairs Minister of Myanmar has been issued a special visa (despite sanctions) to travel to Belgium for the ASEAN-EU joint meeting. Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs use this opportunity to question Myanmar's Foreign Minister Win Aung on the case of Chan Wing-yuen?"
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DPA: China frees Australian Falun Gong member, detains American
2003-02-01China has allowed an Australian member of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to leave the country but has detained a U.S. citizen reportedly linked to the group, embassy officials said on Thursday.
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AFP: Australian [..] held for weeks in China, then expelled
2003-02-01"I was treated like a criminal by them," said Chen, adding she was repeatedly asked who sent for her, what she was doing in Chengdu and whom she was meeting..."They also questioned me about my trip to Chengdu two years ago," she said. She had then met local Falungong practitioners.
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UK: Jiangs Atrocities Astound the Western World - UK People Actively Join the Campaign to Rescue Baolian and Yongjie
2003-01-31Zhu Baolian, sister of UK resident Zhu Baosheng, and Zhu Yongjie, the fiancée of overseas student Dr. Xie Weiguo, have been illegally sentenced and imprisoned in China because they practise Falun Gong. Baolian and Yongjies stories have not only touched the hearts of the UK people, but also moved the Chinese people who have been able to see through the Jiang regimes lies. All kind-hearted people are awakening and seeing the truth behind the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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France: Overseas Chinese Communities Celebrate Chinese Spring Festival and Send Best Wishes to Falun Gong Practitioners Being Persecuted in China
2003-01-31Each of the guests was given a yellow ribbon. It symbolised that, as well as enjoying the celebration, they expressed their concerns and best wishes for those democracy supporters and Falun Gong practitioners who are suffering persecution and have been imprisoned for their belief in China.
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Netherlands: Letter from Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Falun Gong Foundation
2003-01-31"The European Union has, because of the insistence of The Netherlands and others, insisted, in dialogues with the authorities of Hong Kong SAR and in a public statement, on a secure safeguarding of the civil and political freedoms."
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VOA: China Detains American Falun Gong Member
2003-01-31'Falun Gong spokeswoman Sophie Xiao in Hong Kong expresses dismay over Mr. Lee's detention. Ms. Xiao said the charges against Mr. Lee could carry a penalty of 15 years in prison. "We really feel shocked because this persecution is not only being applied to Chinese citizens," she said. "Now the persecution against the Falun Gong has extended to foreign nationals."'
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ABC (Australia): Australian released in China after embassy move
2003-01-31'Ms Chen disappeared last week while visiting her parents in the city of Chengdu in south-west province of Sichuan. The embassy sent two consular officials to Chengdu yesterday after confirmation she had been detained by police. Chinese officials have made no public statement about her arrest.'