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• Chinese New Year Party in Sweden – Little Practitioners Dance to Music of “Falun Dafa Hao”

  2003-01-25
  
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• EFIC: National Security Bureau Agents of Jiang’s Regime Kidnap Australian Woman

  2003-01-25
  Nancy and her daughter travelled to China on January 17 to visit her parents. On January 20, after she went to visit some friends in Chengdu, her family didn’t hear from her again until 6:00am on January 22, when her mother received a call from Nancy, saying: “I have been kidnapped near the American Consulate, Chengdu..."
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• Herald Sun (Australia): Kidnap fears plague family

  2003-01-25
  On Wednesday, she phoned her mother with the message: "I have been kidnapped near the American Consulate, Chengdu..."They searched and took all my files including passport. Please ring my husband and ask the Australian Government to save me.".. Falun Gong was banned in China in 1999. Since then, 557 practitioners have died as a result of torture or brutality..
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• EFIC: Elderly man jailed for 7 Years for “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” Banner

  2003-01-25
  While in detention, officials from the Chinese Embassy supervised as local Burmese police repeatedly demanded that Mr. Chan present a written promise to forsake practicing Falun Gong, a demand commonly imposed on practitioners in China. In exchange for acting against his conscience, they offered him personal freedom.
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• Sweden: People say “You’ve done well!” when receiving materials from Practitioners

  2003-01-24
  Groups of people watched the exercise demonstration and chatted with practitioners about Falun Gong and the persecution. Afterwards, many showed a great interest in Falun Gong and went directly to the library to borrow Falun Gong books.
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• UK Practitioner Writes to Beijing Mayor calling for Release of Imprisoned Sisters

  2003-01-24
  "China has signed international agreements to uphold human rights, but now is the darkest period in China’s glorious 5000-year history. Human rights are non-existent as Jiang Zemin attempts to rule the country through terror and violence. Many millions of innocent people are suffering. I am very concerned for the safety of Li Xiaobing and Li Xiaomei...."
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• Irish Practitioner writes to Authorities in Myanmar calling for Immediate Release of Wrongfully Imprisoned Hong Kong Practitioner

  2003-01-24
  "Through worldwide reports from governmental sources, human rights organisations and other third party reports, I have learned how Jiang Zemin has attempted to force his persecution abroad with death threats, beatings, destruction of property, refusal to renew passports etc. Myanmar is another example of his attempted extension of the persecution."
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• AFP: Falungong petitions HK chief to release old practitioner in Myammar

  2003-01-24
  '[Falun Gong practitioners] urged Tung to help secure the release of Hong Kong native Chan Wing-yuen, 71, arrested in Rangoon December 12, 2001, for unfurling a Falungong banner during President Jiang Zemin's visit.'
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• French International Radio Station Broadcasts News about the Founding of the “World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong”

  2003-01-24
  This is a report from the Chinese program of the French International Radio Station, which broadcasts to Mainland China and the Greater Paris area.
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• Dafa Practitioners Perform at Chinese Students' New Year Celebrations

  2003-01-23
  UK Falun Dafa practitioners performed at a Chinese Students' New Year celebration party. The number of people attending was estimated to be in the region of 600...After the event, many people took VCDs and other material revealing the truth about the Jiang regime's persecution of practitioners in China.
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• Amnesty International Magazine Reports on Persecution of Falun Gong

  2003-01-23
  'Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested. Several dozen have been convicted and imprisoned after unfair trials. Thousands have been assigned, without any judicial process, to 're-education through labour'. And several hundred may have died as a result of torture.'
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• UK: Practitioners Collect Signatures in Cambridge to Rescue Family Members Persecuted in China

  2003-01-22
  During the signature drive, people from many different walks of life signed their names. Some asked us if we would continue the signature drive at the same place the next day because they wanted to bring their friends and relatives to sign. Some of them wrote down our address or took a blank form home or to their office to let others sign their names.
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• AFP (Agence France-Presse): Trade unions say Hong Kong's new security laws threaten rights

  2003-01-22
  'More than 1,000 trade unionists from around the world have sent e-mails to Hong Kong's chief warning that planned security laws threaten political and civil rights, labour groups said. Meanwhile, Bill Rammell, British parliamentary under-secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, said he had told Chinese officials during a recent visit to Beijing that international confidence in Hong Kong would be undermined if the issue were mishandled.'
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• British FCO Minister Comments on Article 23 of the Basic Law, "The Devil is in the Details"

  2003-01-21
  The Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister, Mr. Bill Rammell strongly expressed ..that the British government hopes the special district government will conduct a thorough and wide consultation and proceed with caution on the enactment process; otherwise the international community will have less confidence in Hong Kong, which would have negative impact on Hong Kong.
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• Germany: Activities at the Health Exhibition in Tubingen

  2003-01-21
  “I had a feeling that I was seeking something for many years, but I didn’t know what it was. At the beginning, I thought that it was a fitness method relating to my physical condition, but afterwards I found that it was not so. I tried to learn Tai Chi, qigong and yoga - however, they were not what I wanted. After attending the Falun Gong class once, I immediately realised that this was what I had been looking for.”
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