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• European Activities Highlighting Article 23 and the Loss of Freedom in Hong Kong

  2002-12-19
  The President of the Human Rights association criticised the Hong Kong government for its proposed "anti-subversion law" and elaborated on the legislation's harmful effects on Hong Kong's freedom and democracy.
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• New Zürich Newspaper (Switzerland): Protests in Hong Kong against Anti-Subversion Law

  2002-12-19
  'Critics charge that such a law will put in place Mainland Chinese conditions in Hong Kong and would furthermore undermine one of Hong Kong’s most-treasured prerogatives, the tradition of British prescriptive law and judicial system.'
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• Germany: Parade to Appeal Against Article 23 and Request for Help to Rescue our Family Members

  2002-12-18
  The practitioners hoped to tell people about the Jiang regime’s attempts to spread its terror tactics to Hong Kong by enforcing the Article 23 legislation. They also told the public about their friends and family members who are imprisoned in labour camps and detention centres in China, and asked for help to have them freed.
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• Switzerland: Falun Dafa at a Health Exhibition in Bern

  2002-12-18
  Many people were attracted by the peaceful and compassionate Dafa music. A TV played the exercise instruction video, while practitioners demonstrated the exercises and handed out information on Falun Gong.
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• UK: Parliamentarians Raised Serious Concerns Over Article 23 in a House of Lords Session

  2002-12-18
  “My Lords, do we not have a continuing obligation under the Sino-British Joint Declaration to ensure that legislation passed in the Hong Kong SAR is compatible with the international covenants and thus with the Basic Law? Will the Government therefore suggest to the Hong Kong SAR that the draft legislation be submitted for an opinion to the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva before it is laid before the legislature?”
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• Sueddeutsche Zeitung (German newspaper): Hong Kong pushes for Anti-Subversion Law – Freedom before the Fall

  2002-12-18
  Anson Chan, Hong Kong's previous second in command wrote that a free society and an independent and respected justice system are “at the heart of Hong Kong’s prior and future success...I can think of no other laws that would have such incisive consequences, not only for our freedom, rights and our lifestyle, but also for our survival as a huge financial and service sector centrum.”
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• Hong Kong Imail: Thousands protest at subversion law

  2002-12-18
  'Rally organizer Civil Human Rights Front estimated about 60,000 people from a broad spectrum of society - clerics, lawyers, civil servants, educators, journalists, artists, students and Falun Gong practitioners - joined in what was believed to be the biggest protest since the Hanover.'
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• Reuters: U.S. pushes China on human rights and democracy

  2002-12-18
  'U.S. rights envoy Lorne Craner began two days of high-level talks with Chinese officials on Monday in which he was expected to press Beijing to free political prisoners and increase religious freedoms.'
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• Italy: Turin Citizens Happy to Learn Falun Dafa

  2002-12-17
  
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• Germany: Parade on International Human Rights Day Asking for Help to Rescue Ms. Xiong Wei

  2002-12-17
  Despite the cold weather, many practitioners went to Bremen to tell people the facts of this persecution and continue in their efforts to rescue Xiong Wei. The four-hour parade ended with practitioners handing a letter to the Mayor who promised to help them find justice for the practitioners in China.
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• France: Paris Public Welfare Event Invites Falun Dafa Practitioners to Demonstrate Exercises

  2002-12-17
  French practitioners were invited to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises at the Telethon Public Welfare event. The organisers from the city government strongly supported the activity and it helped many people see the true nature of the Jiang regime's persecution in China.
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• EFIC Press Release: Hong Kong’s Ominous “Anti-Subversion” Law Faces Broad-based Opposition

  2002-12-17
  it is the ill-defined nature of Article 23 that is most worrying. The government waited five years before acting in a real hurry. Despite circulating vague proposals, it has issued no formal “white paper” with the exact language of the draft laws.
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• UK: Shadow Foreign Secretary is "pressing the Hong Kong authorities very strongly to take seriously all views expressed"

  2002-12-17
  A senior Conservative Party MP was contacted by UK Falun Gong practitioners regarding their concerns about the Article 23 legislation. He replied that he and his colleagues and his colleagues "saw the problems at first hand during a recent visit to Hong Kong. They are pressing the Hong Kong authorities very strongly to take seriously all views expressed."
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• Press Release - IGFM (Austria): China’s Iron Grip Toward Hong Kong

  2002-12-17
  'In reality, [Article 23] translates into transplanting catastrophic human rights abuses, which are the norm in Mainland China, on to Hong Kong soil. There is still time to increase international pressure and loosen China’s iron grip on Hong Kong, because the only thing China...respects and fears most is pressure from and shunning by the international community.'
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• South China Morning Post: Public's feelings of mistrust deepen over Article 23

  2002-12-17
  'The Hong Kong Transition Project has noted a marked change in public opinion. In its latest survey, published on Friday, it found the number of people with fears about their personal freedoms had doubled following the publication of the proposals.'
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