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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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• EFGIC: International Rescue Committee Publicises Names of Over 100 Loved Ones from 16 Countries Imprisoned in China

  2002-12-17
  “The persecution of Falun Gong has had a far-reaching impact around the world ever since the persecution began in 1999. The Global Rescue estimates that in addition to the family and friends in China, over 150 overseas practitioners have been arrested and incarcerated for appealing for Falun Gong in China. At least one third are non-Chinese citizens of various countries.” - Dr. Haiying He
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• International Petition to Human Rights Groups, the UK Government and the Chinese Authorities

  2002-12-17
  The following text is from a petition calling for the urgent rescue of a Falun Dafa practitioner who is currently being persecuted in China. Her fiance is a PhD student at UMIST in Manchester, England.
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• AFP: Falungong urges US to appeal to China for [practitioners'] release

  2002-12-17
  'The Falungong spiritual group has called on the United States to urge China during human rights talks next week to release more than 100 jailed adherents. The jailed Falungong [practitioners] have relatives living in 16 countries, including the United States, a statement from Falungong's [information center] in New York said.'
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