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• Ireland: Resident Calls for the Rescue of Her Sister and Two Friends.

  2002-12-13
  Ms. Dai Dongxue, a Dublin resident today called for help to free her sister Dai Xialing from Jinan Labour Camp in China; "My sister Xialing has been imprisoned simply because of her belief...I do not want to see my sister die in a labour camp."
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• Geneva Home Information (GHI): Human Rights in China - Falun Gong: the persecution continues

  2002-12-13
  'Over 100,000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been sent to labour camps...The persecution has reached unbelievable proportions. According to the Swiss Falun Gong Association, millions of Chinese practitioners, albeit in good physical and mental health, have been committed to psychiatric hospitals.'
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• AFP (Agence France-Press): Hong Kong security law jeopardises freedoms

  2002-12-13
  'At risk are the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; the right to freedom of expression; and the right to peaceful assembly and to freedom of association, the London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International said in a statement. The Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Reporters Without Borders) and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also both warned that the proposed legislation would restrict the freedom of journalists.'
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• Far East Economic Review: HONG KONG: Business: The Biggest Victim

  2002-12-13
  'Moves to outlaw sedition and subversion have generated a storm of protest. Even bankers and businessmen are criticizing proposals that may end Hong Kong's freedoms and change the way that business is done.'
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• Radio Free Asia: Hong Kong Bar Association Claims Proposal to Implement Article 23 Is Against International Human Rights Regulations

  2002-12-13
  'The International Human Rights Organization and the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor joined together to contact the United Nations Human Rights Affairs Office in writing, requesting a show of concern about the issue of implementing Article 23 of the Basic Law in Hong Kong.'
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• UK: Practitioners attend an Open Day at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  2002-12-12
  On 10th December 2002, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office held an Open Day to mark International Human Rights Day. A small group of Falun Gong practitioners visited the Open Day in order to raise the awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and to thank MPs in the Foreign Office for all their ongoing support and hard work in raising the issue of human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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• Poland: Practitioners Participate in Human Rights Film Festival

  2002-12-12
  From 6th to 8th of December in Warsaw, Poland, practitioners from the Ukraine, Sweden, USA and Poland took part in various activities. We held several peaceful appeals at the Chinese embassy, distributed materials in downtown Warsaw and manned an information booth during the International Human Rights Film Festival hosted by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
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• Introducing Falun Dafa in Monaco - Part 2 (photo)

  2002-12-12
  On November 30, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France introduced Dafa to the passersby at Albert I Pier. A major newspaper sent a reporter to cover the event and published a positive article about Falun Gong the next day. Many people got to learn the truth about Jiang Zemin's ruthless persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Israeli and German Practitioners Work Together to Help Rescue Xiong Wei

  2002-12-12
  From December 6 to 8, Israeli and German practitioners protested the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong for 58 straight hours outside of the Chinese Embassy and called for the release of practitioner Xiong Wei.
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• Apple Daily: Lawyers Take to the Streets to Distribute Flyers Against Article 23 (Excerpt)

  2002-12-12
  Many well-known lawyers of Hong Kong come to Mong Kok to distribute flyers against Article 23 in the cold and rain
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• Reuters Reports that United States and Britain Express Concerns Over Hong Kong's Proposed Subversion Law [Excerpt]

  2002-12-12
  'Hong Kong's government is aiming to enact by July a tough anti-subversion law...But the issue has inflamed rights activists and legal circles, which worry the law may roll back civil liberties and be exploited by authorities to target anyone they did not like.'
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• Apple Daily Reports that Medium and Small Enterprises Are Expressing Concern that Article 23 Will Have a Negative Effect on Business (Photo)

  2002-12-12
  Apple Daily reported on December 6 that after foreign merchants and foreign capital banks openly expressed their concerns about the enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law, even the chamber of commerce for medium and small enterprises, which previously supported the government with respect to this legislation, also expressed concern that the legislation would negatively affect the business environment.
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• BBC Monitoring: China: Complaint lodged in France against Vice-Premier Li Lanqing

  2002-12-12
  'A complaint has been lodged in France by Belgian and French nationals in the name of universal competence against Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing during a visit [of Li Lanqing to France].'
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• UK: International Human Rights Day in London

  2002-12-11
  The practitioners paraded through London city centre and headed towards Chinatown. They carried banners and handed out materials telling people that over 500 innocent practitioners have died at the hands of Jiang's regime whilst millions have been tortured, beaten, brainwashed and illegally imprisoned for being good people.
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• Sweden: International Human Rights Day in Gothenburg

  2002-12-11
  On this freezing cold December evening, Dafa practitioners gathered in the heart of Gothenburg city to tell people about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.T hey wanted everyone in the city to know that Jiang’s regime have killed hundreds of innocent Chinese practitioners just because they want to be good people.
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