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• UK Practitioners Spread Falun Dafa at Modern Arts Celebration Day in Liverpool (Photos)

  2002-10-24
  The dancing group was invited to give performances at the most famous hotel in Liverpool. We performed the Fan Dance and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises.
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• 1200 Falun Gong Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Chicago; Seven Practitioners Launch Lawsuit Against Chinese Communist Party Chief for State Terrorism

  2002-10-24
  The day before the Chinese Communist Party head came to Chicago, about 1200 Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world gathered in Chicago for large scale exercises and a press conference to protest the regime's persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Battalion (Texas A&M University): Group to protest Chinese president's visit

  2002-10-24
  "Falun Gong members will protest Thursday in front of the Presidential Conference Centre from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in a designated free speech area, McKinney said. [The visiting dictator] is slated to speak at 11:15 a.m. "We've already worked it out with the police how this protest is going to work," Nappi said. "We're going to meditate and then raise a sign. We want the president to see us.""
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• Press Release: Citizens from Six Countries Submit Legal Case Against Chinese Leader to United Nations

  2002-10-23
  Violation of all 33 UN Human Rights Declarations CitedPlaintiffs include one Hong Kong man and one Beijing man currently in Chinese Custody
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• Germany: Falun Dafa Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Front of the Chinese Consulate in Munich

  2002-10-23
  On October 19th, the dark clouds densely covered the whole of Munich and the rain was cold. But when Dafa practitioners unfolded the Dafa banner reading, “Falun Dafa” in front of the consulate, the sky above the consulate began to clear up.
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• France: Radio Station Report on Meeting Between Bush and Jiang in Texas

  2002-10-23
  "President Bush might readdress the importance of respect for the religious freedoms, which mainly refers to issues on Falun Gong. A latest report from US Department of State mentioned China’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners several times.”
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• Press Release: Jiang's Hard-line Arrives in Houston

  2002-10-23
  -Practitioners' Hotel Reservations Cancelled-"Welcome Team" Requires Participants to Surrender Their First Amendment Rights-Jiang's Agents Arrive Early to Disseminate Propaganda-Want to Report in the U.S.? Please Apply at the Chinese Consulate
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• Voice of America: Falun Gong Activists Protest Chinese President's Visit to Chicago

  2002-10-23
  "China's President Jiang Zemin is stopping in Chicago Tuesday on his way to meet with President Bush in Texas. Human rights activists are making sure China's poor human rights record is on the summit's agenda."
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• Battalion (Texas): A poorly behaved guest - Chinese president trying to bully the United States

  2002-10-23
  "China's behavior in regard to human rights is appalling..Why does America need enemies when it has friends like China? America and President Bush should not reward dictators the ilk of Jiang Zemin with improved trade status, the lifting of sanctions, or barbecues in Crawford. America should return to the era of recognizing and defending democracy, not just those in power. Bush should concede nothing to Zemin."
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• Reuters: Photo Reports

  2002-10-23
  "About 750 protesters representing several countries held a demonstration in the Chicago Loop, protesting Zemin's treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China."
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• Reuters: Bush Urged to Press China's Jiang on Rights

  2002-10-23
  "Human rights groups urged President Bush Tuesday to press Chinese President Jiang Zemin to free political prisoners and curb abuses against a Muslim ethnic group when the leaders meet in Texas this week. A group of followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, banned in China since 1999, also said they were taking legal action against Jiang through the United Nations for crimes committed during a crackdown on their faith."
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• Houston Chronicle: Hotel cancels Falun Gong group's reservations

  2002-10-23
  "Falun Gong members Anna Chang, left, and Karen Hong discuss cancelled hotel reservations with a desk clerk Monday at the Homestead Studio Suites, next to the hotel where the Chinese president will stay."
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• Wall Street Journal: China's Judicial Killing Machine

  2002-10-23
  "Widespread recourse to the death penalty in China reflects a regime that has lost the ability to govern. The Chinese Communist Party came to power through violence (especially within its own ranks) and has maintained it in the same way..The party's continued failure to address society's needs rather than crush them -- seen most starkly in the crackdown on the Falun Gong [spiritual group] -- is creating resentment and alienation across the country."
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• South China Morning Post: Bishop takes the helm and asks for God's help

  2002-10-23
  "Bishop Zen's succession has raised concerns over the sometimes stormy relationship between the Church and the SAR government. He has already clashed with the authorities on controversial issues such as the Falun Gong spiritual group, and right of abode. Last month the bishop criticised the proposed anti-subversion law."
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• UK: Telling People the Facts About Dafa in Cambridge City Centre

  2002-10-22
  A large group of children saw pictures of the persecuted practitioners in China and were very shocked and upset by Jiang’s persecution. They all signed their names on the petition and immediately asked to learn the Falun Gong exercises. One practitioner taught them the exercises and they all left very happy.
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