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• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local Falun Gong followers have message for China leader

  2002-10-18
  thousands of ...Falun Gong [practitioners will be] in Texas next week when Chinese President Jiang Zemin visits Bush...[they] plan to call attention to the Chinese government's three-year crackdown on the spiritual practice
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• The Daily Texan: Artist hopes to raise awareness

  2002-10-18
  In 1996, Cuiying suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis that inhibited her from painting. A year later, she was introduced to Falun Gong and her arthritis disappeared completely. She attributes it to the exercise and meditation..."Soon after I started practicing Falun Gong, [the arthritis] went away. I could paint again."
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• Austria: Practitioners Hold a Parade Entitled “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance---Source of Peace”

  2002-10-17
  On October 12, 2002, Falun Dafa practitioners from Austria held a parade and an information day with the theme of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance --- Source of Peace” at the City of Graz.
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• My Second Solemn Statement by Zhao Ming

  2002-10-17
  "I hereby make a solemn statement again, that any documents I signed during the period of forced labour in the Tuanhe labour Camp, that are against the cultivation requirements of Falun Gong, were the product of continuous sleep deprivation and torture with high voltage electric batons, and they are against my will. I declare that all of them are void...From now on I will clarify the truth of Falun Gong with double the effort."
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• BBC Monitoring: Hong Kong grants permission for Falun Gong show

  2002-10-17
  The government has granted permission for Falun Gong [practitioners] to hold a variety show at the Tsuen Wan and Tuen Mun town halls despite repeated applications from the group being rejected since last year. They have also been allowed to hold a photo exhibition at one of the venues.
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• SCMP: Regina Ip slugs it out with critics at rowdy forum

  2002-10-17
  Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was drawn into a [heated discussion] yesterday at a forum on the proposed anti-subversion law, during which she endured a 90-minute barrage of criticism.
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• The Standard: University Librarians In Subversion Law Plea

  2002-10-17
  [If Article 23 were passed] police [would] be granted the power to enter and search libraries if they are suspected to have publications which are seen as seditious. Librarians fear this may infringe academic freedom and the freedom of information.
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• Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong plans Texas protest

  2002-10-17
  About 50 Falun Gong [practitioners] demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy on Monday plan to carry their protest to Texas next week for President Bush's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
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• AFP (Agence France-Presse): China's Jiang to visit Chicago, Houston, San Francisco on US trip

  2002-10-17
  Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit the US cities of Chicago, Houston and San Francisco as well as President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on a trip from next week, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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• Poland: Week Long Vigil Held in Front of the Chinese Embassy

  2002-10-16
  At the start of the vigil, the weather changed and became quite stormy. But despite this, practitioners remained resolute. It was this resilience and pure heart that touched the passers-by.
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• France Digipresse: Zhu Rongji Faces Human Rights Issue in Paris

  2002-10-16
  "..What Zhao Ming has gone through is quite different to what any other students of his age have gone through. Solely for his faith [in Falun Dafa], he was tormented by cruel torture in a labor camp in China."
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• South China Morning Post: Draconian measures threaten HK freedoms

  2002-10-16
  Margaret Ng, a legislator representing the legal profession in Hong Kong, wrote in the SCMP, "A careful reading of the consultation paper reveals numerous draconian measures and serious pitfalls. These proposals surrender to the central authorities a fundamentally important part of the autonomy provided under the Basic Law." She supports the call for a white bill for further consultation.
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• Ireland: Falun Gong practitioner’s letter to the Ukraine Ministry of Education

  2002-10-15
  But there are deeper benefits, which I have come to experience. I have found that by applying the principles of Falun Gong; Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, students come to have a respect for my moral standpoint and this then sets them a standard by which they must adhere to in my class.
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• SCMP: Article 23: let us debate the language of the law (Excerpt)

  2002-10-15
  The proposed legislation states; "we should defer to the decision of the central authorities based on the comprehensive information it possesses". [...]That means if the Chinese government proscribes Falun Gong on national security grounds, Hong Kong will follow suit, since Beijing knows best what is a threat to its national security.
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• Catholic News Service: President Bush urged to press China on religious, human rights

  2002-10-15
  A coalition of human and religious rights advocates called on President Bush to make human rights a top agenda item in meetings with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in late October.
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