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  • Dow Jones International News: CHINA WATCH: Taiwan's Falun Leader Frets China Collapse

    "Last month, Beijing hurled more accusations against the Falun Gong. China alleged a Taiwan-based broadcast outfit was used by Falun Gong to hack into China's top television satellite systems. Taiwan officials are looking into the matter, but one said such possibilities are "farfetched.""
  • Denmark: Chinese Agents Fail in their Attempts to Disrupt Falun Gong Press Conference

    From September 18th through the 24th, governments from around the world participated in a series of international conferences that took place in Copenhagen. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also held many activities. Falun Gong held a press conference on the afternoon of September 21st. Agents of Jiang's regime tried their hardest to ruin the conference by shouting and causing trouble.
  • Taipei Times (Taiwan): Letters - The Wrong Side of History

    "Nobody knows when or how it will come to an end, but it most certainly will. The PRC's continued suppression of the Falun Gong and its ethnic minorities, its censorship of the Internet and its lies will eventually prove too much for Beijing to bear."
  • China Post: U.S. report slams PRC human rights record

    Government controls on the dissemination of information also remains "strict," states the report. While reporting of official corruption has been permitted as part of the government's attempt to crack down on corruption, direct criticism of the Communist Party is prohibited. Limits are imposed on topics deemed sensitive, including workers' protests, rural unrest, Taiwan independence, Falun Gong, corruption at high levels and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
  • Daily Texan: Falun Gong practitioners ask President for assistance (Photo)

    Jane Zhizhen Dai and her 2-year-old daughter, Fadu, were left behind when her husband, Chenyong, was arrested, tortured and eventually killed. She now travels worldwide to tell her story. "I'm only one of thousands of families who suffer, and they don't have a chance to speak for themselves. I speak for them from my heart," Dai said.
  • Holland: Taiwanese and Dutch Practitioners Receive Great Media Coverage as they Reveal the Truth about Falun Dafa

    Taiwanese practitioners visited Holland for three days to assist the Dutch practitioners in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. The next day a beautiful picture was published on the front page of a regional newspaper. Several other newspapers also published a picture. In the centre of the picture was a badge that read, “I support Falun Dafa”.
  • France: Practitioners in France Host Mid-Autumn Festival Party in the Paris Chinese Culture and Education Centre

    On September 29 2002, during the traditional Chinese mid-Autumn Festival celebration, the French Falun Dafa Association hosted a celebration party at the Paris Chinese Culture and Education Center. Over 200 guests from all walks of society came to the event.
  • Report From Falun Gong - Iceland Dialogue Committee (Part III)

    In addition to setting a precedent for future dialogues between Falun Gong practitioners and a government, these practitioners also demonstrated their great kindness and steadfast belief. At the same time, practitioners took advantage of the dialogue to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to more Icelandic people, government officials and non-governmental organisations.
  • Globe and Mail: China stifling dissent on Internet

    "BEIJING -- The illicit e-mail seemed tantalizingly close, glowing quietly in a Hotmail inbox in Beijing. But a click on it produces nothing except an ominous beep and an error message. And then the entire inbox seizes up, freezing helplessly until the computer is rebooted."
  • Taipei Times: MAC (Mainland Affairs Council) hopes Hong Kong can retain its freedoms

    "The anti-sedition legislation has sparked concern about freedom of speech since the power to interpret the law is vested in the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress...Some have said that, under such laws, China might designate Falun Gong as a national security threat. The spiritual group is still legal in Hong Kong."
  • Letter Sent to UK Dignitaries by European Friends of Falun Gong

    "If Article 23 becomes law, it would mean the complete end of the Hong Kong people’s freedoms of speech, belief and expression. The adoption of an anti-subversion law based on Article 23 will do nothing more than extend the ability of Jiang Zemin’s regime to violate human rights as well as persecute Falun Gong and other peaceful democratic groups in Hong Kong."
  • Taipei Times: Time to protest HK's subversion law is now

    "The document further stipulates that the secretary for security has the power to outlaw Hong Kong groups affiliated with "proscribed organizations" in China that "endanger national security," or those which "organize or support the activities of proscribed organizations." This article is aimed at the Falun Gong."
  • Het Parool (Dutch newspaper): Falun Gong exercises take grandmother (85) to prison

    "Practitioners say they do not form an organisation or political movement. Neither is it a religion. It’s free and it makes you feel better. What practitioners of Falun Gong stand for are three fundamental values: truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. What can be wrong about that? asks Wang Xianghe to herself at the Dam, where a demonstration was being held last Sunday. “We want to become good people. Happier and more healthy.”"
  • Holland: Amsterdam Local television broadcasts program about persecuted Dutch-Chinese family

    On Friday the 4th of October, Salto 2, an Amsterdam local television station, broadcasted a 30-minute documentary about the Dutch-Chinese family Warnaar-Wang. Almost all members of the family practise Falun Gong. The family members that live in China are victims of the severe and inhumane persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Slovakia: Promoting Falun Gong in the Major Cities of the East

    Between the 26th and 29th September 2002, Falun Gong was promoted in a few cities in Eastern Slovakia. To begin with, the practitioners from Slovakia and Czech republic gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Bratislava to peacefully appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in China.