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• France: MP and former Cabinet Member Jack Lang Expresses His Full Support to Falun Gong

  2002-10-01
  Mr. Lang met Falun Gong practitioners who were promoting Dafa in front of the Bastille Opera House and made the statement. They expressed sincere appreciation for Mr. Lang’s righteous actions. He said humbly that it was the least he could do. He felt very relieved that Zhao Ming eventually regained his freedom.
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• Sweden: Family Gathering in Biskopsgarden - Long Lasting Impressions of Dafa Practitioners' Peaceful Behaviour

  2002-10-01
  Falun Gong practitioners were invited to take part in a health and family gathering in Biskopsgarden, a suburb of Gothenburg.
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• Falun Gong Association (UK) Writes to Japanese Prime Minister

  2002-10-01
  I understand that you will be visiting China soon and would like to take this opportunity to respectfully request your help in securing the release of Falun Gong practitioner Mrs. Yoko Kaneko, who has been incarcerated in a labour re-education camp in China for exercising her basic rights of freedom of speech and belief.
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• Swedish Falun Dafa Association Writes to the Japanese Prime Minister

  2002-10-01
  In May 24 2002, the Beijing police arrested Yoko, together with two other Japanese Falun Gong practitioners, when they were distributing leaflets appealing for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong...Their actions were actually noble and harmless to everybody. Out of compassion, they left the comfort of their homes attempting to help the thousands of innocent men, women and children who are unjustly persecuted in China.
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• Financial Times: LEADER - Securing Hong Kong - Proposed new legislation could threaten the city's genius

  2002-10-01
  "When the British government handed Hong Kong back to China a little over five years ago it promised to do everything possible to help preserve the city's civil liberties. Now is the time for London to step in to fulfil this promise."
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• BBC: China: Man arrested in Shandong over Falun Gong broadcasts

  2002-10-01
  "Public Security officials in Yantai city arrested Song Tao, of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, on 19 July, according to the Jinan-based Qilu Evening News. Song was accused of [tapping into] a cable television channel in Jiamusi and beaming footage of the banned group on 20 April."
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• Taipei Times (Taiwan): MAC says Beijing kept it in the dark (Excerpt)

  2002-10-01
  "Chang Ching-his, the Falun Gong's branch leader in Taiwan and a professor of economics at National Taiwan University, has denied Beijing's accusations that Taiwan-based members of the movement were responsible for interfering with the satellite signals."
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• The Associated Press: China Holds Falun Gong Follower Suspected of Planning [Interception of] Cable TV Broadcas

  2002-10-01
  "Over the last six months, Falun Gong sympathizers have repeatedly [tapped] into local television systems to show videos protesting Beijing's 3-year-old crackdown on the spiritual movement."
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• Iceland: Photo and Chinese Painting Exhibitions Receive Warm Response from Icelandic Citizens and Support from Government Officials

  2002-09-30
  On the opening day, an Icelandic national TV station reported on the exhibitions during their evening news program. The Chinese Embassy repeatedly pressured the Icelandic authorities to remove the exhibitions. A city official resolutely stated, “No single photo should be taken down. It is Iceland, not China!”
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• France: Practitioners Reveal the Facts about Dafa in the Streets of Paris

  2002-09-30
  Practitioners in Paris came to the centre of the city to demonstrate exercises and clarify the truth about Dafa. They set up exhibition boards and used a projector to show videos which attracted the passing pedestrians.
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• Central News Agency (Taiwan): The Courts and Media in China Are Accomplices in the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2002-09-30
  "Ever since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime began the persecution of this practice, which has attracted tens of millions of people, the media in China have been used to demonize Falun Gong. Courts also do not uphold justice when trying and sentencing Falun Gong cases. The media and the courts in China have become accomplices of Jiang's government in the persecution of Falun Gong."
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• Irish Practitioner's Letter to The Prime Minister of Japan, The Honourable Junichiro Koizumi

  2002-09-30
  "We all seek truth throughout our lives, but quite often there is no one there to help us find it. The appeals in China offer a kind of truth that breaks through the propaganda used against Falun Gong. Our hope [is] to bring the facts of the persecution to millions of Chinese people..."
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• Ukraine: Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Invited to Attend a Local Newspaper’s Celebration Parade

  2002-09-29
  The celebration began with a parade across the entire city ending at the central park. Although the Chinese Embassy put pressure on all of the Ukrainian media, after one year of of learning about Dafa and meeting the practitioners, the reporters were very supportive.
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• In These Times (Online publication): Shanghai Surprise

  2002-09-29
  "China has taken the battle against the Falun Gong outside its borders. Beijing convinced Cambodia to deport two Falun Gong practitioners who had fled to Phnom Penh and has used its consulates in America to harass Falun Gong adherents. One Falun Gong follower in Washington claims that Chinese agents have recorded his private conversations and then left the recordings on his answering machine to intimidate him. Beijing also may have influenced the stance of Hong Kong’s government and media toward Falun Gong."
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• AFP: Hong Kong's proposed anti-subversion law stokes concern

  2002-09-29
  Kan Hung-cheung, a spokesman for the Falungong spiritual group which is banned in China but legal in Hong Kong, slammed the proposed legislation as being part of a "plot" by Chinese president Jiang Zemin "to expand the persecution of the group." "No matter how the government explains it, it is targetting us," said Kan.
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