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• Reuters: Panel urges active US role on China human rights

  2002-10-03
  In its first report, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China took Chinese leaders to task for human rights abuses..."China's leaders still do not respect fundamental international standards on many rights for the Chinese people," the commission said...the panel highlighted Beijing's suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual group.
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• Denmark: Dafa Practitioners’ Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions during the Asian Cultural Festival

  2002-10-03
  With rich and colourful banners as the background and accompanied by the song “Falun Dafa is good”, practitioners gracefully performed different dances. Their beautiful performance and pure and righteous energy field attracted more and more people.
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• South China Morning Post: Multinationals Making a Mint from China’s Great Firewall

  2002-10-03
  "There is a growing trend towards holding multinational corporations accountable for any degree of complicity with repressive governments in human-rights abuses...The United Nations, meanwhile, is exploring ways to bring corporations under the same umbrella of human-rights laws that apply to states."
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• Association for Asian research: Beijing's think-tanks: China re-enters a period of social instability

  2002-10-03
  "Three 40-something scholars with substantial influence over the Chinese leadership have co-authored their newest report on China’s social dilemma [..] entitled “Social Instability behind the Economic Prosperity"[..]. In it, they send their most serious warning yet to the Chinese leadership that its society has entered into a period of instability wherein terrible turmoil and crisis loom."
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• Ha’aretz (a daily newspaper in Israel): Members of Falun Gong protest in Tel Aviv

  2002-10-03
  Falun Gong practitioners protesting yesterday outside the Chinese Embassy in Tel Aviv against the Chinese government's crack down on the meditation movement.
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• UK: Photos from the Edinburgh Festival Parade

  2002-10-02
  These are some photos taken during the 2002 Queen's Jubilee Festival Cavalcade which opened the Edinburgh Arts Festival, the World's largest performing arts festival.
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• Politiken (Danish newspaper): Censorship at Danish festival

  2002-10-02
  "“It is reprehensible and very non-Danish, if the Chinese authorities have taken part in the censorship of a Danish cultural festival”, says Peter Skaarup, The legal spokesman of The Danish Peoples Party, who has asked the Foreign Minister for a statement of the Chinese authorities’ role in the case."
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• Financial Times: National security move makes it hard for HK to claim it is business as usual

  2002-10-02
  "Hong Kong, a city with civil liberties enshrined in its post-colonial constitution, stands poised to enact laws on sedition and subversion that would in many cases allow its Communist sovereign, which has been often- criticised on civil liberties grounds, to define what sort of behaviour crosses the line."
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• Reuters: Hong Kong activists protest China's violation of rights [Excerpt]

  2002-10-02
  "The planned law, unveiled last week, has raised concerns it could be used against anyone whom China or Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government finds objectionable, such as political dissidents and Falun Gong adherents. "This would allow a dictator to impose his own will on the government and people, and spread the human rights abuses, persecution of Falun Gong and other peaceful groups to Hong Kong,""
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• Time Magazine: Subverting Hong Kong's Autonomy

  2002-10-02
  "It's taken a few years, but now Beijing has what it wants: complete control."
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• Berlingske Tidende (Danish newspaper): Meditation against Persecution

  2002-10-02
  “We are not on a confrontation course, but we will use our democratic rights to demonstrate. The Danish authorities have been pressed by the Chinese embassy, and for that reason we will not move,”
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• Jyllands-Posten (Danish newspaper): Demonstrations crawled along through the city

  2002-10-02
  "With great dignity and complete peacefulness, the Falun Gong [practitioners] from Denmark, as well as from others countries including China, Poland, Germany, Holland and France, turned the attention to the suppression the movement is exposed to in China."
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• International Herald Tribune: China's 'Great Firewall' limits Internet

  2002-10-02
  E-mail sent containing sensitive words such as 'Falun Gong,' for example, have been blocked from being downloaded. In some users' experience, all subsequent e-mail messages in their accounts remained blocked until the offending e-mail was deleted via a Web-based e-mail system.
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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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